After directing the first two parts of the saga, Peyton Reed is back directing Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. The first chapter of Phase 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), the feature film introduces the new big villain of the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Kang the Conqueror. Following Spider-Man: No Way Home and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Ant-Man 3 takes its audience into the depths of the quantum world and explains a little more about the importance of the multiverse in the MCU. However, this new episode remains a lazy movie like the latest productions of Marvel Studios.
Ant-Man 3: we take the same ones and we start again
Decidedly, the latest proposals from Marvel Studios are struggling to convince… Between Black Widow, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Thor: Love and Thunder or Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, the MCU locks itself in a lazy, repetitive and above all totally sloppy style. Kevin Feige's firm makes a series of fairly boring feature films, with tired narrative schemes and aesthetics often quite disgusting (and we will not even dwell on the series …). And if not Sam Raimi's performance on Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, the MCU is doing very, very badly. And it is not Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania who will rectify the course. 
In this new adventure, Scott Lang and his Ant-Man team find themselves immersed in the quantum world. A trip that will allow them to make a detestable encounter: that of Kang the conqueror. And Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania could have proven to be a fun and enjoyable journey into a new universe, while also being a springboard to introduce a new iconic supervillain. But Peyton Reed breaks his face on virtually every try.
A disjointed assembly for soporific development
In fact, Marvel Studios' big problem in recent years is its lack of ability to create any suspense in its productions. The audience is never afraid for its heroes, feels no tension, no stress and therefore no suspense. And faced with this lack of tension, it is difficult to be totally concerned by the tired adventures of our protagonists. The epileptic and disjointed editing does not help, we do not care what happens on the screen. And we end up yawning at the top of a lazy work that is content to repeat the bad clichés of the MCU of recent years. Thor's slightly wiser cousin: Love and Thunder, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania plays with obvious references without ever reappropriating them. While it could have been a fun retelling of The Inner Adventure, Ant-Man and the Wasp 3 totally misses its trip. The fault to a very bad situation and an aberrant exploitation of his universe. Via a fluorescent aesthetic not recommended for epileptics, Peyton Reed offers an artificial work, where the dripping and generally hideous digital ended up giving a headache. It's hard to believe in the stakes when the plastic of the sets is chimerical… 
Because of this combination of bad taste, Ant-Man 3 spreads its kitsch without desire, without ambition, as if no one was concerned anymore. Marvel Studios has been on autopilot for too long and it's starting to feel drastically on screen. As with Thor: Love and Thunder, this new opus is lazy and often embarrassing. And it's pretty mind-blowing that Marvel productions have become so lazy. The plot is not helped by transparent characters, in the service of a narrative void that is inscribed in the work from an opening scene of a prodigious softness.Peyton Reed masks his lack of narration by more or less successful visual references like this rereading of the Star Wars Cantina, one of the few passages of the film a little nice, which offers energy, atmosphere and a correct visual identity. But as in many MCU films, as soon as a sequence is a little ambitious, successful or out of the ordinary, it dies in the bud, cut by a butcher's montage, which does not leave the work time to express itself; like the sequence where Ant-Man multiply to the point of unreason. A stylized, surprising, unique scene, which is rushed, without giving it time to really impose its impact on the public. Too bad…
Kang the Conqueror
Finally, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is a low-cost Star Wars that serves to introduce the new big villain: Kang the Conqueror. The only positive point of this Ant-Man 3, Jonathan Majors offers a subtle incarnation of this iconic supervillain. Iron fist in a velvet glove, he perfectly interprets a complex antagonist, who travels in time and the multiverse. A villain full of promise that we can't wait to see again in the MCU. We can also drop a few words about M.O.D.O.K that may disturb more than one. Peyton Reed has perfectly understood how this second-rate villain works and takes up a little of the treatment offered by the animated series Marvel's M.O.D.O.K. We can also highlight the professionalism of Michelle Pfeiffer, who offers a solid performance from Janet Van Dyne. 
Wobbly introductory film of phase 5 of the MCU, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is a minor feature film of the franchise, which does not allow to renew an MCU always more Z, always more boring, which looks at itself in an anesthetized indifference more and more disturbing… https://twitter.com/7emeCritique/status/1623010840680050702?s=20&t=lmrmRjkBY_nX68n3jKR0fA
