I love how they point out that Kang has literally destroyed billions of people along with killing the avengers multiple times, yet he loses in a fist fight to a Baskin Robbins employee.
wasnt it cuz he was exiled and lost all his powers tho like when we first see him hes just a normal dude and he only gets back his suit before his ship breaks again
The fact that Janet was so vague not wanting to tell hank and hope saying “there’s no time. You just have to trust me” there was literally all the time in the world.
They took what could have been HOURS travelling from the weird coral forest to the desert to that city, and every time they asked the same questions with her being so ANNOYINGLY vague. It’s like the second they’re off-screen they literally stop existing, cuz you KNOW there was time to walk and talk
@@MarcyStevonshy it also takes 2 seconds to be like "I don't want to talk about being in the QR but there is a deadly civilization down there that could wipe out the universe so lets not fuck with that"
I have to admit, I was terrified when Kang said he had 500 million power on Rise of Kingdoms but then got even MORE terrified when Hank said he had 900 Million power and used the Ant Colony with a 20% boost in colonizing and Intelligence. Truly an epic moment that I will definitely remember forever.😌😌😌
@@francjameso yes, Hank says it when they discover ants in the Quantum realm I think. (I honestly don’t remember much from the movie other than the Kang guy)
I think Charlie should keep a spoilers talk section at the end, so that people who've seen the movies can come back and listen to what he had to say about the spoiler related stuff.
After leaving the theater about 30 minutes ago, I can confidently say that this movie was one of the goofiest movies I have ever seen. I think my brain is on 400 ping rn because I can barely even think after what I just saw
@@_Hyphema_ Bro I hated so much how they did Modok and to kill him off in the end?!? He was a evil character to be made fun at and that’s my main gripes about this movie
When they shows off MODOK's face for the first time in the theatre I went to watch the film at, the entire theatre erupted in a very audible laughter. It was absolutely hilarious. I do admire their attempt for trying to accurately adapt the comic counterpart, but man the VFX definitely needed more time. It's ironic how one of the main plot points of the film is Kang wanting to grant Janet more time, and yet Marvel Studios refuses to do the same for its VFX hires.
It's pretty telling how I've seen about every Marvel movie once roughly at the time each came out, and I still remember the older ones much more clearly than the more recent ones.
Yeah, I’ve seen 90% of them in theaters, and multiple times at home, and you’re talking about these new ones like it’s been decades in-between, when in reality, Endgame was only 5 years ago, if you can’t remember a movie you watched only a year ago vs vividly remembering one you watched 10 years ago, then you have some serious memory problems, or some serious nostalgia goggles
@@MyNameIsRow01 I don't think you remember what you had for breakfast last week. Neither your breakfast nor the recent movies have been eventful enough for either of us to remember.
I had the exact opposite effect on Kang the Conqueror. If anything, this movie was the first one that I felt should have presented him as a legitimate threat, but ended up making him feel like that annoying returning villain in video games that keeps popping up to harass the players, when the player just wants to move on. The things he said about his experiences and how much power and influence he has, and the way he was ultimately defeated with such ease only served to give the impression of a weak wet towel of a villain. The end credits also didn't really do any better of a job, introducing other Kangs that all looked like complete jokes.
@@dylanburns8759 Ant Man and Wasp punched him a bit until they were blown back, the quantum army didn’t even get 1 clean shot on him, the ants are ants and modok just kamikaze’d to lower his shields so that ants could do ant stuff
This movie is trying to prove a point. That we will be introduced to the weakest-strong Kang and then build our way up to Kang Dynasty/Secret Wars Kang. I’m honestly cool with the fact they killed him off because there’s still the council and the multiversal war going on
@@Us3r739 I mean that'd be a fair point, and would make sense, if that wasn't the strongest Kang. The council feared him, and banished him into the quantum realm because that's all they could do. The strongest Kang was beaten by a single Avenger already, for all his chest puffing and pompous speeches about him having killed multiple avengers, he sure was ill-prepared, careless, and got his ass handed to himself. And he was "the most feared".
You mean how marvel writing went from good to political? Apparently all teenage girls are geniuses now, all male heroes are idiots, fuck the patriarchy, everyone's an activists for no reason and making fun of men is a good thing
You are absolutley right, the VFX industry is famously overworked and underpaid, and there has been a big push to unionize recently because of how poorly the editors and VFX studios are treated. There are too many ridiculous examples where big movie studios literally refused to pay VFX companies for their work, or gave them unbelievably short deadlines.
That's a BS excuse. There are RUclipsrs who produce better effects for as a hobby. Marvel VFX artists are lazy and Marvel for some reason is OK with releasing half assed effects.
@@bryanf6638 This is so far from the truth there really is no point in arguing. You are not required to give your opinion on things you aren’t knowledgeable about.
Ngl for a guy that created that pile of manure in more than it should have took( probably 2weeks) known as Godslap all this guy should review its how many shts he takes per day. The movie sucks too.
There was a point in the movie where there were ants walking in the background and the animation just stopped rendering the ants walking and they froze in the background.
I mean when every scene is 90% CGI, and you have to make 2 movies or shows a year, can't really blame the vfx team for slipping up. Honestly commendable they've kept up this well.
Team? It’s not one team that consistently works on this stuff. It’s often multiple different companies, all bidding on the project. There could be three different companies on one film, then two different companies on the next film.
i cant believe these are called movies anymore movies are supposed to be art (atleast for me as an aspiring filmmaker it is) its not supposed to be "slipped up" if people sre paying their money to see it. like shows i get it but movies? this is just disrespect. look at the captain america movies. man i miss the time where atleast something was real :(
They’re actually stretching the workforce to a pretty short timeframe & budget-wise thin situation right now. They’re groups of multiple contractors, not an employed situation like in some game development I’m pretty sure there are trade/industry articles covering this situation Also, to the person comparing live action CGI to Mappa, which does full animation, I gotta say the medium’s still quite different. In pure animation, you don’t have nearly the same challenges of blending/emulating with reality the way you do in live action CGI. Because visually, there’s no “grounding” that can trigger an uncanny valley experience easier and takes a viewer’s suspension of disbelief on a snap. Although being said that, anime fans do tend to have that quick reaction too when 2D is mixed with 3D, so it’s not exclusively a live action CGI thing, but it’s much easier to happen in live action
Vfx houses dont often get to negotiate revenue sharing like actors do. Lucasfilm was one of the only studios to actually pay vfx teams fairly. Its less about the vfx team slipping up and more about disney refusing to pay them their worth.
Having the special kang that all the others are afraid of get defeated by ants in his first appearance completely undercuts the threat of any other kang that might show up
I was thinking this same thing. I'm not even convinced he's going to be a bigger threat than the faceless randos they had to fight off in Avengers 1. They were also aliens with advanced tech coming at them in big numbers. Sure Ant Man and pals had trouble, but relative to the other Avengers in terms of firepower that's not saying a lot?
You missed the part where they mentioned he was not fully powered. He was doing the best with the limited whatever’s still left in his original flying chair shit. If y’all gonna criticize then do it with the facts. It’s aight overall though. Comic movie doing comic movie stuff
@@hectorhernandez7472 oh so youre saying that a fully powered kang MIGHT have a chance against ants. oh wow! what a truly powerful villain for hawkeye to go high diff with!
Majors’ Kang had such a strong screen presence and was so legitimately threatening at first that I was starting to think this would be a decent film. So you can imagine my delight by the end as he just sorta hopelessly watches as big scott fcks sht up like he can’t teleport outside and end him in a second, and how his energy blasts, which were just ATOMIZING people, just kind of pushes the main characters pretty far, oh and how the sight of ants makes him “kind of forget” to use his powers. I’m suspending my disbelief to have fun watching very small people battle for the fate of the multiverse, but please writers, at least try to make is make a bit of sense within your own context.
Definitely Majors was not the problem in this movie. And what I'm guessing is he's not dead, he'll return in Dynasty of Kang and I'm guessing he's in even a more smaller universe and he'll slowlu work his way up, which makes sense but seeing Kang on and on makes it a bit boring
Kang being aware that Marvel hasn’t been good since Endgame and saying “I Kang’t do this anymore” before leaving the movie was the best scene since the last Marvel movie.
Wasn't the new Black Panther movie good? I haven't kept up with Marvel because I lost interest with phase bore but i've heard people say that one was the exception.
Saying “marvel hasn’t been good since endgame” is a poor attempt to generalize after a checkpoint. After endgame we got Spider-Man Far from home & No way home,Shang chi,wandavision,Loki,moon knight,hawkeye,multiverse of madness,werewolf by night,guardians of the galaxy holiday,and wakanda forever. I personally liked more than that but I was just mentioned what is generally considered “good”.
