Okay, perhaps it is a false impression to say that “Quantumania” is a full left-field flip for the franchise. Whereas the plot holds all kinds of ramifications for the broader world of the MCU, the guts of the story stays entrenched in Scott Lang’s makes an attempt to restore the estranged relationship together with his daughter, Cassie (Kathryn Newton). Earlier than Kang reveals up, the movie follows a really comparable construction to previous Ant-Man adventures, the place the diminutive hero stays principally involved with securing his household’s security in any respect prices. And even after Kang arrives on the scene and fully upends the stakes of the story, the script provides us one thrilling throwback sequence to the earlier two “Ant-Man” films that propels “Quantumania” into its last act: a heist.

After Cassie’s experiments into exploring the Quantum Realm go horribly unsuitable and alerts a possible means of escape to the banished Kang inside, our heroes discover themselves trapped on this microscopic world — with solely Janet Van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer) having any experience in any way of the threats they will quickly face. Hopelessly cut up up into two separated teams, it is solely a matter of time earlier than the creepy MODOK (that is Mechanized Organism Designed Just for Killing, natch) descends upon them, reveals himself as a returning, deformed Darren Cross (Corey Stoll) from the 2015 film, and delivers Scott and Cassie proper into the menacing palms of Kang.

Having spent years exiled within the Quantum Realm after Janet’s sabotage of his multiverse-traveling ship, Kang lastly sees a means out … and he’ll want Scott’s assist. Blackmailed into recovering the facility core that Janet used Pym Particles to place past Kang’s attain, Scott ventures down within the movie’s trippiest sequence and, with some well timed assist from Hope (and, uh, himself?), barely makes it again unscathed with the facility core in hand.