Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) and his whole family get sucked into the quantum realm where they will face a villain that threatens the entire multiverse. 

Opening with a short comedy sequence with Scott wondering about the craziness of his life we are swiftly moved into the crux of the story. Scott’s daughter Cassie (Kathryn Newton) has been doing some science experiments of her own and the result is the extended Lang and Van Dyne family finding themselves in the peculiar quantum realm. Scott and Cassie will meet a rebellion group fighting an unknown tyrant whilst Hope (Evangeline Lilly) and Hank (Michael Douglas) will learn that Janet (Michelle Pfeiffer) has far more history than she ever let on in this universe. 

Quantumania is the third Ant-Man film and is the weakest of the series because of what it does not do rather than what it does. What this film is, is an effects heavy large scale story of a rebellion trying to stand up to a tyrant. It had me thinking of Star Wars or John Carter. What it is not, is the small scale comedy film sitting on the edge of the Marvel Universe. The original two films were comedy centric and inventive with the shrinking and enlarging of every day objects. Aside from the opening and closing of the movie we get little comedy and little real world to be inventive in. 

It is not that the film is not fine or satisfactory. It is just that it never really felt like an Ant-Man movie. The short sequences at the beginning and ending had more comedy packed into them than the entire main plot of the film set in the quantum realm. There are other small moments of fun but by virtue of being set in the quantum realm it cuts out a lot of the funny recurring characters from the other films and negates the opportunity to have an action sequence set around a toy train or a chase sequence with a constantly size changing car. 

Paul Rudd is charismatic as ever, but all the heavy lifting of the story is done by Michelle Pfeiffer and Jonathan Majors who plays the MCU’s new big bad. And if there is anything to sing and dance about here it is Majors who proves that his small role in Loki was no fluke. Hopefully what will start to build around him will be as good as his performances. My other favourite moment is in relation to a returning character from a previous film and the humour that they bring with him. But I will let you discover who that is yourself.

Other than being disappointed by what the film is not I have to mention again, as I did in my Black Panther: Wakanda Forever review that James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way Of Water special effects have really set a new bar that makes some of the stuff here feel rushed and not on the same level. 

Recalibrate your expectations and this is a fun, effects heavy rebellion film in the vein of Star Wars or John Carter. Otherwise you may face disappointment that this is not the Ant-Man films you have loved before. 

Stick around for mid and end of credits scenes.