2023 - ANT-MAN AND WASP QUANTUMANIA, been down this road before

Basically a very unsatisfying film but taking shots at this film is just way to easy.  This Ant-Man film is the third in the series and I believe it is supposed to be the start of another phase of the Marvel movie universe series whatever that is.

This time Ant-Man and the gang get hurtled back to somewhere called the Quantum Realm where they meet some bad guy called Kang. Kang is the the dictator of this place and is obviously not a nice guy.  Kang is also another version of the Thanos character from the earlier Marvel movies that focused on the Avengers.  

Ant-Man and his girlfriend the Wasp along with Ant-Man's daughter and the Wasp's father and mother help ferment an uprising against Kang.  The ending of the film is supposed to prepare the viewer for more Kang duplicates in what is going to be another big showdown of the good guys vs the bad guys. 

 

The whole film frankly has a been there done that feel to it.  You know from the start the direction the film will take and you kind of sit in a stupor waiting for this overlong turkey to come to an end.  I also hate to say it but the cast is beginning to look a little long in the tooth.   It seems that Ant-Man and the gang should be settling down into more stable occupations and getting their 401-K's in order.

  

There has been criticism of the special effects in this film but they seem fine to me.  What the film really lacks is humor which was a selling point in the first two films in this series.  The film's biggest issue is plain old fatigue, the whole film is just tired and boring.

Written by  Jeff Loveness, 124 minutes.