Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania - DisneyCember 

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As much as this movie missed the mark, I’ll admit that the scene with the multiple Ant-Man’s was actually a legit good scene. Not only was it very creative but it was the one scene in the movie that clicked with me and actually had me engaged in what was happening. Plus, I was legitimately rooting for Scott in that moment. Hands down, the best scene in the whole movie.

Quantumania is definitely one of those movies where it makes you excited for a pitch meeting.

The biggest mistake this movie made was not having Michael Pena, he was like the best part of the first two movies, Ant-Man just isn't the same without him

Honestly, Disneycembers are by far my favorite content Doug produces these days. No skits, no over the top theatrics, just an honest bite size review of a movie. I wish we got these throughout the year.

Aside from being hit-and-miss, the scene where Scott tried to escape from the hole with the help of his Ant-Man clones is really cool. Too bad the film did M.O.D.O.K dirty with this one.

Cassie's actress in Endgame was PERFECT. I'll never understand why they recast her, it really took me out of the flick.

I don’t mind that Darren became M.O.D.O.K because I feel like it makes sense that at least in the MCU that M.O.D.O.K would be from Pym particles and I like the idea of adapting different characters to different roles like how they did with him in Avengers Assemble where he substituted Zola and his robot body with the Adaptoid

I honestly didn't expect Kang to be such a pushover. The whole movie I waited for him to do something, anything that would cement him as THE villain of the coming saga. And yet, everyone walked away just fine, no one got trapped in Star W.. I mean Quantum Realm, and the stakes seem to be exactly where they were when the movie started. After two uninteresting and barely coherent tv shows and two lackluster movies, I'm officially marveled out.

If you want a better streamlined version of Kang, watch The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes. That was my first introduction to Kang and even now his episodes still hold up really well. As does much of EMH too, which Doug should DEFINITELY watch.

Kathryn Newton did alright as the replacement Cassie, though I wish that they'd properly explained why she replaced Emma Fuhrmann, who found out about the recast the same time as everyone else.

I appreciate that despite missing 5 years of his daughter’s life, Ant-Man’s films are consistent with Scott and Cassie’s bond. Their reunion in the third act is so sweet!

In the final battle they made it feel like we should be so sad that characters were being killed but all I could think was "I don't know who any of these people are. We never spent any time with them"

1:54 I thought Cassie Lang was protesting for people misplaced after The Blip, maybe having undertones of what the Flagsmashers from TFaTWC were fighting for. As a SF Bay Area resident, I've heard dumber reasons for protests IRL. 4:25 I think that was more for the comic readers in the audience, who can recognize different versions of Kang. 8:12 Modok says, "MEME ME! MEME ME! ME ME ME ME MEME ME!"

And now with Marvel recently cutting ties with Jonathan Majors, who knows what the future holds for Kang at this point.

I know most people criticized Quantumania's CGI, but I actually found the Quantum Realm kind of cool. Or at the least it was really, really weird and I assumed weird, out there worlds with bizarre aliens were something Marvel fans liked a lot (see the Guardians movies). Idk there was more to the visuals than just MODOK and I thought there was some creativity put into their design. At least at the expense of VFX team's mental health.

Majors is astonishing in this film. Just like Bale was in LaT, it's clear their performances are what's carrying their movies.

This movie is on par with direct to video sequels, Disney originally planned to release this movie on streaming, but they wanted that box office revenue and it ended up failing!

Fans: Why does Modok have a face plate? Show us his face! Modok: (Appears) Fans: Ugh! Forget it, keep the face plate. Keep it!

On the 13th day of disneycember, the critic gave to me. 13 quantum realms, 12 Clones fighting, 11 Sci-Fi Knights, 10 Haunted Houses, 9 Spider Battles, 8 Ghosts observing, 7 magical pixies, 6 Fire and water Love Stories, 5 SPITING CONTINENTS, 4 wishing stars, 3 palisman, 2 marvelous disappointments And a goomba with a Human body!

I don't mind it to be honest. There's good parts mainly Rudd as Scott and Majors preformance as Kang despite *some news that came out around the time that it came out involving him* could've been better also could've been worse

I actually think this movie is pretty underrated (not great but not terrible), and feel the Probability Storm scene should be talked about in the same breath as Doctor Strange's "I love you in every universe" line. Because unlike that bit, it's not TOLD to us, it's SHOWN to us that no matter the universe, Scott loves his daughter, and will let nothing stop him from protecting her.

