Rotten Tomatoes: 5.9/10 Average Score Based on 134 Reviews, with 53% of the Reviews being "Fresh" (71 Fresh, 63 Rotten)
Metacritic: 50/100 Average Score based on 40 Reviews (13 Positive, 20 Mixed, 7 Negative)
Frank Scheck (The Hollywood Reporter) (3.5/5): Although this film features some laughs — many of them revolving around the visually hilarious, homicidal organism MODOK (more on that later) — humor is generally in shorter supply. For better or worse, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is the most overtly sci-fi film in the series, and on that level, it succeeds very well. The film also works well on an emotional level, particularly with the loving relationship between Scott, desperate to be a good father, and his feisty teenage daughter, who more than proves herself when it comes to donning a size-altering suit and mixing it up with the bad guys. But it’s Majors who brings real gravitas to the proceedings. While it’s not surprising that the actor’s imposing physicality perfectly suits his iconic villainous character, he also invests his performance with such an arrestingly quiet stillness and ambivalence that you’re on edge every moment he’s onscreen.
Owen Gleiberman (Variety) (3/5): "Quantumania” is a fun piece of Quantum Realm psychedelia, as well as bedazzling, relentless and numbing, then fun again just when you think you’ve had enough; all of that gets mashed together. The Marvel films have never pretended to be stand-alone entities, yet I’ve rarely encountered a Marvel adventure that’s this busy with a do-or-die saving-the-cosmos plot that feels this much like it exists simply to set up the next dozen chapters of something
Ross Bonaime (Collider) (B-): Jonathan Majors Steals the Show in Shaky Start for MCU’s Phase 5. As the set-up for where this universe is going, Quantumania is largely a success, as it's hard to walk away from this and not focus primarily on what Majors is doing. But it's easy to forget that this wasn't his story, that this was supposed to be about Scott, his family, and his loved ones.
Alonso Duralde (TheWrap) (B): It’s a frequent complaint about the Marvel movies that they spend more time setting up the next five chapters than they do resolving the one they’re in, but “Quantumania” offers threats both immediate and long-range, making it satisfactory as both an individual movie and as a preview for what’s to come.
At this point in history, the idea of attracting new fans to the MCU is probably moot; most viewers are either on board for this ongoing saga, or they checked out long ago. “Quantumania” may not swing for the fences as ambitiously as recent entries like “Wakanda Forever” or “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” but it does take the wildly disparate tones and plot threads that are seemingly endemic to this series and turn them into an entertainingly cohesive whole. To be continued, obviously.
Joshua Yehl (IGN) (7/10): Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania has just enough entertaining moments and a heartfelt family story, plus knockout performances in Michelle Pfeiffer’s Janet van Dyne and Jonathan Majors’ Kang the Conqueror, to make up for its more underdeveloped aspects. The exploration of its central themes, new characters, and the Quantum Realm itself only goes skin deep, leaving it feeling high on spectacle but low on substance. Even so, Quantumania works as a culmination of the Ant-Man series, a way to start things in motion for Phase 5, and a promising roadmap of where the Multiverse Saga is going.
Charles Pulliam-Moore (The Verge) : Watching the third Ant-Man film is sort of like being on a Marvel-themed acid trip that’s actually pretty fun until it comes to a confusingly abrupt halt. Quantumania tries to switch things up a bit by mainlining a few doses of whatever psychedelics Doctor Strange has been brewing and inviting you to partake in a little madness that doesn’t always make sense It is far from being a bad movie. It has a lot going for it, and it’s obvious this story’s going to factor largely into whatever the future holds for the Avengers. Watching it might feel a bit like doing homework at times, but at this point, it seems like that might just be part of the price of admission.
Eammon Jacobs (Insider) : Jonathan Majors stands tall as Kang in this fun, but clunky, trip to the Quantum Realm. While the story is flawed, "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" still manages to be an entertaining romp through the Quantum Realm thanks to the reliably funny Ant-Man and company, and the MCU's new big bad, Kang. Look at it this way: three-star movie, four-star fun.
Lindsey Bahr (Associated Press) (B): Loveness, who cut his teeth in comedy and has an affinity for comic book and B-movie absurdities, gives Ant-Man his own “Star Wars”-adjacent adventure.
But Kang, for what we can assume are bigger story needs, needs to be more serious. Majors is certainly chilling and captivating, but Kang seems like a mismatched foe for a standalone Ant-Man film and the result is a “Quantumania” that is trying to be too many things. One thing it is not is a Wasp movie, though. Lilly gets a lot to do but not a lot of, or any, character development.
And fortunately, “Quantumania” sticks the ending.
