THE OPINION OF THE “WORLD” – WE CAN AVOID
Bad times for the Disney house: its streaming platform, Disney+, recently announced that it lost 2.4 million subscribers in a quarter, which forced the group to lay off more than 7,000 people. As a result, Kevin Feige (CEO of Marvel Studios, which is part of the Disney group) has said he wants to reduce the number of Marvel series airing on the platform – eager, he says, to produce less and better.
It is in this climate of the beginning of the debacle that Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, third installment of the saga devoted to the ant-man who, without ever claiming to compete with the behemoths of the studio, modestly digs his furrow of sympathetic B series, fantasizing a dimension where Jack Arnold (The shrinking man 1957) would have experienced the era of digital special effects.
The plot could not be more banal: Scott Lang, alias Ant-Man (Paul Rudd, brilliant comic actor a little cramped here), quietly enjoys his notoriety since he faced the dangerous Thanos (Avengers: Endgame, of the Russo brothers, in 2019) and seems to have definitely hung up his superhero costume. He now devotes himself to making up for lost time with his daughter Cassie.
Helped by her grandfather (Michael Douglas), she continues to explore the mysteries of the Quantum Realm. One day, a mysterious incident sucks in the whole troop who, shrunk, find themselves plunged into this alternate dimension. Before finding the way out, they will have to face many perils and, in particular, the dangerous Kang the Conqueror, who reigns supreme over the Quantum Realm.
Bill Murray and Michelle Pfeiffer
After about ten minutes spent on dry land, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania plunges headfirst into this strange half-organic, half-technological multiverse, a kind of uterine tunnel crossed by bluish lights and ugly creatures. The film amusingly re-invokes the spirit of 1980s fantasy cinema, The inner adventure (Joe Dante, 1987) at Honey, I shrunk the kids (Joe Johnson, 1989). But this tribute to a retro and “artisanal” SF, which made all the salt of the previous Ant-Man, is gradually being sacrificed on the altar of the sacrosanct multiverse – the new safe haven of the Marvel stable.
Without any causal link or concern for clarity, words and actions proliferate and devour each other
Precisely, the Quantum Realm, this reality where the concepts of time and space no longer have the slightest meaning, seems to be the definition that Ant Man is made of fiction. Without any causal link or concern for clarity, words and actions proliferate and devour each other.
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