Warning: Spoilers ahead

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania hit or miss? 

The original Marvel movie of each series is without a doubt the best and this is no different.

Recap from Ant-Man (the original) and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Scott Lang is a former criminal who finds the Ant-Man suit in tech genius Hank Pym’s (Pym created technology used to shrink and expand organisms) basement after breaking into Pym’s home.

It turns out Lang is really adept with the suit. So, he ultimately has to use his size-shifting abilities to stop a hostile and violent takeover of Pym Technologies. 

In the end, Lang has succeeded with the help of Hank. In doing so, Scott meets Hope, Hank’s daughter. 

They turn from enemies to lovers in the end, despite Hope’s original distaste for Scott because of his criminal history.

This isn’t the only love of the Ant-Man movies…Janet (Hank’s wife) is saved after 30 years spent in the multiverse. 

This isn’t the end…

Now here is the most disappointing part about the new Ant-Man movie— every time the movie seemed like it was over— it wasn’t. 

The villain, Kang the Conqueror, was determined to get back to Earth and escape his banishment to the multiverse.

Kang has to be one of Marvel’s most annoying villains of all time. He refused to be defeated and had the most frustrating personality.

While I know that most villains have quite annoying and frustrating personalities, Kang’s was on another level.

He repetitively popped up out of nowhere after a fight that would have left any human dead. 

His annoying persistence is seen after the credits in the mini Marvel trailer, as well. 

The trailer shows Kang’s people on Earth learning of Kang’s mission to get home. His people call an emergency meeting with all time-travelers, so thousands of people begin to aparate from thin air. There is one problem…they all look the same. They all look like Kang.

This repetitive pattern of Kang always showing up made the movie, which was only two hours and 5 minutes, seem like a three hour movie.

Despite the unsatisfactory villain, the story of M.O.D.O.K. (which stands for Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing) was very fascinating.

Many years ago, Modok was a normal human, but he was forced into the A.I.M. Alteration Chamber and turned into a computer. He became extremely greedy and went to extreme lengths to take over the world. Eventually he was exiled to the multiverse and tried to help Kang defeat Ant-Man and the Wasp. 

Near the end of the movie, his ultimate defeat comes, but it was very sad to see him reveal his regrets from his life. Even though he was very malicious for much of his life, it all happened because he was forcefully turned into an all-powerful walking television.

In addition to M.O.D.O.K., there were many interesting characters. 

This is something that Marvel never fails to do. They never fail to add a few unique side characters.

This includes a pink glob-like creature called Veb. Veb is a funny character that wishes he had holes in his body and releases juice that translates languages in the brain.

Despite the wonderfully curated side characters, I would give Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania a 3 out of 5 stars. The side characters were great as always, but the plot was less than satisfactory.