@@koreboredom4302 that's what's baffling me ngl, are they subatomic size or it really is just a different universe where size is relevant because even if they get bigger in the quantum realm they shouldn't get tired that much since they are still pretty small.
Man I really wish Charlie had a spoiler section on his moist meters, because for people that have seen the movie really would like to hear his opinion explained further, myself included. Maybe at the end of the video?
@Mr Glass yeah like if you are gonna watch a movie but haven’t watched it yet and you worry about spoilers, then why would go watch a video of someone talking about the movie, and if he warns about spoilers then just live the video lmao. I agree with you.
I was watching the ending wondering the whole time why they had their helmets off like a wandering headshot from the hundreds of shots flying by wouldn't stop the whole thing for either of them.
I actually really liked the first 2. This felt like a fever dream, like if you made AI watch Marvel movies and then have it make its own. I enjoyed some of the scenes as “so bad its good” like almost every scene with Modok, the one where they eat the squid alive and then it becomes big and eats them. Or the one where they’re huge and hug each other and talk about food… Listing them out like that, it also does sound like a fever dream. There definitelly are memorable and even enjoyable parts, just the movie as a whole is a mess. As someone who is a fan of surrealism, I like fever dream movies. I understand though that might not be the case for most people.
I liked it for that reason too. Everything was just flying around in chaos and confusion as the movie went on. I came in thinking the quantum realm as explained in marvel doesn't make sense so it was natural for it not to make sense. I came in just wanting to see the introduction of kang and the craziness of time. I was entertained the entire movie
You’re too highbrow for this channel, my friend. You should start your own channel. I agree with your take for the most part. But Marvel movies (up until the last 3) have been phenomenal in evoking strong emotions and creating tension. Strong story arcs and storytelling. This movie fell well short of that. Everything since MoM has kind of been a mess. There’s surrealism, but there is also a distinct lack of focus and concision with storytelling and plot. At least it wasn’t Love/Thunder or Wakanda Forever. Those afflicted me with a depression from which I will never recover.
The fact that the trailers spoiled basically the entire movie is pretty upsetting, too. It’s not a new thing for trailers to do that nowadays, but so little happened in this movie that it makes it that much worse
Anyone watching trailers is doing it to themselves in 2023. Do you really NEED a marvel movie trailer? Is there anything the trailer is going to do for you that a poster cant?
@@andrewdiaz1631 Trailers give you a glimpse at the tone of the movie, gives you sneak peeks at some of the setup of the movie and should provoke questions about what happens throughout the movie. There are some trailers out there that still don’t spoil the movie, and sometimes it’s almost impossible to not watch trailers, especially if you frequent the theater and catch the trailer reels before other movies. That’s a pretty bad argument that you should just not watch trailers because a poster gives you everything a cinematic trailer does 😂
@@andrewdiaz1631 Sometimes people don't go out seeking to watch a trailer on RUclips. Trailers are shown before other movies, and during giant events like the Super Bowl.
I was certain they couldn't have possibly spoiled Ant Man's big hero mic drop in the trailer, and that it was some kind of misdirection, but here we are...
My only issue with Kang was how he became a pushover when Scott and Hope came to fight him at the end. Dude was controlling everyone with his tech, telekinesis shit and all that, and he was DISINTEGRATING PEOPLE left right and center. Then Scott and Hope show up and, well, he can't disintegrate anyone? He can't manipulate anymore? It's like playing a fighting game and suddenly forgetting all of the inputs of the character you're playing. I mean, if it showed that his suit was running out of power or something I would understand but it did not show that, so he just became a pushover by the end. Also a nitpick I have is how often they remove their helmets. Like, can you keep them on for more than 10 seconds without taking them off? I dunno it's just super distracting for me, and also kinda sucks for the team that put time into making the costumes see that a specific and crucial part of their work is just glossed over. Edit: people for the love of God I am talking about the moment before the ants showed up for crying out loud. How difficult is it for you to understand? Holy shit you are dense. And why do you bring up the part that he needed them to get the core? What part of "fight at the end" do you not understand?
Yup the Kang power thing was definitely an example of rush or inexperience writer, like they don't know how to find a way to make a villain op beating everyone but have the main character beat him in an interesting way. Though the final battle when Kang demolishing Scott by punching is fun though
@@flochforster6892 and before the ants came in he became a pushover still. He is deleting people from existence left and right but now he can't do it? They don't even give a reason as to why he can't, he just doesn't do it. Same thing for the ants, they didn't even have any special tech or anything, they just, well, did the same shit that Thanos' army did in Infinity War, throw bodies at him until it breaks.
Am I the only one who was laughing out loud at the post credit scene? The pharaoh Kang? 🤣 my goodness it looked like a Halloween costume. The council of kang looked goofy!!
the funniest part about this movie was that in the scene where modok is introduced, the camera briefly cuts to a man on a turret aiming towards the sky, and i swear to god he looked like jschlatt
bruh this movie just reminds me how much Avatar the way of Water is just beyond everything I have ever seen of CGI. MCU needs to take points and maybe only release 1 movie a year like damn
MCU releasing just 1 movie a year is completely unrealistic given how many characters exist in Marvel comics. These actors can’t portray them for 50+ years lol
@@hectorhernandez7472 this is such a stupid point. it was just a bad joke and modok's character turnaround made no fucking sense. it's not surprising at all that this is the screenwriter's first movie
I think it’s an achievement in a way that every single review I’ve seen of this have all been exactly the same. It’s like the world all collectively came together on this one, “Kang good, rest of movie bad, right we got it”.
Every single review is the same because the hive mind can't come up with its own opinion. The sheep decided it was bad before it came out because "marvel bad". Sheep these days only get their opinions from memes and mid youtubers.
@@goobadoob I'm starting to think that the only people who use the word "sheep" are chronically online folks who think they're cool for being contrarians. Just because their opinions are similar doesn't necessarily mean they're joining a bandwagon. Sometimes, people just happen to agree with each other because they came to similar conclusions from their own respective experiences. The Earth's population is reaching the 8 billion milestone (if it hasn't already), so that shouldn't come off as a surprise to you.
I almost went to see Quantumania recently, but instead I went to see Puss In Boots: The Last Wish One of the best decisions I have ever made because holy shit it was amazing!
I feel like one of the main issues with Quantumania is that from the start it probably wasn't meant to be the kick-off point for the new phase, So they wanted to make a specific movie but then because they also wanted to make it more. My theory is that the original plot had Modok (with the same backstory) as the main villain, with Kang being the "shadowy mastermind behind the whole thing" revealed at the end. But then the higher ups were like, "Nah we did that with Thanos already let's have Kang be the main villain." so they just rewrote the whole script to fit the "grander phase design". Multiverse of Madness had similar issues. Originaly Wanda wasn't supposed to be the main villain. But because one of the script writers or something saw that they were building up to Wanda becoming a villain he wanted to make that movie so he fundamentally altered the movie to steal Wanda as a villain from a future movie, with no real plan on how to make Multiverse of Madness good with evil Wanda.
weird because they can just make 2 movies and profit more from good storytelling, instead they rushed their own IP for no reason, even anime know better to milk popular series
My biggest gripe was i thought the movie was going to hold way more weight when it came to setting up the next phase but honestly outside of that 1 post credit scene literally nothing really happened. It just felt like they were back to the same position they were at the start of the movie.
That's not the worst thing. Ant Man movies have for the most part been pretty self contained, with any consequences only being apparent after the movie. If there's one thing they should capitalize on, is that Scott is the only person on earth that knows that something big is coming and coming for the Avengers.
Returning to status quo is not a bad thing in movies. If you view this film as nothing other than a cog meant to move the mcu narrative forward then yeah it’s bad, but as a stand-alone movie it works. MoonKnight was a great example of a stand alone story within the mcu
Tbh I'd say see for yourself for your own opinion. I came into this movie with very low expectations because of the scathing reviews and I ended up really enjoyed it. It's not a masterpiece or MCU's best but I'd say if you liked Antman 1 and 2, then you'll most likely like 3.
Ah yes, hates Ant-Man 1 and 2, but still wonders if he’ll like the 3rd, that’s like someone hating Fast and The Furious, but still going to see every film after it like they’re opinion will be somehow be changed by one movie
I think people are just tired of the marvel formula. because to be honest, i didnt think this film was much different to any other recent marvel movies. As you said, i don't think its bad, or good.. its just in the middle. It's literally no different to the other films, and im a bit confused to why anyone is acting like its any different.
