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When they succeed, its because most of these elements are firing at full blast.
What does any of this have to do with Ant-Man or the Wasp (Evangeline Lilly)?
It all happens so quickly that I wondered if I was watching a dream sequence.
Look, Im getting bored just typing all this up.
More concerningly, it looks like the filmmakers themselves were bored putting it onscreen.
Or maybe they all just watched Taika WaititisThor Ragnarokonce.
But good luck finding any of Lucass earnestness or imagination, or Waititis irreverent prankster sensibility, here.
Everyone just kind of wanders through this movie through its elaborate, colorful, cluttered psychedelic-album-cover-style environments.
They occasionally crack jokes or cross their arms.
Nothing seems to match.
Most of his performance involves walking around and softly muttering his dialogue.
So the film fails on a basic, meat-and-potatoes comic-book-movie level.
The action is tired, the universe unconvincing, and nobody onscreen looks like they want to be there.
They dont even look like they know wherethereis.
Quantumaniamakes you appreciate even more the achievement of something like theAvatarfilms.
Maybe this patchwork quality was intentional, but as expressed onscreen, its a dogs breakfast of fantasy elements.
He looks like a Minion and Max Headroom had a baby.
I wont lie; I did laugh whenever he was onscreen.
Id probably watch a MODOK spinoff series.
But its hard to decide ifQuantumanianeeds more of this kind of joke, or less.
This is not humor designed to enhance what youre seeing, or even to cleverly undercut it.
It feels like a cry for help.
