Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Came out; 2023
Time; 2 hours 4 minutes
Watched: Disney Plus
Rating; PG-13 for violence/action and language
IMDB Rating; 6.2/10
Caution; Spoiler Alert
Staring.
Paul Rudd as Scott Lang/Ant-Man
Evangeline Lilly as Hope Van Dyne/The Wasp
Michael Douglas as Dr. Hank Pym
Michelle Pfeifer as Janet Van Dyne
Jonathan Majors as Kang the Conqueror
Kathryn Newton as Cassie Lang
Bill Murray as Lord Krylar
Corey Stoll as M.O.D.O.K.
Katy M O'Brian as Jentorra
Story Line.
When Scott Lang and Hope van Dyne, along with Hope's parents, Hank Pym and Janet van Dyne, and Scott's daughter, Cassie, are accidentally sent to the Quantum Realm, they soon find themselves exploring the Realm, interacting with strange new creatures.
Thoughts:
This wasn't my favorite; it was missing something. I can't quit put my finger on what.
The story line was right on with the movie title. It all made sense in the series but there just wasn't something “off” with it.
CAUTION; Major Spoiler Alert
During
her days of entrapment in the Quantum Realm, Janet van Dyne
encounters Kang. In the present day after the Battle of Earth, Scott
Lang has become a successful memoirist and has been living happily
with his girlfriend Hope van Dyne. Lang's now teenage daughter Cassie
has become an activist whose activities result in Lang bailing her
out of jail.
While visiting Hope's parents, Hank Pym and
Janet, Cassie reveals that she has been working on a device that can
make contact with the Quantum Realm. Upon learning of this, Janet
panics and tries to shut off the device, but the message is received,
resulting in a portal that opens and pulls the five of them into the
Quantum Realm. Scott and Cassie are found by natives who are
rebelling against their ruler, while Hope, Janet, and Pym explore a
sprawling city to get answers.
Hope, Janet and Hank meet with
Lord Krylar, a former ally of Janet's, who reveals that things have
changed since she left, and that he is now working for Kang, who is
now the realm's ruler. After an intense showdown, the three are
forced to flee and steal his ship. The Langs are told by the rebel's
leader Jentorra that Janet's involvement with Kang is indirectly
responsible for his uprising, they soon come under attack by Kang's
forces, consisting of robotic subordinates led by M.O.D.O.K., who is
revealed to be Darren Cross, having survived his apparent death at
Lang's hands.
The Langs are taken to Kang, who demands that
Scott help get his power core back or else he will kill Cassie. Lang
is taken to the core's location and shrinks down. He is nearly
drowned in a sea of variants of himself, but Hope arrives and helps
him acquire the power core. However, Kang reneges on the deal,
capturing Janet and destroying her ship with Hank on it.
After
being rescued by his ants, who were also pulled into the Quantum
Realm, rapidly evolved, and became hyper-intelligent, Pym helps Lang
and Hope as they make their way to Kang. Still imprisoned, Cassie
rescues Jentorra and they commence an uprising against Kang and his
army. During the fight, Cassie appeals to Cross' character, which
convinces him to turn sides and fight Kang, though at the cost of his
life.
Janet fixes the power core as she, Pym, Hope, and Cassie
jump through a portal home, but Kang attacks Scott, nearly beating
him into submission, until Hope returns, and, together with Scott,
they destroy the power core with a combination of Pym Particles and
knock Kang into it, consuming him into oblivion. Cassie reopens the
portal on her end for Scott and Hope to return home.
As Scott
happily resumes his life, he begins to rethink what he was told about
Kang's death being the start of something terrible happening but
brushes it off.
In a mid-credits scene: numerous variants of
Kang led by Immortus, commiserate the death of one of their own and
start planning their Multiversal uprising.
In a post-credits
scene: Loki and Mobius M. Mobius encounter another Kang variant,
named Victor Timely, on Earth in the 1940s.
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