Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania - The scoop and digest

Peyton Reed returns as director to kick off Phase Five.

Paul Rudd - Scott Lang/Ant-Man

Evangeline Lilly - Hope Van Dyne/Wasp

Jonathan Majors - Kang the Conqueror

Michael Douglas - Hank Pym

Michelle Pfeiffer - Janet Van Dyne

Kathryn Newton - Cassie Lang

Corey Stoll - Darren Cross/M.O.D.O.K.

Summary

For the past five years, Cassie has been studying the Quantum Realm and created a telescope to make contact without physically entering.

However, her invention reacts to a signal and sucks all and sundry inside.

In the process, Scott and Cassie are separated from Hank, Janet and Hope.

Latest big bad Kang the Conqueror is determined to escape the QR and needs Pym particle powered engine core to do so.

Mid-credits

Kang variants from the multiverse (who exiled the 'original' Kang) are concerned that superheroes like Ant-Man are capable of defeating them.

In response, thousands of bastards gather in a large amphitheatre to prepare for war, setting up Avengers: The Kang Dynasty (2025).

Post-credits

A version of Kang appears on stage in the 1920s and introduces himself as Victor Timely.

Loki and Mobius are watching in the crowd, with the former remarking "That's him."

The first Marvel Disney+ series to get a second season drops later this year.

Drink the ooze

I am getting fucking sick of the MCU.

Apart from being mind-numbingly boring, pacing and tone in search and rescue green screen mission is all over the place.

We've seen action a billion times before and exposition heavy screenplay was absolutely terrible.  Consequently, jokes fall spectacularly flat.

Also, why is shit modelled on Star Wars?

Scraping the barrel, Majors' villain impressed and Probability Storm sequence added some quirky light relief.