Ant-Man Quantumania

The superhero sequel is currently playing in such major territories as Mexico, South Korea, Germany, Brazil and Australia. It debuts in China on Friday. Paul ...

One of the biggest draws of “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” is Jonathan Majors’ supervillain Kang the Conqueror. The original “Ant-Man” in 2015 debuted to just $57 million domestically after earning $6.4 million in Thursday previews. The biggest problem for the film may be word of mouth. Internationally, “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” has opened in more than 40 international markets, earning an estimated $23.8 million in its first two days of release. Critics haven’t been kind to “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” handing it a 49% “rotten” rating on Rotten Tomatoes, a low mark for Marvel. [Paul Rudd](https://variety.com/t/paul-rudd/)’s latest Marvel adventure is expected to bring in $95 million to $100 million domestically in its opening weekend.

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"Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. "Quantumania" is one of only two MCU films to generate a "rotten" rating on the review aggregator. Disney also announced Friday that it is postponing the release of "The Marvels," a film centered on Captain Marvel, Ms. The film had previous been set to debut on July 28. "Quantumania's" Thursday numbers are on pace with 2017's "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. Hype surrounding the big screen debut of Kang the Conqueror (Jonathan Majors) is likely to help drive foot traffic to theaters this weekend.

Marvel's Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, the third entry in the Ant-Man franchise, stars Paul Rudd, Jonathan Majors, Evangeline Lilly, Michelle Pfeiffer, ...

(It’s funny the first two times it eagerly says “holes,” but eventually you start to live in fear of another “holes” line.) The problem isn’t that such bits aren’t funny — they sometimes are — but that they reveal a noxious carelessness beneath the slipshod filmmaking. But it’s all executed with such little commitment (by otherwise talented actors) that the end result is numb alienation, which is probably not a thing you’re supposed to want from a superhero flick. At a time when MCU films seemed to be leaning further toward overarching story lines and portentous mythology (all in an effort to build up to the final Avengers pictures, at least one of which was terrific), it came like a breath of fresh air. The first Ant-Man, one of the high points of the whole Marvel cinematic project, was distinguished by its goofy humor and smaller-scale story. More importantly, it fails to make you feel anything, which is odd since part of the story involves Ant-Man’s desperate attempts to save his daughter, as ostensibly relatable and immediate a character motivation as one can imagine. You keep waiting for the menace or the grandiosity or the vengefulness to ratchet up — we’re told that Kang is a terrifying, nearly omnipotent being who needs to be prevented from ever escaping the Quantum Realm, lest he destroy the universe — but aside from a few unconvincing, late-inning battle sequences, there really doesn’t seem to be much to Kang. Quantumania makes you appreciate even more the achievement of something like the Avatar films. What does any of this have to do with Ant-Man or the Wasp (Evangeline Lilly)? Within what feels like the first 15 or so minutes of the movie, our heroes wind up getting sucked into the Quantum Realm (alongside Janet and her husband Hank Pym, played again by Michael Douglas) when Scott’s daughter Cassie (Kathryn Newton) begins sending signals into this world in an effort to map it. Now, she reveals that she wasn’t alone down there — that a whole universe of beings exists in the Quantum Realm, elaborate and diverse alien tribes in seemingly constant conflict. Maybe director Peyton Reed and his collaborators thought they were making a Star Wars movie; the protagonists’ adventures in the Quantum Realm at times look like they were meant to be a knockoff version of George Lucas’s space operas, albeit in compressed form. Save for a relatively brief, breezy opening section set in the Marvel present, where Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) has written a memoir about his eventful life as Ant-Man and his experiences saving the world in the wake of the Thanos Snap and the ensuing battles, the vast majority of Quantumania takes place in the Quantum Realm, that deadly microworld that you fall into if you shrink so much that you find yourself slipping between subatomic particles.

