antman and the wasp quantumania is hitting the big screen imminently kicking off marvel phase 5 the followup to 2018s antman and the wasp sees the titular characters played by paul rudd and evangeline lilly and their respective families transported to the quantum realm where they must face off against kang the conqueror jonathan majors the movie has received mixed and lukewarm reviews from critics though with the threequel getting the secondlowest score on rotten tomatoes of any marvel movietotal films kevin harley writes that the movie can feel a little too much like a warmup for more from kang rather than its own standalone standoff landing flatly the anticlimactic finale suffers as a result but director peyton reed and screenwriter jeff loveness stir up enough soapy family intrigues and peril to bring out our diminutive heros bestall in all particularly when balanced against the weightiness of majorss performance quantumania nicely hits the mark its goofy but goofy to just the right degree says the independents clarisse loughrey however according to mashables kristy puchko the movie is a chaotic woefully unfunny mess that has forgotten why its hero was such fun the thrill isnt just gone its been buried beneath a swarm of plot contrivances and truly hideous cgicnns brian lowry says that the movie works on one key level establishing kang the conqueror as a truly formidable and worthy villain yet with its plunge into inner space antman comes up short in almost every other way that mattersthe guardians ellen e jones writes that majors brings the same emotionally intense itboy energy of adam driver in the force awakens a sentiment that associated press lindsey bahr echoes in part majors is certainly chilling and captivating but kang seems like a mismatched foe for a standalone antman film and the result is a quantumania that is trying to be too many thingsantman and the wasp quantumania arrives in theaters on february 17 in the meantime make sure youre up to date with the mcu with our recap of marvel phase 4