premise of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania It’s pretty simple: It’s Star Wars response Rick and Morty Meet Marvel’s least exciting superhero franchise. Aliens that look all weird! Spaceship! Giant Ants! Stubborn old men! The embodiment of evil confronts the embodiment of good!
But all that silly standard sci-fi stuff really makes one of these more interesting Marvel movies in a minute – at least aesthetically. This is a Marvel movie that isn’t afraid to be ugly, but has a purpose for once. So bad, in fact, that it even showcases by far the most disgusting-looking Marvel character in the cinematic universe.
(Warning: Spoiler ahead!)
MODOK is one of Marvel’s most memorable characters, thanks to his unique unsettling looks. I seriously question what drug Stan Lee and Jack Kirby took that inspired his creation, because MODOK looks like the brainchild of some heavy psychedelic dream. (I’m not speaking from experience.) He has the limbs of a child and the body of an oversized, overweight jellyfish. Introduced while wearing a metallic superhero suit, MODOK finally reveals himself to reveal that he has no neck, spine, or pelvis: He has a 100% face.
He is galloping! He is so scary! He was a character no one dared touch in the live-action world—until quantum, that is. And congrats quantum for getting one for the team and daring to bring this disgusting creature into live-action. MODOK’s arrival is by far the most interesting thing the movie has to do with it: He shows a willingness to really, really, really freak out about it. Like, horrible nightmare.
In the classic comics, MODOK—Mechanized creatures designed only to kill, for a long time—began life as George Tartelon, who underwent an experimental surgery to boost his mind. his intelligence. It backfired, turning him into a large-faced creature with poor mobility and bloodthirsty. At least he’s really smart though!
Paul Rudd as Scott Lang/Ant-Man, Kathryn Newton as Cassandra “Cassie” Lang, Evangeline Lilly as Hope Van Dyne/Wasp in Marvel Studios’ ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA.
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IN quantumMODOK is Scott Lang’s (Paul Rudd) Darren (Corey Stoll)’s former colleague/enemy, whom he defeated in the first match. Ant Man. For often complicated reasons, Darren was reincarnated as MODOK. The big reveal of who’s behind the mask makes Scott and his daughter Cassie (whom Darren, in his super-criminal form, nearly got killed) cringe—both because it’s Darren and because he looks horrifying. terrible. Instead of using the full CGI, director Peyton Reed decided to take Corey Stoll’s real face and edit it in a Photoshop-like fashion, enlarging and stretching it to many times its normal size.
As MODOK, Darren’s role is to help Conqueror Kang (Jonathan Majors) break out of the quantum realm and return to destroy the timelines. But really, he’s here to relieve the comics. His attempts to convince Scott and Cassie that he is a constant threat are mutilated by his goofy social awkwardness and gang-like limbs; even Kang could barely take him seriously.
Paul Rudd as Scott Lang/Ant-Man and Jonathan Majors as Kang the Conqueror.
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The good thing is that Darren is very funny, because otherwise he would be completely unbearable to look at. Worse, his MODOK would be a lazy way to introduce a fan-favorite comic book character into the MCU, only to get rid of him quickly. Instead, Darren offers some of the film’s best lines, including the words after his defeat that, thanks to his decision to help Scott, he “is dying like an Avenger”. (He doesn’t, but let the man die in dignity.)
Yeah, he’s gross, just what MODOK means. (Perhaps this is why his Hulu seriesin which Patton Oswalt voiced an animated version of the character, which was cancelled.) Between his comic style and boldly outlandish design, however, he delivered something interesting. , even hilarious, for a movie that lacks both of these traits.
It reminds me of last year Doctor Strange and the crazy Multiverse, a similarly gruesome film that did little but forced viewers to cut their throats. thank you director Sam Raimihowever, the film deals with body horror as shocking because of how grotesque it is. Marvel movies are generally animated, often unintentionally ugly; when Doctor Strange shows up as a resurrected corpse in the third act, it’s a surprising turn into offensive, counter-orthodox territory.
I don’t want more movies like quantum or Multiverse of madness, both of them explained the story spread thinly for two hours. But if the Marvel movies can continue to delve into their catalog of weird curiosities, I applaud that — and the worse the better.
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