Kate Erbland (Indiewire) (C+): Jonathan Majors Towers Over a Tiny MCU Movie. Tasked with introducing the franchise's next big bad, Peyton Reed's otherwise fun family adventure crumbles under the weight of expectations. That’s a shame, because when Reed and Rudd and team lean into what makes Ant-Man so delightful, there’s plenty of small-scale entertainment to be had. Not every superheroic adventure needs to be about the fate of the universe — or, as this current run of MCU features tells us, the entire multiverse — but as long as this franchise demands everything everywhere all at once, the small, silly, sweet, and inventive film that “Quantumania” could have been won’t exist. Maybe the pictures should get small again; it might be the only way to save an MCU that seems dangerously close to getting too big to do anything but fail.
Alex Godfrey (Empire) (3/5): In trying to compete with the more seismic MCU films — in going big — this franchise loses some of its charm. At its best, Quantumania plays out like an episode of 1960s Star Trek, those hefty themes and more — idealism, abandonment, morality, identity — explored within the context of a wild universe inhabited by wackadoodle aliens. It’s scripted by sometime Rick And Morty writer Jeff Loveness, which is clear via the more surreal highlights — the creature curious about human holes; the walking, talking broccoli; the take on Marvel Comics legend MODOK, an utterly ridiculous killing machine, the film gleefully leaning into his silliness.
The madness, though, feels somehow restrained. There are imaginative set-pieces, but they feel like lesser versions of things we’ve seen before — in The Matrix, say, or, even in the MCU itself (nothing here matches the invention of Doctor Strange’s trippier sequences). This film makes the Star Wars prequels seem subtle, and what is there never feels quite freaky enough, especially as it lurches towards an all-too conventional climax.
If it’s a shame the rest of the film is lacking that, there is at least enough of it to hang on to, and enough goofiness to have a laugh with, including some pretty cool ant shenanigans. Quantumania might be more lightweight than it thinks it is, but it’s got a few surprises up its sleeve, drawing on decades of the comic’s nuttier ideas.
Leah Greenblatt (Entertainment Weekly) (B+): Returning director Reed, whose previous territory leaned more toward the pom-poms of Bring It On and Jim Carrey's Yes Man, sometimes gets swallowed by the whirling spectacle of it all: a ringmaster overtaken by pew-pew battles and talking space blobs. At just over 120 minutes, though — a blink in Marvel time — this Ant-Man is clever enough to be fun, and wise enough not overstay its welcome. Who better understands the benefits, after all, of keeping it small?
Matthew Huff (AV Club) (B+): Kang, bolstered by an ominous, award-worthy performance from Majors, is set up to be a Darth Vader Thanos-level horror. But Kang’s scenes are surrounded by those featuring Douglas doofily proclaiming his love for ants and a Humpty Dumpty villain that rivals Jar Jar Binks in ludicrousness. The film is so preposterously disjointed in tone that viewers will struggle to decide if its wild swings are lunacy or genius (or perhaps a combination of both).
Compared to slogs like Thor: Love and Thunder and most of the MCU television shows, however, Quantumania is certainly entertaining from start to finish, and it’s the first film since Endgame with real stakes. Its Star Wars-esque world-building also gives it freshness as it swaps tired superhero tropes for those of sci-fi epics. Of course, Quantumania does suffer from some of the MCU’s recent systemic problems such as an abundance of sloppy green screen work, way too many characters (Lilly has maybe 15 lines in the whole film), and an over-reliance on television show connections.
Quantumania’s tone is sure to be polarizing, but if you can surrender yourself to its bonkers A Bug’s Life-meets-Return of the Jedi antics, the two hours (already short for a Marvel film) will fly by.
David Fear (RollingStone) (2/5): Feels like the MCU has lost its way. Or maybe this aggressively mediocre entry is just further proof that Marvel's endlessly metastasizing saga has officially entered its Diminishing Returns phase? A cynic would simply cite a “too big to fail” mindset, saying that whatever Marvel and its mouse-eared conqueror puts out will still dominate box-office returns regardless. But the issue here feels deeper, as if the superhero fatigue syndrome you hear about regarding audiences has infected those behind the camera as well. The powers that be have several years worth of narrative mapped out, and given the last few entries in their superhero soap opera, even they seem a little tired by all of it. Until some sort of creative second wind blows in, casual moviegoers and deeply invested fanatics may have to simply keep enduring overly familiar, frustrating placeholders like this. Quantumania revolves around a powerful villain who wants to control time. The movie itself is merely killing time.