That ending killed me. I was thinking, but this is the "good" Kang. Then Antman said, "Wait, was that a good Kang? Are there even worse Kangs?... Oh well, movies over."
i’m glad it finally answered the question we’ve all been asking: who would win, and almighty conqueror who has destroyed entire universes, or a bunch of ants with 1000 years of prep time
I think that Charlie should make a version of the moist meter where he talks about spoilers, or at least movies he's passionate about just so we can get more iconic lines from him
Seeing that scene where Scott and his daughter were running through an active war zone was such a sensory overload. I thought I was gonna have a seizure, it was so jarring 😵💫
Maybe it's because I have ADD but when it came to any action scene I had no idea what the fuck was going on. Between so much happening on screen, general dark lighting in the quantum realm and cuts every two seconds.
@@DK-Phantom- bro i don't have ADD, and some of the cations scenes in this were so fucking blurry and mushed together. I had no idea wtf was going on. I love my actin scenes, but marvel always has really dog action.
Has Charlie had a hooping reawakening out of nowhere? Ive noticed him talking about basketball a lot recently. Im into it myself so itd be dope to see him playing or talking about the NBA more
Id describe Modok as a punching bag with spikes on it? Like he's for sure the butt of a lot of jokes cause he just looks like that but he's also powerful enough to be taken seriously when he gets serious. Like, ironman will make fun of him the whole time but they still call iron man himself for Modok, ya know?
Modok was cool for like 5 seconds when he comes in just effortlessly killing the villagers. I was really hoping he’d be an even more angered and heartless murder than he was in the first any man
So the deal with MODOK is that in the comics, he get made fun of all the time. However, he was still the leader of AIM, an super genius, and-as his name entails-designed for killing. He’s a fairly heavy hitter in the comics.
I think marvel has fully committed to the route of filming movies with the intent to make them extremely marketable to get people into theaters and make a lot at the box office and completely give up on trying to make the movies actually good. I mean they've already been like this since the first avengers, but this and love and thunder were filmed solely to make a lot of cool ads by shoehorning cool characters into the movie for marketing but giving them a really minor and insignificant role in the film
I took edibles before I saw this movie and reached my peak level of high right as MODOK is revealed and it was a beautiful moment. I giggled for like 10 minutes straight, and then I started thinking about him filming his scenes and giggled some more. 10/10 would recommend this experience
I think the movie needed to be another 40 minutes or so long, because you can tell a lot of likely important stuff got cut out. I wasn’t expecting them to go very deep into Kang’s abilities or motivations, since that’s what phase 5 and 6 are meant to do as a whole. Loki Season 2 will probably do some more heavy lifting when it comes to Kang
The actors acted, the director directed, the critics criticized and the public saw this movie, yeah this movie will be remembered as one of the movies of all time. And yes I will say it: Antman and the Wasp: Quantumaniais the BESTmovie of all Antman and the Wasp: Quantumania movies
You gotta admit today's reviews really are worth their weight, Disney really does a good job hiding a bad script with so much CGI it makes anything look good Like seriously, It's just crazy how you don't realize how bad the writing is until you try to summarize it up to a friend
That's why these movies will continue to be made exactly the way they are now. No reason to change what's successful, even if they can make it better, because that's a risk I'm the type that doesn't feel like complaining about writing, etc. until after watching so I don't ruin my enjoyment, but even I couldn't ignore some of the plot beats and shallow dialogue. If people start seeing through the CGI they'll be in trouble.
(SPOILERS) Modok does usually get laughed at by characters like Thor, Spider-Man, Iron-Man, etc in everything he shows up in, he’s just a really goofy looking character. But some versions of him are insanely intelligent and powerful. But 99% of the time he just gets clowned on. Also the MCU Modok has a completely different origin story and identity than the standard Modok. It’s not Darren Cross/Yellow Jacket. If anything I’m glad they didn’t try to make Modok cool. Instead they embraced his weirdness.
In my opinion, they could've done the whole clowning thing along with making him actually threatening instead of being the punching bag of the whole movie all the time. The clowning thing works in the comics and shows because the writers actually make him powerful when he needs to be too
That it happens in the comics doesn't mean it was a good thing to start with. Having a goofy character solely here to be clowned on and laughed at every single time is not funny, it's just annoying and lazy. "haha character bad" is not humour in on itself
Same. Altho my theater was mostly empty. I let out some sensible chuckles at certain things, like MODOK's ass shot and the reveal that the Ants were a Class 2 society, but beyond that, it was a very sober affair. For the first time ever at a theater, I wished there were noisy patrons there with their noisy kids, just to give the room a little energy.
@@h.ar.2937 It's just a totally unrelated clip of Loki and Mobius in old-timey clothes watching a exposition from a Nikola Tesla-like version of Kang and Loki telling Mobius this guy means trouble.
Please...I beg you for all that's still good for this rotten world... Find some help, my friend, get a life.... cleanse your soul, and you will find peace
Marvel has been treading water since endgame. They have no idea where they want to take this now and half the characters people actually liked aren't even part of the MCU anymore. Marvel is just a corpse floating down a river at this point.
This film is definitely different in terms of tone from the first 2 films, it feels like everything was actually on the line. Scott drowning in his own variants was very claustrophobic and him getting brutally beaten by Kang actually made you doubt for a moment that Scott was gonna make it out alive. The fact that Scott still had a feeling that the threat was still lingering at the end of the film when he questioned his own choices really made me feel uneasy.
It absolutely did not. Before the final fight, It was super clear that ant-man would get in a 1v1 with Kane, lose, and one of the other characters would save him. It feels like there’s no stakes, the story beats are INCREDIBLY predictable, and Kang himself is very underwhelming. This movie is 2 hours of a nothing burger and is so much less enjoyable than the other ant man films Not only that, but the writing was so mediocre it’s not even worth mentioning.
Scott being beaten up by Kang would have had more impact if I hadn’t seen Kang get defeated by fûcking ANTS. The tone was all over the place this movie, serious and tense moments undercut by the goofiest shit possible happening immediately before and immediately after (Cassie opening the portal IMMEDIATELY cuz she’s just soooo smart, making Hope and Scott being temporarily stranded feel worthless. Just leave the portal open for them to walk through at that point)
The problem with the VFX in this movie was not that the quality of the artists' work is declining, it's because this entire movie was clearly shot with a "fix it in post" mentality. There's an overconfidence in the massive overworked army of artists that they didn't bother to design much of anything before they shot, so 90% of the film is just actors in front of a green/blue screen interacting with nothing. What you get is a weird, disconnected mess with poorly implemented compositing and set extension. To be fair, I think that actually kind of works for this film. It's all clearly very fantastical and you're not meant to take it seriously for the most part. Ant-Man as a series is a comedy. Whether you find it funny or not is up to taste but I'm a bit confused why anyone was expecting anything other than a comedy.
Honestly, every time MODOK had his mask lifted, I just couldn't help but laugh. With his mask down, he looked alright, but his goofy ass face had me laughing harder than all the jokes in the movie combined.
Kang: “You’re an avenger? Have I killed you before? After time they all blur together. You’re not the one with the hammer are you?” Also Kang: *Gets beaten in a fight by a bunch of large ants*
I’ll give the movie this, when he was done threatening his daughter he did call him Ant Man to say ‘yeah I have in fact killed you so many times I know you’. That was a clever bit, it’s a shame they didn’t let that person write the rest of the script
Seriously though it's pretty pathetic. I realize he was missing a bunch of equipment and whatever from being trapped in the realm, but he was still shown to be powerful enough that he could just flick his wrist and crush every bone in a person's body or vaporize them with a quick blast that the Ant suits just so happen to protect you from. He states he's killed all the Avengers multiple times... then gets taken down by the Ant-Squad and some random rebels? The rebels were basically inconsequential though, so basically 100% the Ant-Squad? Thanos was a massive threat so I don't doubt they can make Kang into one as well, but this is a ROUGH start. One version of him lets a Loki stab him with no resistance then another version gets beat by these guys. AND the aftercredits scene makes the Order of Kangs or whatever look like a bunch of loonies.
@@cyber_xiii3786 Incompletely agree (although He Who Remains was more than happy to be stabbed, he was actively wanting it to happen). All of the Kangs at the end of the movie looked really goofy, especially the one that kept screaming. Like wtf is he so excited for? If this movie was truly just meant to set up Kang and make him seem like a dangerous threat, then they failed miserably.
It's not over worked, it's that they save the big budgets for the big movies and it ruins everything... we don't just want badass looking finale movies, we want all of it.
Cassie legit had it in her to say "There are people who still need help, Dad" I mean like "I'm sorry how many times have you saved the universe again?"
your point makes zero sense... Shes obviously saying that the world still needs help. Just because he saved it once doesnt mean its saved forever??? how do you not get that?
@@gabepyramids3216 she is brat, like biatch shut up, your dad literally saved all of y'all TWICE. What the hell does she know about heroism - protesting? Lmfao...
@@gabepyramids3216 she’s just extremely stupid and naive. She got herself arrested for literally no reason in the beginning of the movie because of her own stupidity.