“It’s never too late to stop being a dick.” Majorly made me laugh, honestly one of my personal favorite movie lines

Yes, I feel like the world and visuals carry this movie. It reminded me of classic Star Wars. Especially all the weird creatures!

If Modok met Mickey in Kingdom Hearts wearing a dark cloak saying "Did somebody mention the Door to Darkness?", the world would implode with awkward hilariousness.!

I feel like a way to make this movie work is if the good guys lost and failed to save the Quantimrealm. And ended with Scott dying but trapping this Kang in that world. Dooming the realm, but keeping the earth save. I think that would have made the movie much better and better show how much of threat Kang is by not being able to kill him, but permanently trapping him instead.

Imo they should left Scott and Hope in Quantum Realm to make their choice to stay and fight Kang more valueble. They had such a good line in this film "I don't have to win, I just need both of us to lose" and there were no consequnces whatsoever. Also another problem for me was too much CGI. Way too much. I mean sometimes you can tell when actors just stood in green room and nothing to interact with.

This movie could have worked in my opinion if it did what the Super Mario movie did and have the villain end up in the hero's home world. Like a lot of Isekai type plots this movie suffers from the issue that if the villain never escapes to other worlds they don't always feel like they left a big impact.

Antman 1 and 2 are underrated in my opinion. I appreciate how these movies are able to keep things small threats (No pun intended) to help contrast with a lot of other movie series. I also like how Antman the character feels disconnected from most of the other Avengers because he doesn't developed a lot of memorable dynamics with the other characters. It helps makes him stand out.

I'm actually really glad Doug brought up this point about Kang the Conqueror because I really was beginning to think I was the only one who also saw this problem with him. Even if Jonathan Majors didn’t have all of his current legal woes, I think Marvel really overplayed its hand with the whole multiverse stuff. It worked with Spider-Man because it largely pulled from the nostalgia of the old films. The problem with Kang is having multiple versions of the same villain really waters down their impact on the audience and it really doesn’t make for a really compelling story arc. As Doug said, look at Thanos. He was slowly built up across multiple movies to show his power and how big of a threat he was and it was ultimately building up to something. Thanos’ impact wouldn’t have been nearly as big if we kept getting a different version of him in every single movie. You could even argue that the plot device to bring him back in Endgame was sort of a cop-out. I know all of the die-hard Marvel fans are going to say, ‘but it happened in the comics’ in regards to Kang that's cool whatever. But, not everything that’s in the comics translates well to film all the time. I know everyone has their own thoughts, but I have to agree with Doug he's not a very compelling character, doesn't feel as threatening, and the multiple versions really waters down his impact.

One thing I like about this movie was Scott’s character arc. This is the man who is now recognized for fixing the snap he’s finally getting the fame he deserves and everything is going his way and he kinda doesn’t wanna do the superhero thing anymore and wants to retire. Until they go into the quantum realm and find all the residents in trouble, while Casey wants to help them all Scott wants is to get his daughter out of there so she can be save, but Casey keeps telling him that “just because it’s not happening to you doesn’t mean it isn’t happening at all”. Now we’ve come full circle Scott deep down has always been a hero he may have been a petty thief, but it’s revealed he stole from a company who was stealing from their employees so in his mind he was doing the right thing and looking out for the little guy. Now that life is behind him or so he thinks, his daughter has started to become like him a bit weather he wants her to or not now she’s sticking up for the little guy in helping the homeless and the people of the quantum realm and Scott realizes this and knows that there’s always people who are gonna need a hero and with his fire now reignited he stops Kang and returns home safely bringing his arc back around full circle. To me it’s perfect. 👍

Bill Murray could've been the new torch bearers of Stan Lee's cameos, as a fellow agent of the Watchers. He's already known for bizarre and surreal encounters IRL, so making this canon in the MCU would've been funny.

I know I’m not the first to say this, but when a Marvel villain looks like Mr. Electric from Sharkboy and Lavagirl, then Marvel definitely needs to change things up, and I don’t know how much of Disney was involved with trying to create cringy memes or wanting this film to look like it was made in Robert Rodriquez’s garage. But I do hope Marvel brings in new people to make great films again, same goes for Disney Animation and Pixar, I think management needs to change so morale can improve

On the 13th day of Disneycember. The critic gave to me: 13 Failed Ants 12 Far Far Away Galaxies 11 Cool Redheads 10 Rebooted Mansions 9 Spectacular Spideys 8 Seeing Dead 7 Lost Boys 6 Elements Combining 5 Icy Adventures 4 Ok Wishes 3 Disney’s Best 2 Marvel Blounders And 1 Failed First Attempt

As long as Zelda is being made live-action, I can see Jonathan Majors play a mean Ganondorf.