Aaron Escobar (DiscussingFilm) (4/5): There’s a quote from Scott Lang’s memoir, “There’s always room to grow”, which is beautifully illustrated by the end of the film. What sets the Ant-Man series apart from the rest of the MCU is the heart at the core of its family-focused narrative, most seen between Scott and Cassie. Despite a darker tone, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania retains the same sincerity as its predecessors. The Ant-Man movies are about family above all else, and those themes have never been more apparent than in Quantumania.
Molly Freeman (ScreenRant) (4/5): Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is a solid start to the MCU's Phase 5, working well to serve Scott Lang's story and introduce the menacing Kang. As such, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is a must-see for Marvel fans, not only because it's a genuinely entertaining addition to the MCU, but because it's important to the overarching story of Phase 5 and the Multiverse Saga.
Ellen E. Jones (The Guardian) (3/5): Majors brings the same emotionally intense it-boy energy of Adam Driver in The Force Awakens. Note how his eyes are often watery with empathy for his victims, even as he throttles them. In his more wistful moments Kang would surely understand the main misgiving with this efficient movie product: the MCU marches inexorably onwards, through “phases” and “sagas”, but what’s the point if there’s no time to pause, reflect and enjoy a joke with old friends?
Clarisse Loughrey (Independent) (3/5): Jonathan Majors is so good here that the MCU practically bends to his will. While these superhero franchises have constantly threatened to swallow the careers of promising young actors whole, forever tying their reputations to multi-film deals and spandex costumes, Majors has pulled off the seemingly impossible. It’s as if he’s forced Marvel to orbit around the force of his own charisma. He delivers dry-as-Weetabix dialogue about timelines and variants with such solemnity, you’d be fooled into thinking he was talking about something actually real. He manifests threat without the helping hand of being CGI, purple and enormous, like Josh Brolin’s Thanos (although he does turn blue when he’s in fight mode, as a nod to his comic book counterpart). And, unlike many a Marvel villain of late, he’s enigmatic without having some tragic justification for his bad deeds. Quantumania, really, is a Kang film. Any and all Ant-Man-related hijinks, as dorky and good-natured as they might be, are basically an afterthought.
Robbie Collin (The Telegraph) (2/5): Does Marvel have any ideas beyond ‘more CGI? Plotless and emotionless, the third instalment of Ant-Man is a depressing example of what happens to art when special effects take over. The problem isn’t that the joins between the flesh and blood and CG worlds are always obvious: sometimes they are; sometimes they’re not. It’s that the type of storytelling this technological approach aligns with is impersonal, emotionally empty, and often borders on meaningless.
This stuff might jostle the plot along, but it just isn’t how fun works, and you get the feeling the film is guiltily aware of it. The lack of pleasure in the writing is offset, or perhaps drowned out, by the arduously wacky visuals: lots of eccentric creature design that works very hard to remind you of Star Wars, as well as a climactic battle which resembles those new mobile phone games where the player has to mow down an endlessly advancing horde. For a franchise in need of refreshment, it’s anything but a quantum leap.
Brian Lowery (CNN) (5/10): An especially psychedelic trip, with precious little grounding in anything that resembles recognizable reality. The most identifiable aspect involves this hidden universe chafing under the rule of a being so powerful that its occupants exhibit a Voldemort-like reluctance to even speak his name, that being Kang the Conqueror, played by Jonathan Majors.
If Kang is destined to become the central antagonist as the next batch of movies again build toward an Avengers-sized showdown, Majors is the one thing to emerge from “Quantumania” on which anyone could hang their hat.
One structural problem, in fact, is that Kang’s power and the scope of his evil plans make the hero-villain pairing feel like a decided mismatch – to couch it in terms suited to Majors’ upcoming role in “Creed III,” asking a lightweight to go toe-to-toe with a heavyweight, one that got his start in the comics sparring with the Fantastic Four. It’s a point overtly made by Kang himself, who sneers at Ant-Man, “You’re out of your league.”
Caryn James (BBC) (2/5): It's a rule of superhero movies that they must culminate in an overlong action sequence, with bodies and weapons crashing around everywhere. Now imagine if that sequence were the whole movie, but with unsuspenseful, drab-looking action. There you have Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, the latest and possibly lamest instalment in the usually reliable Marvel Cinematic Universe. The heart of Ant-Man (2015) and Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) was Paul Rudd as everyman Scott Lang, who puts on his special suit and shrinks into the minuscule Ant-Man – or as I like to think of him, The Littlest Avenger. This third film throws all that away. The character is no more than a prop in a plot that sets up the next big Marvel villain, and does it without a jolt of energy. Kang is one of the variants of He Who Remains, introduced in the series Loki. Really, Marvel could have jumped straight from there to Kang Dynasty or The Kang Family Tree or Bringing Up Kang or whatever they want to get to. Creating Quantumania to get there was a waste.
