Categorized under "comedy", this third instalment of the Ant-man franchise bookends the movie with two comments from his fans. The one in the opening greets him with a most sincere "Thank you, Spider-man". As a perfect closure, the one at the closing scenes quips "oh, you are the other bug". An improvement, you must agree.
If a single word is to be used to describe this movie, I'd say "visual". After a brief "prologue" of a cozy family dinner oozing domesticity, the story is plunged (literally) into title "Quantumania" universe, where the remaining 90% takes place. While there are still earthly structures, the overwhelming visual you are entertained with is surreal and abstract, in such a profusion of multi-color that dwarfs Joseph's Amazing Dreamcoat.
Let me dwell not on the customary confrontation of good against evil, nor the overtaxed pseudo-scientific gibberish. Rather, just a few words on the cast and I'm done.
Those who have watched "Ant-man and the Wasp" will remember that two family stories were anchored on the love relationship between the leads "Ant-man" Scott (Paul Rudd) and "Wasp" Hope (Evangeline Lilly). For Scott, it was his relationship with daughter Cassie (Kathryn Newton, in this 3rd instalment; in "Ant-man and the Wasp" and "Avenger: end game", this character was played by two other different actors) that he co-parents with divorced but still friendly wife. For Hope, in was her effort with father Hank (Michael Douglas) to rescue mother Janet (Michelle Pfeiffer) who had been trapped in the Quantum realm for three decades.
The above 5 main characters essentially carried on from where they left off in the second instalment "Ant-man and the Wasp". Particularly standing out thought is Pfeiffer's Janet, for the obvious reason that the arena for this movie is where she had been trapped for 3 decades, and is now coming back (though not voluntarily) to settle some old score with prime villain Kang (Jonathan Majors). Two other characters worth mentioning are slightly more than cameos. Bill Murray plays Lord Krylar, a friendly force in the Quantum realm. Corey Stoll plays "Yellowjacket" Darren, nemesis to Ant-man in the original movie, supposedly dead but revived to be a "weapon" in this third instalment.
If a single word is to be used to describe this movie, I'd say "visual". After a brief "prologue" of a cozy family dinner oozing domesticity, the story is plunged (literally) into title "Quantumania" universe, where the remaining 90% takes place. While there are still earthly structures, the overwhelming visual you are entertained with is surreal and abstract, in such a profusion of multi-color that dwarfs Joseph's Amazing Dreamcoat.
Let me dwell not on the customary confrontation of good against evil, nor the overtaxed pseudo-scientific gibberish. Rather, just a few words on the cast and I'm done.
Those who have watched "Ant-man and the Wasp" will remember that two family stories were anchored on the love relationship between the leads "Ant-man" Scott (Paul Rudd) and "Wasp" Hope (Evangeline Lilly). For Scott, it was his relationship with daughter Cassie (Kathryn Newton, in this 3rd instalment; in "Ant-man and the Wasp" and "Avenger: end game", this character was played by two other different actors) that he co-parents with divorced but still friendly wife. For Hope, in was her effort with father Hank (Michael Douglas) to rescue mother Janet (Michelle Pfeiffer) who had been trapped in the Quantum realm for three decades.
The above 5 main characters essentially carried on from where they left off in the second instalment "Ant-man and the Wasp". Particularly standing out thought is Pfeiffer's Janet, for the obvious reason that the arena for this movie is where she had been trapped for 3 decades, and is now coming back (though not voluntarily) to settle some old score with prime villain Kang (Jonathan Majors). Two other characters worth mentioning are slightly more than cameos. Bill Murray plays Lord Krylar, a friendly force in the Quantum realm. Corey Stoll plays "Yellowjacket" Darren, nemesis to Ant-man in the original movie, supposedly dead but revived to be a "weapon" in this third instalment.