I love how they point out that Kang has literally destroyed billions of people along with killing the avengers multiple times, yet he loses in a fist fight to a Baskin Robbins employee.
But didn't he dominate that fight for the most part?
wasnt it cuz he was exiled and lost all his powers tho like when we first see him hes just a normal dude and he only gets back his suit before his ship breaks again
Baskin Robbins always finds out...
mf really lost to ants ☠️
exactly that made no sense to me lmao everything in this movie was just too simple
"Stop being a dick" what masterpiece writing to change a person's mind and personality.
@Don't Read Profile Photo ok, I won't
MODOK didn't even need a redemption, he could just be a jerk and enjoy every minute of it, like Jack Horner in Puss in Boots.
@@PedroHenrique-mz3we that would’ve been way better
The writing is unmatched
It's almost on the same tier of godlike storytelling like Morbius or Thor:Love and Thunder
well now imagine the cinemas in my country censored that word. yes. it's just cut out and it sounded very awkward.
The fact that Janet was so vague not wanting to tell hank and hope saying “there’s no time. You just have to trust me” there was literally all the time in the world.
Yeh I always hate that trope in movies.
EXACTLY i was like "fucking spit it out goddamn"
Yeah tbh I hated that shit
They took what could have been HOURS travelling from the weird coral forest to the desert to that city, and every time they asked the same questions with her being so ANNOYINGLY vague. It’s like the second they’re off-screen they literally stop existing, cuz you KNOW there was time to walk and talk
@@MarcyStevonshy it also takes 2 seconds to be like "I don't want to talk about being in the QR but there is a deadly civilization down there that could wipe out the universe so lets not fuck with that"
I have to admit, I was terrified when Kang said he had 500 million power on Rise of Kingdoms but then got even MORE terrified when Hank said he had 900 Million power and used the Ant Colony with a 20% boost in colonizing and Intelligence. Truly an epic moment that I will definitely remember forever.😌😌😌
LMFAOOOOAOA
truly a rok moment
“Skill issue, bud”
~ Hank
@@Osai1234 😭😭😭😭😭😭
@@KrofM indeed 🤌🏼🤌🏼
Charlie could say anything about this movie but his tone would still make it sound like he fell asleep in the movie theater
I almost did
Yeah keep riding that Charlie meat 🥩
I did
@@dougadot9127 i literally fell asleep it was so bad, my girlfriend had to wake me up
I slept through the movie and woke up at the start of act 3 and my mate was like to me you didn’t miss anything
Can we talk about how kangs guards were the absolute equivalent of storm troopers in terms of just about everything
Friend said it look like a Star Wars sequel
Nah they were the equivalent to goombas from the mario bros
one thing that baffles me is why did kang leave janet with two of those stormtroopers. they're absolutely worthless there's no way he's that dumb
@@gatomeong handcuffs would fix a lot of problems xD also Kang had telekinetic powers or whatever he stopped Janet once before just like that
No
The scene where they showed modok’s ass was truly peak cinema
It truly was the funniest thing to have ever graced cinema, I couldn't stop laughing I had trouble breathing
Real
Definetly a top 3 post endgame moment
The fact that this isnt a meme is the funniest part
Everytime modok made an appearance me and my friends laughed
“You lost because we beat you” no really these writes are genius
There where so many dumb lines like this through the movie 🤦♂️
The dick line was trash
"if you die, you stop being alive"
Truly the ant army is made out of ants
@@sebastiansuazo2734 the writers definitely failed ela class 😂
“Ants never give up” - Oscar Winning Script right there
Is that actually a line? Lol
It’s a movie called antman what do you expect💀
@@francjameso yes, Hank says it when they discover ants in the Quantum realm I think. (I honestly don’t remember much from the movie other than the Kang guy)
@@francjameso Unfortunately, yes.
_"Size doesn't matter"_ - Where's my Oscar?
I loved it when Kang the Conqueror failed to Conquer an Ant Army. Truly a Thanos-level Threat.
The Ants are a Thanos lvel threat and they were the best part of that whole movie. Hank Pym defeating Khang with his ants.
I didn’t watch it yet
"Now this is an Avengers-level threat"
He only got outsmarted
That's lowkey the best part of the movie though. Hank rolling up with the ants was goated.
I think Charlie should keep a spoilers talk section at the end, so that people who've seen the movies can come back and listen to what he had to say about the spoiler related stuff.
I agree
or so people who have no intention of seeing the movie can listen to what he has to say about all the spoiler related stuff.
Its weird cause I thought he did spoilers before towards the middle or end of the review before he gives it a score
Maybe I'm just misremembering
@@hollowbox5723 I know he's done that on a few movies before
@@hollowbox5723he did for quite a few moist meters, then ppl jumped into his twitch chat to complain and so he stopped
After leaving the theater about 30 minutes ago, I can confidently say that this movie was one of the goofiest movies I have ever seen. I think my brain is on 400 ping rn because I can barely even think after what I just saw
Next time my dad wants to beat me I'll just say "don't be a dick" and he'll stop and become a better dad.
@@_Hyphema_ Bro I hated so much how they did Modok and to kill him off in the end?!? He was a evil character to be made fun at and that’s my main gripes about this movie
@@_Hyphema_ at least its still better than "dO BetTeR" and "DonT CalL tHeM TerrOriSt"
@@chargedcreeper510I agree, I wanted to see Modok and AIM in Captain America New world order
Fr it was def the worst marvel movie by far
It's not an underwhelming movie, but certainly whelming.
it's whelmin' time
Very apt reference there. Not overwhelming, not underwhelming, why isn’t anyone ever just *whelmed?*
Young justice has gotta be top 5 childhood shows for me
@@seeksolace2059 the only show were I've heard that word
If you know this reference, you’re a real one
When they shows off MODOK's face for the first time in the theatre I went to watch the film at, the entire theatre erupted in a very audible laughter. It was absolutely hilarious. I do admire their attempt for trying to accurately adapt the comic counterpart, but man the VFX definitely needed more time. It's ironic how one of the main plot points of the film is Kang wanting to grant Janet more time, and yet Marvel Studios refuses to do the same for its VFX hires.
It totally looked like something out of a late 90's DOS adventure game.
They could have atleast added in detail to his face to make it more intresting
pretty sure that was the point, it’s supposed to be a comedic part of the film. you can’t make a live action modok and not have it look dumb
I mean, it's MODOK we're talking about here. MODOK was always intended to look like a joke in the comics. There's no real way to get around it.
it looked good, how about u make him look better
It's pretty telling how I've seen about every Marvel movie once roughly at the time each came out, and I still remember the older ones much more clearly than the more recent ones.
Tbh
Yeah, I’ve seen 90% of them in theaters, and multiple times at home, and you’re talking about these new ones like it’s been decades in-between, when in reality, Endgame was only 5 years ago, if you can’t remember a movie you watched only a year ago vs vividly remembering one you watched 10 years ago, then you have some serious memory problems, or some serious nostalgia goggles
@@MyNameIsRow01 I mean that everything after No Way Home is a blur.
@@own4801 ah, so less than a year ago, you should see a doctor then
@@MyNameIsRow01 I don't think you remember what you had for breakfast last week. Neither your breakfast nor the recent movies have been eventful enough for either of us to remember.
I had the exact opposite effect on Kang the Conqueror. If anything, this movie was the first one that I felt should have presented him as a legitimate threat, but ended up making him feel like that annoying returning villain in video games that keeps popping up to harass the players, when the player just wants to move on.
The things he said about his experiences and how much power and influence he has, and the way he was ultimately defeated with such ease only served to give the impression of a weak wet towel of a villain.
The end credits also didn't really do any better of a job, introducing other Kangs that all looked like complete jokes.
How was he easily defeated tho. Took antman wasp casy, the quantum army, a swarm of super tech advanced ants and modok just to hurt him.
@@dylanburns8759 Ant Man and Wasp punched him a bit until they were blown back, the quantum army didn’t even get 1 clean shot on him, the ants are ants and modok just kamikaze’d to lower his shields so that ants could do ant stuff
This movie is trying to prove a point. That we will be introduced to the weakest-strong Kang and then build our way up to Kang Dynasty/Secret Wars Kang. I’m honestly cool with the fact they killed him off because there’s still the council and the multiversal war going on
He was naive anyways for liking Janet when he could have just killed her and left with the time machine.
@@Us3r739 I mean that'd be a fair point, and would make sense, if that wasn't the strongest Kang. The council feared him, and banished him into the quantum realm because that's all they could do. The strongest Kang was beaten by a single Avenger already, for all his chest puffing and pompous speeches about him having killed multiple avengers, he sure was ill-prepared, careless, and got his ass handed to himself. And he was "the most feared".
Love how Marvel writing went from: serious, to still serious with some humor sprinkled in, to good to see the writers for Friends found work again.
it’s not serios anymore, and barely any of the jokes actually hit
@@yungestNcharge1 he covered that by mentioning Friends.
