THB #317: Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania

45 years ago, they told us we would believe a man could fly. And we did.

11 years after that, Batman took the comic book movie dark and funny, but the biggest innovation was adding cool hand-to-hand combat to the mix and an animated security system for the Batmobile.

But it was 21 year ago that everything really changed for the comic book movie. Spider-Man. We believed a teen could swing.

To celebrate the (kinda) 21st birthday of the CG-driven comic book epic, 2023 starts with Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania. All grown up! And for the first time in Marvel history under Kevin Feige, the tail is wagging the dog. Too much. Just too much.

We have seen this before, to different degrees. The most recent example was Black Adam in October… but in that case, the story was a problem. Too much smashing, not enough story.

But the thing about Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania is that the story is fine. What has been so charming about the Ant-Man films is that they have all the Marvel froo-froo, but th…