I’m not sure when Marvel characters stopped acting human, but this is when I really noticed it.

What if I told you that the catastrophe known as Superhero Fatigue could be prevented if during the height of MCU, Disney does put an effort into their movie such as the live action Kim Possible DCOM. But some guy over Disney who values nothing but billions doesn't give a damn about an effort, so the catastrophe happened...

This variant of Kang the Conqueror does not have the primary goal of conquering the quantum realm. He was literally sent there by the council of Kangs to trap him. He's been trying to escape ever since, utilizing the resources of the quantum realm to build up his forces and technology. His greater goal has to do with the timelines, the multiverse, and the council of Kangs.

8:05 It still throws me how much Doug has become self aware.

Ah yes, the one that *_OFFICIALLY_* rendered the MCU a “dead” franchise in the eyes of the whole world…

Wow, never noticed that Quantumania has the name Ant Man in its letters. Gotta find it out in a speedy review, otherwise I would have never noticed XD

On the 13th Disneycember, the Critic gave to me: A Marvel dud Genndy Tartakovsky Blue Sky's last movie The old one is better That kickass theme song A surprise hit Welp, there's another one. A Pixar sleeper hit ANOTHER SEQUEL! Torn apart by critics We need another season! Victim of the strikes And a cult movie with a fanbase.

On the 13th day of disneycember my critic gave to me 13 quantum realms 12 underappreciated masterpieces 11 rescued movies 10 sleeping ghosts 9 definitive interpretations 8 scary M Nights 7 live action reboots 6 elements dating 5 ice ages drifting 4 foul wishes 3 amitys blushing 2 marvelous failures And mario and luigi plumning by a pair tree

"It's weird. It's bizarre, but whatever. Marvel. Comic book. Just to make the story plot action happen, I'm not that picky." I think that's a horrible way to approach superhero films. They're not stories where the details of the plot should be overlooked. I would argue superhero films have gone downhill massively because the writers themselves have this mentality.

Who agrees Antman and The Wasp 2018 is the best of the Antman Trilogy?

I'll admit I liked this film. Don't think the movie was *good* but the inventive visuals and family dynamic really won me over. I just loved watching these people who clearly really cared about each other interact with minimal forced drama. It was so damn refreshing. The scene with Bill Murray had me bracing for something awful. He's being too handsy with Janet and it's clear they were a thing and I was just waiting for it to be some big argument. Instead they talked, handled it like adults, and moved on. Literally my favorite scene in the movie.

I liked the movie fine but I would’ve liked it more if after the climax, Scott and Hope remained stuck in the Quantum Realm. That would be an interesting build up to another chapter. In fact, I once heard that was initially planned but Disney ordered a rewrite and reshoots months before the theatrical release date.

I felt bad for Michael Douglas while watching the film, bunch of green screen, just having his arms inside those jelly like things to pilot the ship, felt like he didn't want to be there 8:51 That place just made me think of The Last Of Us cordyceps, before the show came out

I remember being bored and yucked, but most of it, I don't remember enjoying any moment of the movie. The audience I saw with, they all reacted like if they were watching a sitcom with the signs of laughter, shock, and applause. It's almost like if Marvel trained them when to laugh, when to clap, when to be shocked, it didn't deserve any reaction, the movie sucks.

Funny thing is, Scott's book actually exists in real life. I saw it yesterday at a Barnes and Noble.

Pretty sure the daughter was protesting for the rights of the people who are homeless because of the blip. Also because San Francisco is a sucky place to live in.

The Quantum Realm kind of gave me a Star Wars vibe.

Doug doing a “game recognizes game” on cringy memes gave me a great laugh. Talking about having your shit called out by an expert 😂 Thanks for the review!

The muscular actress who played Jentorra, Katy M. O Brian, gave the best performance, tbh. Wish her character got more screentime

I certainly don’t see MODOK as “Marvel-killing”, but it seemed like they couldn’t decide between making him sympathetic and making him the butt of a joke. What we’re left with feels super awkward. Visually I see him as a design problem rather than a CGI problem, it’s hard to make a photorealistic giant face in a high chair not look uncanny. That’s why other versions of MODOK have exaggerated facial features. In any case, I agree, I thought this movie was just fine. I liked it enough.

