Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania - Review Embargo MEGATHREAD

Rotten Tomatoes: 51% from 167 reviews (5.70 avg. rating)

CRITICS CONSENSUS: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania mostly lacks the spark of fun that elevated earlier adventures, but Jonathan Majors' Kang is a thrilling villain poised to alter the course of the MCU

Metacritic: 50 from 39 reviews

Screendaily: Has greater stakes and a grander canvas than the more lighthearted previous chapters of the Ant-Man saga [although] the results are more predictable than spectacular.

Variety: The third "Ant-Man" film is a piece of Quantum Realm psychedelia that's at once fun and numbing.

Consequence (B+): The film might be key to kicking off the big arcs to come in the MCU Phase 5, but it doesn’t forget to have a good time.

USA Today: Jonathan Majors shines as Marvel's 'Quantumania' veers off track

The Guardian (3/5): Rudd returns in his incredible shrinking suit to meet Kang the Conqueror and a teen sucked into the subatomic Quantum Realm, but familiar joys are absent

CNET: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is a lot of fun, carried along by a charming gang of goofball heroes dropped into a weird and wonderful world to face a villain who's big enough to change the entire franchise. The plot might not be anything innovative, but the trippy visuals and some interesting themes prove that bigger isn't always better.

Bleeding Cool (6.5/10): A mess of a film that fails to capture the things that made the first two films great and chooses instead to spend its entire two-hour runtime setting up for later payoffs.

Collider (B-): starts out as a promising Ant-Man film, and quickly becomes the Kang show, for better or worse, thanks to an excellent performance by Jonathan Majors.

The Verge: Watching the third Ant-Man film is sort of like being on a Marvel-themed acid trip that’s actually pretty fun until it comes to a confusingly abrupt halt.

Radio Times (4/5): The film is a great way to get Phase Five of Marvel’s masterplan underway, and also works perfectly as a standalone adventure.

Gizmodo: Doesn’t reach the heights of its previous two films in terms of overall cohesion, but what it lacks there, it more than makes up with in raw ambition.

Inverse: The problem with Quantumania is that it’s not a movie, it’s a building block, an undercooked, overstuffed action movie that feels like a shadow of better pulpy adventure sendups before it.