Given the financial results of the film and its reviews, one can very largely consider this Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania as one of the biggest bides of the mcu. With only 48% positive reviews on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoesmany viewers will have openly mocked the film’s catastrophic special effects with the design of MODOK targeted. We didn’t rave more than most of the reviews, even pointing out that Peyton Reed had massacred the treatment of Kang the Conqueror by turning him into a generic villain in his actions, where he was supposed to be for all the succession of the Titan.
In short, Ant Man 3 is ugly, badly written and sends its characters into the background. Hank Pym drags its paw like an old grumpy depressive on each of the planes, Janet keeps playing the mysterious woman who conceals secrets, Cassie Lang only has one facial expression for two hours of movies and kang passively watches an ant man destroy his empire. Arms crossed on his magic chair contemplating his thighs, the new supervillain of Marvel seems to have better things to do than be the big threat teased since the series Loki.
It seems difficult to find a real person responsible for this technical shambles. The fault of Peyton Reed ? VFX artists who haven’t had enough time to polish the special effects? Is this also an error attributable to the staff of Marvel which for some productions now imposes deadlines that are much too hard to meet for special effects managers? If we want to have a semblance of guilty just look at the screenwriter.
The scenario of Ant Man 3 is given to us by Jeff Lovenessthe writer of the series rick and morty. Result: the story of this new Ant Man accumulates very bad lines of dialogue – such as the exchange between MODOK And Cassie on “to be or not to be a loser” and confusing situations as they are anecdotal – like the meeting between Janet and Bill Muray, her quantum ex-boyfriend –. At the microphone of Daily Beast, Jeff Lovenesswho will have the heavy task of signing the screenplay for Avengers: The Kang Dynastyreturned to this bitter failure:
“To be honest, these reviews really took me by surprise. I was a bit at the bottom of the hole, the reviews weren’t good and it shocked me. I’m very proud of what I’ve written for Jonathan Majors and Michelle Pfeiffer. For me, it was really good work, you know? And these returns completely discouraged me, I was very sad. »
He continued by having found, according to him, an original way to transcend the disappointment linked to the bad reviews: Attend a session where everyone laughs at the lame jokes of the film:
“I think we live in a time where we try to label everything so we can all group together on Twitter. And I think we have to take a step back from this way of being a collective fan to appreciate things for ourselves. When I went to see Quantumania, I saw people laughing in the room and I was like, “Damn it! No, the reviews are wrong and I’m right! MODOK is awesome! I’m pretty happy with this movie overall, and I think I’ve learned to roll with the punches this week. And now that I’ve learned that it’s not too bad, I can continue to do things. »
The next installment of the MCU will be the long-awaited Guardians of the Galaxy vol.3 of james gunn which should be, barring great surprise, much better than the latter Ant-Man.