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Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantumania was the last MCU movie I saw in theaters. I didn't hate as much as other people did, but I can definitely say that it was a very bad start for Phase 5 of the MCU.

I think this was the one that really started people actively hating Marvel CGI because of that thing that they call MODOK.

Let's not forget the other annoying trope they gave Scott's daughter, "She's a genius. Don't ask what she's done to be considered a genius, she just is. Don't question it."

Doug is just so much himself in Disneycember, entertaining, interesting and honest in opinion Love it every year mate keep it up

I love how kang was so weak in this that in Loki they all but say he was just some renegade jerk

I love that the thumbnail is MODOK. They did him dirty

You'd be right on the assumption on them intentionally making M.O.D.O.K a complete joke, this movie's screenwriter said in an interview that M.O.D.O.K is just a big stupid head and "will never give the five fans of M.O.D.O.K a serious treatment as long as he's a part of the MCU.'

What frustrates me the most about this movie is that it has so many characters but only Scott, Cassie, Janet and Kang (more or less) are fleshed out. Even Hope felt like a side character for most of the movie, and her name is in the title. They had one cool idea for how to introduce MODOK but no clue of what to do with him for the rest of the movie. And in the age of Guardians of the Galaxy, you gotta do more with weird alien characters than a generic resistance leader, a generic telepath and "I like holes". Waaaay too much ambition in the hands of people who didn't want to go deeper than a 90's family comedy, to be brutally honest.

Kang was the best part

When Me and my dad watched this movie we both gave it a 7 🤣

It's funny that he mentioned Loki in this video because I have been wondering if he's going to cover it this year, now that the show seems to be over.

Daft Punk were Kang’s henchmen 😂

I thought that the thumbnail was of mr Electric from Sharkboy and Lavagirl at first. 😅

Low and behold, it’s already 1 year old!! This is my favorite one out of the three Some of the zippiness is absent but it doesn't skimp on the action and the best reason to see the movie is Jonathan Majors as the villain Kang, he is killing it being the next big threat having a calm demeanor but sounding menacing too Plus given the character’s abilities in the comics he can shape existence and time to his own making The music is much more intense and it's visually stimulating even scenes involving a probability storm almost matching ‘Doctor Strange’ Love Kathryn Newton as older Cassie and it's crazy what they did with the MODOK character tying back to the first film Bill Murray makes a funny cameo too as Krylar They had more of the budget this time around and got creative with the designs of the world and the creatures Sad that Evangeline Lily is in less of this but I’m glad Michelle Pfeiffer has more to do than the previous film This officially starts phase 5 of the MCU with more of the multiverse involved Plus I'm anxious to see what happens later with more properties down the line ‘Quantumania’ is the bigger movie of the three but I think more massive stuff is on the way

Kang is disappointing. I thought they planned that he wanted to conquer all the universes because they are collapsing and he believes they have to combine in order to stop. But for a catch, he wants to be in complete control as a dictator.

MODOK looks like if Humpty Dumpty and Mr. Electric from Shark Boy and Lava Girl had a baby

If there's one thing I would've changed, is turning Modok into a main villain without Kang. Hell, you can use rejected concept art from his other designs. The look they went with doesn't match with how he died. He was shrunk from the inside, his body would look disgusting if you've seen the concept art. It's obvious that Modok was an afterthought when it came to introducing other villains in the MCU. Also, Bill Murray had a bigger role and would've seen him working with Kang. There was BTS footage of him with Scott, Kang and Cassie so I wonder what his original role was. I always thought he was an older Reed Richards where in the MCU, he lost Susan, Ben and Johnny and the Fantastic Four never happened. However, it's revealed that Nathaniel (Kang) was responsible for his timeline being rewritten and would've been killed off at some point and we would have the new Fantastic Four from a different universe in the new movie. By Secret Wars, the new Fantastic Four would be established in the newly rebooted MCU. Shame that Jonathan Majors turned out to be a complete asshole in real life. And it doesn't help that the movie's ending was reshot mere weeks before release to avoid repeating the ending to Ant-Man and the Wasp. Shame how THAT ending would've left something for us to wonder about for the following years like it did before Endgame.

Disney on track to lose 1 billion on films this year. Well deserved.

That thumbnail says it all.

It was a family friendly episode of Rick and Morty with antman as morty and Pym and rick.

