First Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Reactions Pour In
Phase 5 officially gets underway with the release of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania! Here's what the people lucky enough to have seen some previews of the latest MCU entry are saying about it.
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With a divisive Phase 4 of the MCU wrapped and shipped, it’s almost time to clap our eyes on the first of Marvel Studios’ Phase 5 entries: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Marvel was happy to churn out despite their relatively low box office payoff, Ant-Man 3 has the Quantum Realm on its shoulders as it kicks off a serious and deadly new dynasty. It’s also handling the job of properly introducing Phase 5 and 6’s big bad: Kang the Conqueror (Jonathan Majors).
In the movie, the Ant-Fam is unexpectedly pulled into the Quantum Realm again, but this time Lang’s now grown-up daughter Cassie (Kathryn Newton) is along for the ride. Cassie has superheroic ambitions, but she’s not ready to face one of Marvel Comics’ most iconic (and headache-inducing) supervillains down there in the tiny verse.
The journey will indeed feature Kang’s first appearance in the MCU, but we’ve already Rudd says we can expect some big easter eggs and cameos in this one.
The trailers for the film haven’t really offered much hope that Lang and co. will make it out of this alive or unscathed. Turns out that Lang’s former antagonist Darren Cross aka Yellowjacket (Corey Stoll) is also roaming Kang’s patch in the Quantum Realm, but to say he’s changed since we last saw him in the MCU’s MODOK – Mechanized Organism Designed Only for Killing – a giant head with little arms and legs poking out of it. You love to see it! But we can safely assume Lang won’t.
Some lucky people have already seen Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania previews. With a pinch of salt (these initial reactions are usually pretty glowing regardless), let’s take a look at what they’re saying about the movie.
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania has been handled by returning Ant-Man 1 and 2 director Peyton Reed, from a script written by Jeff Loveness. It stars Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Jonathan Majors, Michelle Pfeiffer, Michael Douglas, Kathryn Newton, David Dastmalchian, William Jackson Harper, Katy O’Brian, and Bill Murray. It is set to be released on February 17.
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