Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania | 2023 Movies RANKED - Episode 7

Follow along as RANKED reviews a new movie release every week of 2023, slowly compiling the best films of the year into a sacred hierarchical list.

Previous Episode RANKED List:
1. Infinity Pool
2. M3GAN
3. missing
4. Magic Mike’s Last Dance
5. Knock at the Cabin
6. Plane

Ant-Man 3: Ant-Man and the Wasp 2: Quantumania 1 marks a turn for the MCU, hopefully towards something to finally care about beyond the aimless wanderings of phase four following the exit of Marvel characters we actually care about. But so far as Ant-Man shenanigans go, all of the humor and really clever growing and shrinking scale gags of Scott Lang’s life on normal-sized Earth have been replaced by a visit to the quantum realm. Humanoid beings and weird alien-esque creatures coexist down there for some reason that is never really explored because they’re too busy setting up Marvel’s next Thanos-ian bad guy, a move by which ultimately it is Ant-Man himself who pays the price, because it kinda feels like any other avenger could have gone on this same adventure. The movie would have benefitted from stripping out half the main characters and refocusing the whole story around Scott reconnecting with his daughter Cassie, but at this point that’s too much to ask of Marvel who never permanently removes anyone, but only adds more and more characters over time, like a glutton with his butthole sewn shut. Eventually all that crap will ooze out of his other 6 holes because at a certain point, something’s gotta give.