You mean how marvel writing went from good to political? Apparently all teenage girls are geniuses now, all male heroes are idiots, fuck the patriarchy, everyone's an activists for no reason and making fun of men is a good thing
Ignorant AF
**Chandler Voice**
“Could he *BE* anymore clear he mentioned Friends?”
do you mean the comics or just marvel movies? because if you mean the movies, it literally started with Iron Man which was silly lol
You are absolutley right, the VFX industry is famously overworked and underpaid, and there has been a big push to unionize recently because of how poorly the editors and VFX studios are treated. There are too many ridiculous examples where big movie studios literally refused to pay VFX companies for their work, or gave them unbelievably short deadlines.
That's a BS excuse. There are RUclipsrs who produce better effects for as a hobby. Marvel VFX artists are lazy and Marvel for some reason is OK with releasing half assed effects.
@@bryanf6638 This is so far from the truth there really is no point in arguing. You are not required to give your opinion on things you aren’t knowledgeable about.
@@bryanf6638 there's a big difference between creating a 2 hour long film and a 10 minute video on RUclips
@Kamtzy And it’s all thanks to corporate greed! 🎉
@@bryanf6638 I'm sure those other youtubers also have Marvel/Disney breathing down their necks with thousands of revisions
I love Charlie telling us that Godslap would be a great Christmas Gift in February
Never hurts to be prepared lol
Ngl for a guy that created that pile of manure in more than it should have took( probably 2weeks) known as Godslap all this guy should review its how many shts he takes per day.
The movie sucks too.
I knew I wasn’t the only one who heard him say Christmas in February 😂
There was a point in the movie where there were ants walking in the background and the animation just stopped rendering the ants walking and they froze in the background.
That's genuinely incredible
For maximum immersion release an ant farm in the theater so you're constantly surrounded by ants 🐜👍👍
I saw that part
.....what?
Yeah vfx slipups are becoming more and more common
I mean when every scene is 90% CGI, and you have to make 2 movies or shows a year, can't really blame the vfx team for slipping up. Honestly commendable they've kept up this well.
Team? It’s not one team that consistently works on this stuff. It’s often multiple different companies, all bidding on the project. There could be three different companies on one film, then two different companies on the next film.
Studio mappa would do a better job and they are stretched much more thin than marvel studios
i cant believe these are called movies anymore
movies are supposed to be art (atleast for me as an aspiring filmmaker it is)
its not supposed to be "slipped up" if people sre paying their money to see it. like shows i get it but movies? this is just disrespect.
look at the captain america movies. man i miss the time where atleast something was real :(
They’re actually stretching the workforce to a pretty short timeframe & budget-wise thin situation right now. They’re groups of multiple contractors, not an employed situation like in some game development
I’m pretty sure there are trade/industry articles covering this situation
Also, to the person comparing live action CGI to Mappa, which does full animation, I gotta say the medium’s still quite different. In pure animation, you don’t have nearly the same challenges of blending/emulating with reality the way you do in live action CGI. Because visually, there’s no “grounding” that can trigger an uncanny valley experience easier and takes a viewer’s suspension of disbelief on a snap. Although being said that, anime fans do tend to have that quick reaction too when 2D is mixed with 3D, so it’s not exclusively a live action CGI thing, but it’s much easier to happen in live action
Vfx houses dont often get to negotiate revenue sharing like actors do. Lucasfilm was one of the only studios to actually pay vfx teams fairly. Its less about the vfx team slipping up and more about disney refusing to pay them their worth.
Having the special kang that all the others are afraid of get defeated by ants in his first appearance completely undercuts the threat of any other kang that might show up
The Ants are athe best part of that whole movie. Hank Pym defeating Khang with his ants.
I was thinking this same thing. I'm not even convinced he's going to be a bigger threat than the faceless randos they had to fight off in Avengers 1. They were also aliens with advanced tech coming at them in big numbers.
Sure Ant Man and pals had trouble, but relative to the other Avengers in terms of firepower that's not saying a lot?
Yeah they built him up to be this major badass then the ants beat him it was so lame
You missed the part where they mentioned he was not fully powered. He was doing the best with the limited whatever’s still left in his original flying chair shit. If y’all gonna criticize then do it with the facts. It’s aight overall though. Comic movie doing comic movie stuff
@@hectorhernandez7472 oh so youre saying that a fully powered kang MIGHT have a chance against ants. oh wow! what a truly powerful villain for hawkeye to go high diff with!
Majors’ Kang had such a strong screen presence and was so legitimately threatening at first that I was starting to think this would be a decent film. So you can imagine my delight by the end as he just sorta hopelessly watches as big scott fcks sht up like he can’t teleport outside and end him in a second, and how his energy blasts, which were just ATOMIZING people, just kind of pushes the main characters pretty far, oh and how the sight of ants makes him “kind of forget” to use his powers.
I’m suspending my disbelief to have fun watching very small people battle for the fate of the multiverse, but please writers, at least try to make is make a bit of sense within your own context.
Definitely Majors was not the problem in this movie. And what I'm guessing is he's not dead, he'll return in Dynasty of Kang and I'm guessing he's in even a more smaller universe and he'll slowlu work his way up, which makes sense but seeing Kang on and on makes it a bit boring
Did wonder why he didn't use his beam against the ants. Maybe it only works on people running away
Why do you think this Kang had a temp pad lol people always trying to out think these films making no sense at all. EVERYONE NEEDS TO HEAR MY OPINION
@@Alchemy.Gaming how does a timepad explain Kang getting conveniently weaker and dumber at the third act? Legit question Please make it make sense.
My favorite scene was when Kang said "it's conquering time" and he kanged all over
That scene where MODOK said to Kang "it's MODOK-ing time" was truly brillian in cinematic universe. That's how u write a good villain
They managed to put a Morbius joke in this movie? How long was it in development? They must have shoehorned that in.
I personally think when kang said he was cumming was awesome
Hilarious dude.
It's Awesome to see a Varient of Charlie Reviewing this Movie.
Yeah cause you definitely already saw this
@@clara104 hush
Yeah
Eren Yeager what is freedom the freedom to live truly to who you are with no rules? Because if yes then you'd be a psychopath and I love it
was this your plan all along Eren?
Kang being aware that Marvel hasn’t been good since Endgame and saying “I Kang’t do this anymore” before leaving the movie was the best scene since the last Marvel movie.
cAnt Man: I'm Out
Wasn't the new Black Panther movie good? I haven't kept up with Marvel because I lost interest with phase bore but i've heard people say that one was the exception.
Oh my god that joke was fucKang stupid.😜
@God damnit Obama I had a stroke reading this ngl but thanks anyway
Saying “marvel hasn’t been good since endgame” is a poor attempt to generalize after a checkpoint. After endgame we got Spider-Man Far from home & No way home,Shang chi,wandavision,Loki,moon knight,hawkeye,multiverse of madness,werewolf by night,guardians of the galaxy holiday,and wakanda forever. I personally liked more than that but I was just mentioned what is generally considered “good”.
By the way this movie is written, this makes Shang-Chi beyond a Thanos-level threat
I was amazed how they managed to fuck up ant man so bad that shang chi could be considered a lucrative alternative
@@volkan2097 wrong
@@ProdLucio right
Honestly i liked shang chi. The cgi was pretty terrible but the story wasn’t bad and it really fixed the stupid shit in iron man 3.
I dont think you guys understand... If ANT-MAN can land a hit against a universal powerhouse, Shang-Chi would wipe the floor with any villain.
I loved when they where BOTH huge and Scott says “I feel like I’m hugging Godzilla” yah logic checks out.
They aren't even big. They shrank so they were in fact smaller.
Paul Rudd makes me cringe. He’s the whitest dude I’ve ever seen, he looks like he eats at subway
@@koreboredom4302 that's what's baffling me ngl, are they subatomic size or it really is just a different universe where size is relevant because even if they get bigger in the quantum realm they shouldn't get tired that much since they are still pretty small.
Man I really wish Charlie had a spoiler section on his moist meters, because for people that have seen the movie really would like to hear his opinion explained further, myself included. Maybe at the end of the video?
or a link to an unlisted 2nd vid in the description
@@moonverine nah I think a second video is unnecessary and even unpractical
@@swisstikkie9583 he could just spoil in the video.. the entire comment section is spoilers
@@waitingondeletion yeah it is, I agree
@Mr Glass yeah like if you are gonna watch a movie but haven’t watched it yet and you worry about spoilers, then why would go watch a video of someone talking about the movie, and if he warns about spoilers then just live the video lmao. I agree with you.