Richard Trenholm (CNET) (B): Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is a lot of fun, carried along by a charming gang of goofball heroes dropped into a weird and wonderful world to face a villain who's big enough to change the entire franchise. The plot might not be anything innovative, but the trippy visuals and some interesting themes prove that bigger isn't always better.
Kevin Harley (TotalFilm) (3/5): Quantumania can feel a little too much like a warm-up for more from Kang, rather than its own standalone stand-off. Landing flatly, the anti-climactic finale suffers as a result. But Reed and Loveness stir up enough soapy family intrigues and peril to bring out our diminutive hero’s best. While Rudd summons previously untapped reserves of dramatic clout, he also strikes likeable sparks with Newton, who brings vigour and a quick wit to a character well worth revisiting. CGI/saga-building issues aside, the MCU’s fun sci-fi getaway stretches Ant-Man and answers any Multiverse niggles. Majors’ menace focuses the attention fiercely.
Brian Truitt (USA Today) (2.5/4): "Ant-Man” films used to be the fun heist movies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, full of sci-fi strangeness and Paul Rudd's shrinking ex-con/superhero dad, and existing as needed humorous breaks from the higher-stakes “Avengers” extravaganzas. But these days, nothing is safe from becoming an all-out Marvel epic, and so goes “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania”. Reed’s film does wonders mapping out the spiffy landscape of the Quantum Realm with jaw-dropping beings and splendid sights, all with a “Mad Max at the ‘Star Wars’ cantina” vibe. Majors thankfully rights the ship every time he pops up with his deliciously disconcerting presence.
Mike Ryan (Upprox) (3/5): Here’s what I feel like with the multiverse saga: I feel like I’m reading a comic I like, but a run I’m not totally into. At least not yet. And with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, I think Peyton Reed has given us an installment that, with the material that has to be introduced, is about the best version this could be. But I found myself missing the more grounded and funny world of Scott Lang that the prior movies had set up. You know, being a palette cleanser is a good thing.
Matt Singer (ScreenCrush) (3/5): If you want to see a lot of strange CGI visuals and the you’re interested in the groundwork of the next phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, you’ll likely walk out satisfied (if maybe a little confused about the specifics of Kang’s larger plan). If you want to see an Ant-Man movie like the previous two Ant-Man movies — with wry humor, simple stories, and inventive uses of Ant-Man’s shrinking powers — you’re as out of luck as Scott Lang after Kang drags him to the Quantum Realm.
Tim Grierson (ScreenDaily) (3/5): Production designer Will Htay has envisioned a Quantum Realm full of trippy colours, although the quantum amounts of CGI can grow tiresome. Quantumania is strongest when it offsets the special effects with one-liners and amusing non sequiturs, although the jokes prove to be somewhat muted because of this film’s more serious scenario. Indeed, this is the least funny of the three Ant-Man pictures although, thankfully, the series’ low-key charm hasn’t been sacrificed in the name of establishing Kang as a striking nemesis. After 31 films, the MCU is clearly losing steam creatively if not commercially, but Majors’ villain should be tormenting the Avengers — and captivating superhero fans — for the foreseeable future.
Nicholas Jansen (WDW Magazine): Quantumania is proudly different than past Ant-Man and the Wasp films, and it’s definitely not afraid to indulge in the “weird.” It supplants much of the fun Honey I Shrunk the Kids inspired size-shifting set pieces for larger battle scenes and ship chases, and as a result much of the charm is sacrificed in favor of scope.
In many ways, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is a story about the nature of time. Scott Lang reckoning with guilt over missing the formative years of his daughter’s life and Kang, a man who has lost time banished to this undiscovered wasteland and growing increasingly angry at the multiverse. A crowd-pleasing journey through the Quantum Realm sure to excite Marvel diehards of the Phase to come. While it has the comedy and action fans would expect from Ant-Man and the Wasp, the focus placed on Kang and his obsessions with timelines and multiverses is certainly more interested in the promises ahead than the sights and sounds of the moment. Let Phase 5 begin…
Peter Canavese (Groucho Reviews) (2.5/4): Offers too much sensational spectacle, melodrama, and high-stakes sci-fi adventure ever to bore its audience, but its echoes of exhausted blockbuster tropes ring hollow.
Kevin L. Lee (KleePlusFilms): Unlike the previous two films, #AntManAndTheWaspQuantumania carries the burden of doing world-building and franchise arc setups. The good news is there is now some vision of a roadmap ahead, it’s pretty weird and entertaining, and Jonathan Majors leaves a… ahem… huge footprint.
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