Feb 2023
Disney has officially turned Ant-Man 3 into a Star Wars movie. When I first heard that, I thought Guardians of the Galaxy would obviously be the more suitable candidate for Star Wars rip-off, but nope. This movie is way more Star Wars rip-off than Guardians, for sure. It's full of wacky aliens, dumb robots, weird sci-fi visuals, rebels versus the empire, blasters, and more. The main difference is that instead of dealing with outer space, it deals with inner space.
It also ripped off Rick & Morty pretty hard, particularly s2e1 with the Schrodinger's cat state of uncertainty bit. Obviously, I'd draw a comparison to the Vindicators 3 episode about the character 1-Million-Ants, but that's obviously a rip-off of Ant-Man himself. Then there's the obsession with one's holes and how many holes one has, which brings me right back to the Eyeholes Man...
So the movie itself doesn't waste any time getting into the quantum realm, where we're overloaded with a CGI visual feast that's enough to make any naturalistic film fan gag. I bet 95% of this movie was CGI. The story is okay, using some convenient retonning to weasel the new big-bad into the story, but the dimensional logic doesn't hold up, particularly in the rate of time-passage we established in previous films, but whatever. Marvel is already terrible with their continuity, constantly revising their timeline on account of them winging it with every project, despite allegations of a master plan.
I like Paul Rudd as much as the next guy, but his character is pretty thin here. His whole team is generic, and the only character worth a damn is the villain. No, I'm not talking about MODOK. They changed that character's backstory and made him even dumber. He looked stupid, he acted stupid, and he was completely... fucking... stupid. I'd take that shitty Patton Oswalt Hulu garbage over this bogus MODOK, and I hated that show!
Jonathan Majors as Kang is the only saving grace here. His variant in the Loki show was quite interesting, and he gets to play a more comics-accurate version of the character here. He gives off vibes of Vader, which is funny because Kang is allegedly a descendent of Dr. Doom, and Doom was the direct inspiration for Vader. That's pretty much full circle there.
I will also point out that there is no time-travel in this movie, which is one of Kang's trademarks. Instead, it focuses more on the multiversal aspect, but without actually venturing there. The plot will make sense of it, when it isn't being boring with its super formulaic plot. At least it's better than Ant-Man 2. That movie was complete garbage.
It also ripped off Rick & Morty pretty hard, particularly s2e1 with the Schrodinger's cat state of uncertainty bit. Obviously, I'd draw a comparison to the Vindicators 3 episode about the character 1-Million-Ants, but that's obviously a rip-off of Ant-Man himself. Then there's the obsession with one's holes and how many holes one has, which brings me right back to the Eyeholes Man...
So the movie itself doesn't waste any time getting into the quantum realm, where we're overloaded with a CGI visual feast that's enough to make any naturalistic film fan gag. I bet 95% of this movie was CGI. The story is okay, using some convenient retonning to weasel the new big-bad into the story, but the dimensional logic doesn't hold up, particularly in the rate of time-passage we established in previous films, but whatever. Marvel is already terrible with their continuity, constantly revising their timeline on account of them winging it with every project, despite allegations of a master plan.
I like Paul Rudd as much as the next guy, but his character is pretty thin here. His whole team is generic, and the only character worth a damn is the villain. No, I'm not talking about MODOK. They changed that character's backstory and made him even dumber. He looked stupid, he acted stupid, and he was completely... fucking... stupid. I'd take that shitty Patton Oswalt Hulu garbage over this bogus MODOK, and I hated that show!
Jonathan Majors as Kang is the only saving grace here. His variant in the Loki show was quite interesting, and he gets to play a more comics-accurate version of the character here. He gives off vibes of Vader, which is funny because Kang is allegedly a descendent of Dr. Doom, and Doom was the direct inspiration for Vader. That's pretty much full circle there.
I will also point out that there is no time-travel in this movie, which is one of Kang's trademarks. Instead, it focuses more on the multiversal aspect, but without actually venturing there. The plot will make sense of it, when it isn't being boring with its super formulaic plot. At least it's better than Ant-Man 2. That movie was complete garbage.
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