MOVIE REVIEW
Quantumania: Another Win for Self-Awareness
Ant-man and the Wasp: Quantumania Review
As the Marvel franchise has burgeoned into a sprawling empire of shows, movies, streaming specials and video games, it’s slowly grown into a somewhat divisive subject. With so many of its recent shows and movies being critically lambasted, it’s clear that patience with the expansive cinematic universe is beginning to wear thin.
Before Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’s theatrical release, a hell-storm of condemnation had already begun to rain down on the impending action blockbuster. With critics complaining that the movie was everything from unoriginal to outright confused and confounding, I was a little leary of what I might walk into with this latest entry into the series.
But the truth is, I loved it. And I didn’t love it because it was a spectacular movie. Spectacular is hardly what I’m expecting these Marvel thrillers to be when each new one comes to theaters. They don’t need to be cohesive and utterly ground-breaking for them to be lovable adventures through time and space.
It seems sometimes that people forget that in a universe of superheroes, writing is often just a delivery mechanism for action sequences. Considering how far we’ve come in the world of CGI in cinema…