I also couldn't help, but noticed about the amount of "helmet on & helmet off" with Antman, Wasp, Cassie, & Kang throughout the movie
IM GLAD IM NOT THE ONE WHO NOTICE
Like dear god, keep your fucking helmet on
Holy crap, exactly! Like pick a lane already!
I’m glad other people dislike this. They would literally trade blows for seconds at a time and immediately take the helmet back off. Like what???
I was watching the ending wondering the whole time why they had their helmets off like a wandering headshot from the hundreds of shots flying by wouldn't stop the whole thing for either of them.
It’s like black Adam when the hero who is known for always having his helmet on randomly takes it off all the time to speak
Best part was when Jschlatt was on the machine gun for like 10 seconds before dying.
DUDE I KNEW I WANST THE ONLY ONE WHO THOUGHT THAT GUY LOOKED SO MUCH LIKE SCHLATT LMAO
I thought it was post malone lol
Didn't watch the movie and I thought you were just lying
ok like, I literally thought the same thing once I saw that guy-
glad I’m not the only one who noticed how schlatt-looking that guy was
Lmfao you're right
I actually really liked the first 2.
This felt like a fever dream, like if you made AI watch Marvel movies and then have it make its own.
I enjoyed some of the scenes as “so bad its good” like almost every scene with Modok, the one where they eat the squid alive and then it becomes big and eats them. Or the one where they’re huge and hug each other and talk about food…
Listing them out like that, it also does sound like a fever dream. There definitelly are memorable and even enjoyable parts, just the movie as a whole is a mess.
As someone who is a fan of surrealism, I like fever dream movies. I understand though that might not be the case for most people.
I liked it for that reason too. Everything was just flying around in chaos and confusion as the movie went on. I came in thinking the quantum realm as explained in marvel doesn't make sense so it was natural for it not to make sense. I came in just wanting to see the introduction of kang and the craziness of time. I was entertained the entire movie
You’re too highbrow for this channel, my friend.
You should start your own channel.
I agree with your take for the most part. But Marvel movies (up until the last 3) have been phenomenal in evoking strong emotions and creating tension. Strong story arcs and storytelling.
This movie fell well short of that. Everything since MoM has kind of been a mess. There’s surrealism, but there is also a distinct lack of focus and concision with storytelling and plot.
At least it wasn’t Love/Thunder or Wakanda Forever. Those afflicted me with a depression from which I will never recover.
@@richy2258Wakanda Forever was the best of Phase 4
This movie is nowhere near as visually appealing nor does it have enough mindfuckery to be considered “surrealist” in any sense of the word.
The only thing that is surreal is how they managed to make a movie about exploring a quantum universe so soulless and mind numbingly boring as this.
The fact that the trailers spoiled basically the entire movie is pretty upsetting, too. It’s not a new thing for trailers to do that nowadays, but so little happened in this movie that it makes it that much worse
Anyone watching trailers is doing it to themselves in 2023.
Do you really NEED a marvel movie trailer?
Is there anything the trailer is going to do for you that a poster cant?
@@andrewdiaz1631 Trailers give you a glimpse at the tone of the movie, gives you sneak peeks at some of the setup of the movie and should provoke questions about what happens throughout the movie. There are some trailers out there that still don’t spoil the movie, and sometimes it’s almost impossible to not watch trailers, especially if you frequent the theater and catch the trailer reels before other movies.
That’s a pretty bad argument that you should just not watch trailers because a poster gives you everything a cinematic trailer does 😂
@@andrewdiaz1631 Sometimes people don't go out seeking to watch a trailer on RUclips. Trailers are shown before other movies, and during giant events like the Super Bowl.
I was certain they couldn't have possibly spoiled Ant Man's big hero mic drop in the trailer, and that it was some kind of misdirection, but here we are...
My only issue with Kang was how he became a pushover when Scott and Hope came to fight him at the end. Dude was controlling everyone with his tech, telekinesis shit and all that, and he was DISINTEGRATING PEOPLE left right and center. Then Scott and Hope show up and, well, he can't disintegrate anyone? He can't manipulate anymore? It's like playing a fighting game and suddenly forgetting all of the inputs of the character you're playing. I mean, if it showed that his suit was running out of power or something I would understand but it did not show that, so he just became a pushover by the end. Also a nitpick I have is how often they remove their helmets. Like, can you keep them on for more than 10 seconds without taking them off? I dunno it's just super distracting for me, and also kinda sucks for the team that put time into making the costumes see that a specific and crucial part of their work is just glossed over.
Edit: people for the love of God I am talking about the moment before the ants showed up for crying out loud. How difficult is it for you to understand? Holy shit you are dense. And why do you bring up the part that he needed them to get the core? What part of "fight at the end" do you not understand?
Yup the Kang power thing was definitely an example of rush or inexperience writer, like they don't know how to find a way to make a villain op beating everyone but have the main character beat him in an interesting way. Though the final battle when Kang demolishing Scott by punching is fun though
The ants Hank brought in tore Kang’s suit apart. Without his suit Kang is just an ordinary man.
@@flochforster6892 pretty sure they meant before the ants came when Hope and Scott double team him.
@@flochforster6892 and before the ants came in he became a pushover still. He is deleting people from existence left and right but now he can't do it? They don't even give a reason as to why he can't, he just doesn't do it. Same thing for the ants, they didn't even have any special tech or anything, they just, well, did the same shit that Thanos' army did in Infinity War, throw bodies at him until it breaks.
@@TheNeroKennedy yeah he went from being a complete menace, to being an absolute pushover, back to being a menace
Sad that a top tier MCU character like Ant Man can't get a movie as good as his first one
Same for doctor strange
i liked 2 tbh
@@memescoffee3173 yeah I didn't think it was terrible but that might be just because I like the character
Any man 3 was fire
Bruh, AntMan 1 was also bad wdym. xD
They all sucked
Am I the only one who was laughing out loud at the post credit scene? The pharaoh Kang? 🤣 my goodness it looked like a Halloween costume. The council of kang looked goofy!!
Literally lmao
It looked like a joke. However the actual post credit scene with Loki looked really good (there were two post credit scenes)
The entire movie is a joke tbh
@@god.usopp2yearsago115 it's hard to tell these days
We wuz Kang lmao
the funniest part about this movie was that in the scene where modok is introduced, the camera briefly cuts to a man on a turret aiming towards the sky, and i swear to god he looked like jschlatt
SAME!!!
bro I thought that too
Exactly what I thought when I saw him
I genuinely thought he made a cameo
I literally turned to my friend next to me and said "Holy shit, I thought that was Schlatt for a second"
bruh this movie just reminds me how much Avatar the way of Water is just beyond everything I have ever seen of CGI. MCU needs to take points and maybe only release 1 movie a year like damn
kevin fiege needs to complete 10 phases before he dies
MCU releasing just 1 movie a year is completely unrealistic given how many characters exist in Marvel comics. These actors can’t portray them for 50+ years lol
“Stop being a dick” is the same level of writing as “you need to step up senator” 😂😂😂😂
You wanted some profound message from a teen?
@@hectorhernandez7472thats fair
@@hectorhernandez7472 this is such a stupid point. it was just a bad joke and modok's character turnaround made no fucking sense. it's not surprising at all that this is the screenwriter's first movie
Why does everyone need to share their shit takes
@@Alchemy.Gaming To see you cope
I think it’s an achievement in a way that every single review I’ve seen of this have all been exactly the same. It’s like the world all collectively came together on this one, “Kang good, rest of movie bad, right we got it”.
Every single review is the same because the hive mind can't come up with its own opinion. The sheep decided it was bad before it came out because "marvel bad". Sheep these days only get their opinions from memes and mid youtubers.
@@goobadoob or, hear me out, it’s such a meh experience that you can’t get anything out of it. Crazy I know
@@goobadoob movie was just fucking shit
@@goobadoob I'm starting to think that the only people who use the word "sheep" are chronically online folks who think they're cool for being contrarians.
Just because their opinions are similar doesn't necessarily mean they're joining a bandwagon. Sometimes, people just happen to agree with each other because they came to similar conclusions from their own respective experiences. The Earth's population is reaching the 8 billion milestone (if it hasn't already), so that shouldn't come off as a surprise to you.
i liked it alot cuz it was so weird
Best part was when that one girl asked the conqueror “who’s coming” and his reply was “I am…. A lot”
Peak script writing
Thats not true is it?
@@JeffreyAppSteam unfortunately it is true
@@helixarim371 Was it supposed to be threatening or was it in the middle of the gay sex scene with ant man
The best part was when ant man said its anting time and anted all over those guys
I almost went to see Quantumania recently, but instead I went to see Puss In Boots: The Last Wish
One of the best decisions I have ever made because holy shit it was amazing!
Smart choice
Excellent choice!
Puss in Boots The Last Wish is a masterpiece.
I am glad you made that decision,mate!
