Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania Review - 5 Ups & 5 Downs

Phase 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe kicks off with Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania, which is out now in cinemas around the globe.

There's been much discussion in recent days over the film's troublingly mixed pre-release reviews, which at present place it close to Eternals' 47%, making it one of just two critically Rotten movies in the franchise's history.

Have the critics been a little too unkind to the Ant-Man threequel, or does it represent the wider diminishing returns from the franchise as a whole, as it strains to carve out a compelling post-Thanos throughline?

It sucks to say it, but Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania is indeed a bottom-tier MCU offering, sitting alongside Eternals, Thor: The Dark World, and Black Widow as one of the series' least interesting adventures to date.

That's not to say it's an awful movie by any means, but anyone hoping for it to deliver an energising coming-out party for villain Kang (Jonathan Majors), while laying the groundwork for 2025's Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, will likely be left rather underwhelmed.

If nothing else, Quantumania serves as a reminder that the MCU isn't as bulletproof with critics and audiences as it once seemed, and that it desperately needs to focus on quality over quantity moving forward.

With that in mind, here's where the third Ant-Man movie falls down hardest...