The movie, let it be said, is not awful, but the kinetic battles are chaotic, and the look of the Quantum Realm is oddly drab in its interweaving of digital and VFX elements, seeming at times to be more like several first drafts of a new “Star Wars” franchise instead of a natural extension of this one. After an hour, a lot of the lesser MCU movies start to feel like green screen jail, for everyone on screen as well as the audience.ĭirector Reed, forced by the script to lean into the combat melees, still has his ace in the hole, which is Ant-Man and company’s ability to change size in an eyeblink, going from ant size to “Iron Giant” size when needed. Always a thinker on screen, Majors makes a rare error in dramatic strategy in “Quantumania,” trading dramatic … pauses for mo … mentum and pacing. It depends on the material, as it does for every actor, and here, Majors spins his wheels trying to make this supervillain his own, and different from all the others. We’ll be seeing him again, of course, since Majors is a fascinating actor. Question: How to get back home? Conflict: Why is Kang the Conqueror, played by Jonathan Majors, trying to kill us, and destroy all worlds? Well, he’s a supervillain, and we’ve seen his like before (in a related guise on Disney’s series “Loki”). Aside from bookend sequences set in San Francisco, the sloggy whole of “Quantumania” takes place down there, in a land of reputed magical visual wonders that look like leftovers from Pandora after being reheated on high in a bowl with reruns of “H.R. A great guide for the loot tables can be found on the wiki here Unlocking Gambling Once you unlock Gambling (Act 3) although you can obtain gear from a small item selection list. The plot this time sends Scott, Hope, Hope’s brilliant and nicely coifed parents (Michelle Pfeiffer and Michael Douglas) and Scott’s enterprising and socially conscious daughter, Cassie (Kathryn Newton), into the sub-universe of Quantumville. A curse? A character grudge we’ll eventually find out about? Payback for a performer’s stance against COVID-19 vaccine mandates? Aside from the occasional boilerplate (“I’ve got a read on Scott!”), Hope’s strictly sideline material. Second-billed implies a certain portion of the action and the talking, but Lilly is practically mute in “Quantumania,” and you keep waiting for some explanation for this. Paul Rudd is back as Scott Lang/Ant-Man, as is second-billed Evangeline Lilly as Hope Van Dyne/Wasp.
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