That moment when DreamWorks makes a better film, a spinoff, than Marvel Studios. We're truly in the cursed timeline.
I feel like one of the main issues with Quantumania is that from the start it probably wasn't meant to be the kick-off point for the new phase, So they wanted to make a specific movie but then because they also wanted to make it more. My theory is that the original plot had Modok (with the same backstory) as the main villain, with Kang being the "shadowy mastermind behind the whole thing" revealed at the end. But then the higher ups were like, "Nah we did that with Thanos already let's have Kang be the main villain." so they just rewrote the whole script to fit the "grander phase design".
Multiverse of Madness had similar issues. Originaly Wanda wasn't supposed to be the main villain. But because one of the script writers or something saw that they were building up to Wanda becoming a villain he wanted to make that movie so he fundamentally altered the movie to steal Wanda as a villain from a future movie, with no real plan on how to make Multiverse of Madness good with evil Wanda.
weird because they can just make 2 movies and profit more from good storytelling, instead they rushed their own IP for no reason, even anime know better to milk popular series
My biggest gripe was i thought the movie was going to hold way more weight when it came to setting up the next phase but honestly outside of that 1 post credit scene literally nothing really happened. It just felt like they were back to the same position they were at the start of the movie.
That's not the worst thing. Ant Man movies have for the most part been pretty self contained, with any consequences only being apparent after the movie.
If there's one thing they should capitalize on, is that Scott is the only person on earth that knows that something big is coming and coming for the Avengers.
Returning to status quo is not a bad thing in movies.
If you view this film as nothing other than a cog meant to move the mcu narrative forward then yeah it’s bad, but as a stand-alone movie it works.
MoonKnight was a great example of a stand alone story within the mcu
The fact that Ant-Man gave the ants superpowers to defeat Khang. Truly a Marvel movie
What? When?
Im sorry what?
What? When did that happen?
@@sanguine2552 it didn’t
@@sanguine2552 Right after the Morbius cameo
Ah yes, thank you Charlie for not going into spoilers on ant man 3 I was really worried about this one
Tbh I'd say see for yourself for your own opinion. I came into this movie with very low expectations because of the scathing reviews and I ended up really enjoyed it. It's not a masterpiece or MCU's best but I'd say if you liked Antman 1 and 2, then you'll most likely like 3.
@@inkblowout i appreciate this thought out comment, but unfortunately I absolutely hated ant man 1 and 2
@The Shannon Channel ah okay, you'll definitely hate it then lol.
Ah yes, hates Ant-Man 1 and 2, but still wonders if he’ll like the 3rd, that’s like someone hating Fast and The Furious, but still going to see every film after it like they’re opinion will be somehow be changed by one movie
I think people are just tired of the marvel formula. because to be honest, i didnt think this film was much different to any other recent marvel movies. As you said, i don't think its bad, or good.. its just in the middle. It's literally no different to the other films, and im a bit confused to why anyone is acting like its any different.
That ending killed me. I was thinking, but this is the "good" Kang. Then Antman said, "Wait, was that a good Kang? Are there even worse Kangs?... Oh well, movies over."
i’m glad it finally answered the question we’ve all been asking: who would win, and almighty conqueror who has destroyed entire universes, or a bunch of ants with 1000 years of prep time
I love how Charlie always references Big Mouth getting on 100% Rotten 🍅 every time he talk about them not being an accurate depiction lol
I can’t stop rolling every time he makes a reference to that show. It’s so ass idk why ppl praise it
Lol
Ant-Man 3 is truly one of the ant movies of all time
Original joke challenge (impossible)
Say something original! You're as bad as marvel itself.
@@masonmurphy5402 Bro is really upset that his unoriginal, formulaic Marvel movie is being memed on with unoriiginal jokes?
@@bikramarora1819 huh? How did you come to the conclusion that i even like or watched this movie? The jokes are overused and just not funny.
I think that Charlie should make a version of the moist meter where he talks about spoilers, or at least movies he's passionate about just so we can get more iconic lines from him
Seeing that scene where Scott and his daughter were running through an active war zone was such a sensory overload. I thought I was gonna have a seizure, it was so jarring 😵💫
Fr it looked like there were jogging at about 5 miles an hour but not getting hit because of plot armour, whilst everyone else was getting blown up
Dude fuck yeah it was I was stoned and watching in 3D I had no idea what was happening
Maybe it's because I have ADD but when it came to any action scene I had no idea what the fuck was going on. Between so much happening on screen, general dark lighting in the quantum realm and cuts every two seconds.
@@DK-Phantom- it’s definitely that, get checked, cut out caffeine please
@@DK-Phantom- bro i don't have ADD, and some of the cations scenes in this were so fucking blurry and mushed together. I had no idea wtf was going on. I love my actin scenes, but marvel always has really dog action.
Has Charlie had a hooping reawakening out of nowhere? Ive noticed him talking about basketball a lot recently. Im into it myself so itd be dope to see him playing or talking about the NBA more
Charlie ballin?
@@mr.punisher5100 yes
Id describe Modok as a punching bag with spikes on it? Like he's for sure the butt of a lot of jokes cause he just looks like that but he's also powerful enough to be taken seriously when he gets serious. Like, ironman will make fun of him the whole time but they still call iron man himself for Modok, ya know?
Modok was cool for like 5 seconds when he comes in just effortlessly killing the villagers. I was really hoping he’d be an even more angered and heartless murder than he was in the first any man
It actually recieved a coveted '5 bags of popcorn' rating from world's biggest film buff, Gregg Turkington.
Turkington should take Stan Lee’s place as the “cameo in every movie” guy
@@SuperSweetLucas shut up child
So the deal with MODOK is that in the comics, he get made fun of all the time. However, he was still the leader of AIM, an super genius, and-as his name entails-designed for killing. He’s a fairly heavy hitter in the comics.
Maybe there will be another MODOK since this was Yellowjackets version
MODOK could’ve been a whole avengers movie, it’s a shame he was just a minor antagonist
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I laughed my ass when my friend made that up during the movie
I think marvel has fully committed to the route of filming movies with the intent to make them extremely marketable to get people into theaters and make a lot at the box office and completely give up on trying to make the movies actually good. I mean they've already been like this since the first avengers, but this and love and thunder were filmed solely to make a lot of cool ads by shoehorning cool characters into the movie for marketing but giving them a really minor and insignificant role in the film
you still watching them, i never watch any marvel movies after endgame
7:30 yes Charlie it'd make a great Christmas present in FEBRUARY
Charlie's tone in any emotions he have is only one, which is so cool.
I took edibles before I saw this movie and reached my peak level of high right as MODOK is revealed and it was a beautiful moment. I giggled for like 10 minutes straight, and then I started thinking about him filming his scenes and giggled some more. 10/10 would recommend this experience
Every movie is good with the right amount of drugs.
i smoked a preroll and dabbed before watching and the same thing happened to me 😹
I farted and inhaled the fumes 100% recommended
when did you take the edible so i can time it right
@@GreenTacoma44 just take them 15 minutes before the movie 😌
The hardest laugh my friends and I had in the movie was hearing the guy behind us snoring.
I think the movie needed to be another 40 minutes or so long, because you can tell a lot of likely important stuff got cut out. I wasn’t expecting them to go very deep into Kang’s abilities or motivations, since that’s what phase 5 and 6 are meant to do as a whole. Loki Season 2 will probably do some more heavy lifting when it comes to Kang
I’m happy he actually brought up the bad cgi because I have seen no one talking about that so far.
Antman and the Wasp: Quantumania is certainly one of the movies of all time
saw this in the theater and i can definitely confirm it's a movie
One of the bad movies
@@Cocxy69 you ruined the joke
@@Cocxy69 ruined the momentum
The actors acted, the director directed, the critics criticized and the public saw this movie, yeah this movie will be remembered as one of the movies of all time. And yes I will say it: Antman and the Wasp: Quantumaniais the BESTmovie of all Antman and the Wasp: Quantumania movies
You gotta admit today's reviews really are worth their weight, Disney really does a good job hiding a bad script with so much CGI it makes anything look good
Like seriously, It's just crazy how you don't realize how bad the writing is until you try to summarize it up to a friend
it’s like a movie out of idiocracy. it’s so sad how ppl actually find this movie good
That's why these movies will continue to be made exactly the way they are now. No reason to change what's successful, even if they can make it better, because that's a risk
I'm the type that doesn't feel like complaining about writing, etc. until after watching so I don't ruin my enjoyment, but even I couldn't ignore some of the plot beats and shallow dialogue. If people start seeing through the CGI they'll be in trouble.
@@chrishernandez5965 hey, if people find it enjoyable then let them.
@@xenoemblem7 People say anything marvel throws out is good even she hulk which is awful
Disney found a cashcow formula and they’re beating this horse until it’s glue.
