Film: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania 
Cast: Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Jonathan Majors, Kathryn Newton, Michelle Pfeiffer, Michael Douglas, Bill Murray, William Jackson Harper, Corey Stoll, Katy O’Brian
Director: Peyton Reed
Rating: 2/ 5
Runtime: 125 min

An uncomfortable jazz-colored visual/ production design coupled with a rather tedious and boring expansionist ideology, bulbous characters, and badly timed comedic performances, make this effort, Marvel cinematic universe’s biggest clunker yet. It's definitely the most unsatisfying Marvel Cinematic Universe build-up ever!

Narratively speaking, this is basically Cassie’s (Kathryn Newton) coming-of-age story. So there’s more of her and Scott (Paul Rudd) than there is of the Wasp/ Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lily). But Michelle Pfeiffer’s Janet van Dyne, former wife of original Ant-Man Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), who was lost to the Quantum Realm for 30 years, is part of the main story here. While Michael Douglas continues to get some juicy moments, the supervillain here, also known as The Conqueror/ Kang feels like a hollow incarnation from a tired-out universe of variegated aggression. Kang is meant to be a fearsome and all-powerful villain possibly positioned as such for the next Avengers team-up. But Jonathan Major hams it up royally in a role that is poorly written. His idea of menace feels rather one-dimensional.