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Ultimately, to save the world that he is in and return to the future that he knows, Barry’s only hope is to race for his life. [how to watch Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania](/articles/how-to-watch-ant-man-and-the-wasp-quantumania-paul-rudd), but if you're wondering whether or not it's on Disney+ yet the answer is simple: nope. Are you still trying to decide if you want to go see the movie, or maybe just stay home and read all our spoiler coverage this weekend instead? This is clearly a tie-in to Loki Season 2, but again, follow the link in the previous paragraph for all our thoughts on these scenes! They've summoned, well, a lot of Kangs from all over the multiverse, and we can only assume that will be... Team Ant-Man all step into the portal, but Scott pushes Cassie through to protect her from a shot by Kang, and he stays behind to fight the villain. Scott relives the opening scene of the movie, walking down the street and being adored as a hero. [Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Post-Credits Scenes Explained](/articles/ant-man-and-the-wasp-quantumania-post-credits-scenes-explained) story. Kang brutally slams his foot through Scott’s helmet, saying “You should have looked the other way!” and “I want you to remember you could have gone home, you could have seen your daughter again! Let's make this easy: Do you want to know if there’s a post-credits scene in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania? He says, “History is not written, it is forged!” in a very clear homage to a speech given by comics Kang the Conqueror in Avengers Forever Volume 1 #1. First of all, all of team Ant-Man survives the film, including Scott, Hope, Cassie, Hank and Janet.

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From her complicated history with the Quantum Realm to her badass action scenes, Janet takes center stage while Hope is on the sidelines waiting for her cue to spring into action. [at the end of Ant-Man and the Wasp](https://collider.com/ant-man-and-the-wasp-quantum-realm-explained-peyton-reed/), all Hope has ever wanted was a close relationship with Janet. It’s disappointing that the story couldn’t find a way to give both the Wasp characters an equal opportunity to develop more, but [much of what he does in the Quantum Realm](https://collider.com/quantum-realm-ant-man-and-the-wasp-quantumania/) is for Cassie, not Hope. Janet commands her way through her former home with ease as her husband and daughter marvel at the life they never knew about. In fact, it wouldn’t be a stretch to say that the Wasp who makes a bigger impact in the movie is in fact the original Wasp herself — Janet van Dyne. The decision to have Hope help save the day comes across as a way to keep a title character relevant to saving the world. It’s also after sending Kang further down into the Quantum Realm that Scott and Hope have a quiet moment together. Later when they do reunite, Scott and Hope go straight into action mode to retrieve the core and rescue Cassie and Janet. Once we switch gears to the Quantum Realm, the journey there breaks up the Ant family — Hope with her parents, and Scott with his daughter. Her character, Hope van Dyne, was treated as an equal and partner to Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) proving that it takes two to make a thing go right! But despite her family reuniting, a loving relationship, and a successful career, Quantumania doesn’t seem to know what to do with Hope.

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“It allowed us to create a wide and varied world.” The plot easily adjusted to embrace such a disparate mishmash. “He’d conquered their people, and maybe they were the last survivors, and they’ve all banded together to resist.” And there’s oppression down there.” The oppression comes courtesy of That was, conceptually, the kind of bonkers idea.” “It had to feel different than outer space in Guardians of the Galaxy or Asgard in the Thor movies. And what’s the history of this?

(L-R): Paul Rudd as Scott Lang/Ant-Man, Kathryn Newton Image: Marvel Studios. Quantumania was billed as our first real intro to Jonathan Majors ...

[three Kangs at the Council of Kangs](https://www.polygon.com/e/23363294). And it stands to reason he’ll appear in other upcoming Marvel shows and movies before 2025’s Avengers: The Kang Dynasty. The Kang in the Quantum Realm mentions those infinite Kang variants, saying that they banished him to the Quantum Realm because he disagreed with them on the subject of an oncoming threat. He warned Loki and Sylvie that if they killed him, and restored free will to the universe, the timeline would splinter into a multiverse, and eventually the many variants of He Who Remains would meet, clash, and spiral into a time war that would destroy all of existence. In the comics, however, superheroes don’t cause Incursions to happen. Then, in one of the film’s credits scenes, Strange was accosted by a woman named Clea, who told him that he had caused an Incursion and she’d come to make him fix it. “By the time you get to the end of the movie, all those secrets are out. [Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania](https://www.polygon.com/reviews/23597532/ant-man-wasp-quantumania-review-mcu) is aptly titled: Between the Quantum Realm, the Ant-Man family, and the time-traveling warlord [Kang the Conqueror](https://www.polygon.com/23420872/ant-man-quantumania-kang-conqueror-trailer-explained), there’s a lot going on. All of team Ant-Man makes it out of the Quantum Realm and safely back to normal size. The people of the Quantum Realm are freed from tyranny. This is all before the two [post-credit scenes](https://www.polygon.com/23599253/ant-man-wasp-quantumania-post-credits-scenes-kangs-explained). So it’s reasonable to be a little confused when he gets his butt mega-handed to him at the end.

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