(SPOILERS) Modok does usually get laughed at by characters like Thor, Spider-Man, Iron-Man, etc in everything he shows up in, he’s just a really goofy looking character. But some versions of him are insanely intelligent and powerful. But 99% of the time he just gets clowned on. Also the MCU Modok has a completely different origin story and identity than the standard Modok. It’s not Darren Cross/Yellow Jacket. If anything I’m glad they didn’t try to make Modok cool. Instead they embraced his weirdness.
Tl dr, shoehorned character, useless, unecesaary
Agreed. I grew up on Super Hero Squad so seeing him was awesome
In my opinion, they could've done the whole clowning thing along with making him actually threatening instead of being the punching bag of the whole movie all the time. The clowning thing works in the comics and shows because the writers actually make him powerful when he needs to be too
@@MamadNobari "I was just pretending to be retarded"
That it happens in the comics doesn't mean it was a good thing to start with. Having a goofy character solely here to be clowned on and laughed at every single time is not funny, it's just annoying and lazy. "haha character bad" is not humour in on itself
this movie really helps with my insomnia. can't wait to get the digital so i can sleep soundly
*snore* mimimimimimi
it was wild being there opening night and literally no reaction from the audience until the second after credits scene LMAO
Bro I’m so hyped for Loki season 2 !!!!!!!
hell yeah. That was the most hype.
Can you spoil the post credit scene? I’m not interested in watching
Same. Altho my theater was mostly empty. I let out some sensible chuckles at certain things, like MODOK's ass shot and the reveal that the Ants were a Class 2 society, but beyond that, it was a very sober affair.
For the first time ever at a theater, I wished there were noisy patrons there with their noisy kids, just to give the room a little energy.
@@h.ar.2937 It's just a totally unrelated clip of Loki and Mobius in old-timey clothes watching a exposition from a Nikola Tesla-like version of Kang and Loki telling Mobius this guy means trouble.
MODOK's face reveal was awesome, my brother extremely audibly went "EUUGHH" in disgust when that helmet flipped up lmfao
Loved how when the camera stopped shaking at the end, ant man started shaking like a mad man
That scene where The wasp says “it’s quantum time” is crazy 🔥
is Morbius in this? I love that film.
Please...I beg you for all that's still good for this rotten world... Find some help, my friend, get a life.... cleanse your soul, and you will find peace
@@noccccccccccccc Why is this comment so funny to me
Dead joke. Go away
My favorite part is when Kang says " It's conquering time" and he kanged all over
Marvel has been treading water since endgame. They have no idea where they want to take this now and half the characters people actually liked aren't even part of the MCU anymore. Marvel is just a corpse floating down a river at this point.
Let’s just see some bad guy getting punched with a few winks at the source material. It literally never gets stale.
Shaky cam is a great way to hide the fact that the cgi isn’t finished
My mind was searching for the Shark Boy and Lava Girl reference the whole movie. Thank you.
This film is definitely different in terms of tone from the first 2 films, it feels like everything was actually on the line. Scott drowning in his own variants was very claustrophobic and him getting brutally beaten by Kang actually made you doubt for a moment that Scott was gonna make it out alive. The fact that Scott still had a feeling that the threat was still lingering at the end of the film when he questioned his own choices really made me feel uneasy.
If only the rest of the movie could have the same level of suspense and looming danger
It absolutely did not. Before the final fight, It was super clear that ant-man would get in a 1v1 with Kane, lose, and one of the other characters would save him.
It feels like there’s no stakes, the story beats are INCREDIBLY predictable, and Kang himself is very underwhelming. This movie is 2 hours of a nothing burger and is so much less enjoyable than the other ant man films
Not only that, but the writing was so mediocre it’s not even worth mentioning.
@@DashFlashTheLife ant man 1 was better but ant man 2 was worse than this cmon
You definitely nailed the best parts of the film.
Scott being beaten up by Kang would have had more impact if I hadn’t seen Kang get defeated by fûcking ANTS. The tone was all over the place this movie, serious and tense moments undercut by the goofiest shit possible happening immediately before and immediately after (Cassie opening the portal IMMEDIATELY cuz she’s just soooo smart, making Hope and Scott being temporarily stranded feel worthless. Just leave the portal open for them to walk through at that point)
The fact that the video has 0 dislikes says a lot about society
Nah RUclips stopped showing dislikes. Trust that it has a LOT
One of the movies of this year for sure.
The problem with the VFX in this movie was not that the quality of the artists' work is declining, it's because this entire movie was clearly shot with a "fix it in post" mentality. There's an overconfidence in the massive overworked army of artists that they didn't bother to design much of anything before they shot, so 90% of the film is just actors in front of a green/blue screen interacting with nothing. What you get is a weird, disconnected mess with poorly implemented compositing and set extension.
To be fair, I think that actually kind of works for this film. It's all clearly very fantastical and you're not meant to take it seriously for the most part. Ant-Man as a series is a comedy. Whether you find it funny or not is up to taste but I'm a bit confused why anyone was expecting anything other than a comedy.
I found Kang very intimidating up until the last 3rd of the movie
It's certainly one of the movies of all time.
Honestly, every time MODOK had his mask lifted, I just couldn't help but laugh. With his mask down, he looked alright, but his goofy ass face had me laughing harder than all the jokes in the movie combined.
Kang: “You’re an avenger? Have I killed you before? After time they all blur together. You’re not the one with the hammer are you?”
Also Kang: *Gets beaten in a fight by a bunch of large ants*
I’ll give the movie this, when he was done threatening his daughter he did call him Ant Man to say ‘yeah I have in fact killed you so many times I know you’. That was a clever bit, it’s a shame they didn’t let that person write the rest of the script
@@iron_dude_j0427 yeah, it’s a shame Kang makes that statement only to get folded by antman and wasp later and gets sucked into a cable
Seriously though it's pretty pathetic. I realize he was missing a bunch of equipment and whatever from being trapped in the realm, but he was still shown to be powerful enough that he could just flick his wrist and crush every bone in a person's body or vaporize them with a quick blast that the Ant suits just so happen to protect you from. He states he's killed all the Avengers multiple times... then gets taken down by the Ant-Squad and some random rebels? The rebels were basically inconsequential though, so basically 100% the Ant-Squad?
Thanos was a massive threat so I don't doubt they can make Kang into one as well, but this is a ROUGH start. One version of him lets a Loki stab him with no resistance then another version gets beat by these guys. AND the aftercredits scene makes the Order of Kangs or whatever look like a bunch of loonies.
@@cyber_xiii3786 Incompletely agree (although He Who Remains was more than happy to be stabbed, he was actively wanting it to happen). All of the Kangs at the end of the movie looked really goofy, especially the one that kept screaming. Like wtf is he so excited for? If this movie was truly just meant to set up Kang and make him seem like a dangerous threat, then they failed miserably.
Thousands of massive, hyperintelligent, technologically advanced ants, yes.
"Look how they massacred my boy..."
The first Ant Man was so good too lmao
its awesome to see charlie rate and review movies love it
Kang carried the movie i give it a 7/10
It's not over worked, it's that they save the big budgets for the big movies and it ruins everything... we don't just want badass looking finale movies, we want all of it.
MCU has gotten real dry ever since Endgame, is like they're trying to milk a corpse by now EVEN using one of their top villains
Ant-Man and the Wasp had a lot of heart. Loved the focus on family and the idea of second chances.
2:32 I remember googling him while in theaters and showed it to my brother, we couldn’t stop laughing
Modok and the Loki after credits scene are the best things to come out of this movie
Marvel’s descent into comfortable mediocrity is genuinely concerning. Imagine overworking your VFX artists for months just to get this
Marvel doenst over work their vfx artists. Vfx artists don’t even work for Marvel.. the studio does not control how much they work
Ant Man Quantumania, more like Can’t Man I Suffer from Mania
Cassie legit had it in her to say "There are people who still need help, Dad"
I mean like "I'm sorry how many times have you saved the universe again?"
your point makes zero sense... Shes obviously saying that the world still needs help. Just because he saved it once doesnt mean its saved forever??? how do you not get that?
@@gabepyramids3216 she is brat, like biatch shut up, your dad literally saved all of y'all TWICE. What the hell does she know about heroism - protesting? Lmfao...
@@murk4552 yikes. You have some serious issues. Get help.
@@gabepyramids3216 she’s just extremely stupid and naive. She got herself arrested for literally no reason in the beginning of the movie because of her own stupidity.
@@drcola143 ok. Actually what? This RUclips comment section is full of troglodytes lol. Embarrassing.
He said and man and the wasp was the worst, man forgot eternals, and I don’t blame him.
sub-optimal is literally charlie's new favorite word
Imagine if Kang peaced out at the start of the third act to wait until Kang Dynasty and Modok was the final battle instead😂