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Just saw Quantumania! I thought it was really good, but had some issues.

First, I think the first half of this movie was really lacking. Just a lot of meandering around. A lot of "Janet what is happening?" "I don't want to talk about it." A lot of getting to know these random freedom fighters. A lot of stuff that frankly doesn't land nearly as well. There definitely could have been something else they did with this film.

Second, the moment Jonathan Majors comes into the picture as Kang, the movie gets so much better. That dude killed it. Loved everything about Kang. I've never been a huge Kang fan, but he was perfect here. Totally sold on Kang in future movies. Keep that outfit though, for the love of god. Everything about it was perfect.

MODOK was everything I wanted and needed. Give me goofy fucking MODOK. I feel he was very underutilized, but for what we got of a MODOK adaptation I was happy with it. I wish he had managed to make it out of the Quantumverse though. He would've been fun to play around with in the future. I thought his betrayal of Kang was kinda sudden. I feel like they should have built it up more.

I feel like Wasp was underutilized, even though the best action scenes continue to be with her. I feel like a lot of the family stuff didn't feel as cozy as the previous films either.

The action in the last part of the movie was outstanding though. Just everything I'd want from a movie like this. I kinda loved the super sophisticated ants part where they just overtake Kang. It looked totally rad.

But holy hell did I ever miss Luis and the other characters from the previous two movies. You're telling me you could fit in the Baskin Robbins guy in the movie twice, but you couldn't find a spot for Luis? What is that? I think they could have found a way to include a lot of the characters with a re-write. Maybe make it so only some characters were in the Quantum realm at first, while the others aren't and need to get help from Luis and others? Just a scene or two of Cassie with her mom and step dad? Hell, get Luis sucked in there somehow. He can just hang out with Hank a lot on the ship or something. There had to be something they could do to improve that first half, because man.

Aside from that, I kind of wish it had more humor. For as much as people dunk on Marvel for being too joke-y, Ant-Man of all things seemed like it toned it down a lot. There's scenes dedicated to jokes with random characters, and some MODOK stuff, but overall it seemed really toned down on the humor.

I don't think it really deserved the critical beat down it got. Definitely nowhere near the worst of the MCU movies. Definitely better than the vast majority of the TV offerings. I enjoyed it more than Thor Ragnarok, that's for sure. And I think I'd argue it was better than Wakanda Forever too.