Bill Murray was barely in Zombieland, but he was funny and memorable. I forgot he was in this movie; for this movie to make Bill Murray forgettable is a travesty

While I did enjoy this movie, it did have problems that made me reluctant to say it was good. If Janet had just taken an hour to explain her time/experience in The Quantum Realm this whole movie could have been avoided. I actually didn't mind Darren Cross becoming M.O.D.O.K., but his development/redemption felt rushed since he went from a serious threat to a comic relief character to a hero way too quickly. & for a movie called "Ant Man & The Wasp" Hope (as well as Hank) didn't do that much in it.

Now this REALLY doesn’t age well since Marvel has now decided the drop the Kang storyline entirely for Avengers 5

It's funny when the best Version of Modok that exists outside of comics, and Phineas and Ferb, is the one that was voiced by Patton Oswald.

"Modok is the poster child..." That's a strange way of saying "G'iah with her hilarious bad CGI baby drax arm"

From what I gathered on Kang the Conqueror, he was exiled by the Council of Kangs for trying to undo their work across the Multiverse, the reason why is because Kang shows the consequences for playing with time and describing them like children, the results being lots of Incursions when universes collide with each other and either one universe survives or both are destroyed, Kang thinks he's preventing the Multiverse from dying with his methods plus when Janet calls him out on killing so many to accomplish his goal he says "I wish that mattered" because there's no scenario he can see where everyone lives it's trying to save the most lives but not everything or everyone can be saved, but it's also revenge on his variants who exiled him plus there are people who think they can do better than others in charge but in the end they're not so different

Honestly thought this was fine, was something great, but nothing really horrible either.

Honestly, I felt like Kang should of won and escaped the Quantum Realm in the end. Disney is probably afraid to go with that kind of cliffhanger cause they wanna play safe🙄

Every time MODOK was on screen I couldn’t help but burst out laughing from how ridiculous he looked on the screen.

Honestly, seeing Modok in the thumbnail made me recoil in disgust. Cause even though he's a comic relief villain, his animated face in Marvel's Avengers series look way more angry and threatening. This Modok's face just looks like that teacher's face on a robot from Shark Boy and Lava Girl. It's not cool it's ugly.

This scene gave me Sharkboy and Lavagirl flashbacks.

1:40 funny enough I remember what the protest was about. People losing their home after the blip

Funny thing, I remember my mother watching the movie on our plane ride back from New York and telling me she stopped after the first 15 minutes because there was too much stupid for her to handle. I don't know how valid her statement is, so I'll watch Quantumania on Disney+ to form my own opinion. The reason I didn't was for fear of wasting my money on some movie most people said was painfully mediocre.

8:05 - 8:10 Doug none will forgive that you gave us Raul Julia's "OF COURSE" and "Big lipped alligator moments"

They said they wanted MODOK to be the Frank Grimes of MCU

This review was very fair and balanced.

I do agree with you on one thing, the Quantum Realm was amazing to look at in 3D

I don't know what they were thinking having kang get beaten by ants, it's like having ronan kill thanos, it could have been interesting if ant man and wasp were stuck in the quantum realm to ramp up the stakes when kang comes back but they couldn't even get that right.

The scene with the multiple antmans any scene with the goo guy and Jonathan Majors as Kang were the highlights of this movie.

1:32 - 1:53 Disney: "Hey, c'mon! We totally get your children! We understand the teenage female demographic, with our hundred years of writing *animated Princesses who dream of wanting mor-* Oh my God, we still haven't moved on from *that* trope!?"

I don't get how people keep clamoring for the MCU to do things differently, and yet when they do, people either complain or don't say anything. Even if the whole MCU formula hasn't been overhauled, it still took plenty of risks in Phase 4 that brought projects into new territories. WandaVision was an homage to sitcoms of decades past, Werewolf by Night was a 1940s-style creature feature (and a title I wish Doug would do for DisneyCember), Shang-Chi was a martial arts movie, Multiverse of Madness was an over-the-top Sam Raimi horror flick, we got the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special, and even though Eternals may have fallen below expectations it still did things slightly differently. Even though there were problems with these titles, it's still refreshing to see a slight shake up in what get for content

Good Lord, i forgot Bill Murray was in the movie.

I understand the infamy, but for me, MODOK was the best part of the movie. I had a blast with every minute he was onscreen, and now anytime I do a decent thing, I think “At least I died an Avenger!”

It's funning that he said star wars because I got that feeling too.