Ant-Man and The Wasp

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Edit Coming 05/18/26

Okay, so we all know what Thanos did at this point. It's really not much of a secret anymore, and if you don't know, please do feel free to exit the rock you've been hiding under for the past couple of months. It was an intense film, so we needed a fun palette cleanser to follow it up with. What more fun can you have with a Marvel franchise than... 'Guardians of the Galaxy'... but certainly still within the fun Marvel vein as opposed to the super serious Marvel vein lies 'Ant-Man'. As one would probably imagine, this takes place before the events of 'Infinity War', and the post credit scene can pretty much be guessed at easily if you've seen 'Infinity War'.

The film opens with a recap of an explanation of what happened to the original Wasp, Janet Van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer). For those who don't recall, basically she had to shrink down to enter the quantum realm in order to get between the molecules of a bomb in order to disarm it. After the events of the first 'Ant-Man', in which Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) figures out a way out of the quantum realm, Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) and Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly) begin work on a device that may be able to allow them into the quantum realm in order to see if Janet is still alive or not.

Scott, on the other hand, finds himself under house arrest, playing the role of amazing father when he gets the chance to spend time with his daughter Cassie (Abby Ryder Fortson). You see, by helping out Cap in 'Civil War', he essentially became a criminal. Hank and Hope even cut ties with him because of how serious things got. However, when Scott seems to have some kind of strange dream about Janet, who he's never met, he contacts Hank about it. One thing leads to another, and the three team up, despite Scott's house arrest, to get into the quantum realm.

As for this big bad villain known as "Ghost", I have to admit that there's a very lackluster aspect to her. She's kinda broken in the sense that she "quantum phases" in and out. Kinda like an appearing/disappearing act that you don't really have control over, and apparently it's kinda painful as well. She's after Pym's tech in order to save herself from eventually getting ripped apart. And though she's not a villain just for the sake of being a villain, she's really just more of an obstacle that stands in the team's way. It ends up being a sort of race.

Anyway, all things considered, it was a nice chunk of stupid, silly fun, but doesn't really compare to the first one. There's just a lot more unbelievable and WTF moments here, whereas the first one did things a bit more subtle. It got silly too, but it didn't go overboard with some of it. This one, I felt at times did.

There's plenty going for this if you just want a bit of fun, because that's kinda exactly what you get. But it's almost TOO fun, if that makes any sense at all. It's more comedy than action, much like the first one, and often times just crosses the line of ridiculousness to where it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. But I suppose that's to be expected when talking about things like the "quantum realm" and such. It's kinda fun, but certainly one of the weaker titles to the MCU. Also, I'd suggest ONLY staying for the mid-credit scene unless you wanna see more of the drumming ant from the trailer.

​3/5

MID-CREDIT SCENE:  A plan to harvest quantum energy to help Ava remain stable is put into action. Lang enters the quantum realm in order to accomplish this. Whilst in the quantum realm, unbeknownst to Lang, Pym, Hope, and Janet become victims of the Snap.

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