Funny / Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

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Broccoli never looked so quantum-y.

Yep, even a film with the MCU's most ruthlessly humorless villain yet has its moments of levity.

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• At the beginning of the film, Scott is walking around, on top of the world, finally recognized for his heroics. A nice elderly barista absolutely refuses to let him pay for his coffee... and then yells after him "Thank you, Spider-Man!" You can see Scott's ego deflating.
  • The best part? That was a real mistake on the part of the actor.
    Ruben Rabasa: It was crazy, I thought it was somebody else, I thought it was Spider-Man! So when I said, "Thank you Spider-Man!" everyone was like "what?"
• Scott ended up going on that date with Woo after all! On a double date, even, with the beef boy!
• Cassie opens the movie in jail for fighting with the police as they were clearing out a homeless camp. As Scott and Hope are about to leave with her, an officer angrily demands that Cassie return something. The officer is bald, so it's framed as though she's stolen his toupee. After making a show of denying haven stolen anything, Cassie produces a shrunken cop car.
• Scott complains about Cassie having Pym Particles, when the cops could have gotten them. She rolls her eyes and says "I wasn't going to lose the suit." He didn't know about that part.
  Scott: You have a suit!?
• After a tense argument in the car, Hope decides to put some music on to lighten the mood. Turns out Scott was listening to his own book, which Cassie finds hopelessly embarrassing. The part we hear has Scott talking about meeting Rocket, and being glad that he's met a raccoon who can talk. All the while Hope can be seen trying not to burst out laughing.
• The Langs and the Pyms gather for a family dinner, where Hank uses Pym Particles to grow the small pizza he bought into a larger one that can feed everyone. He then boasts about how this saved him eight dollars, even though he can easily afford the difference given he's a rich scientist. Janet chides him "the Nobel Prize is in the mail, dear."
• The family dinner turns into a family meeting, but doesn't take long at all for it to devolve into slinging shade Scott's way. His mention that he saved the world, which he likely has told everyone a thousand times, prompting everyone to sarcastically quip that he "never mentioned that before," and "should write a book about it."
  Scott: Ha, ha.
• When Cassie mentions Scott going to Germany to fight Captain America, he makes sure to correct it was with Cap, not against him. He then remarks he's not crazy enough to fight Cap.
• Among the new characters the Quantum Realm gives us are:
  • Veb, a goo creature whose ooze allows people to understand the language of the denizens of the Quantum Realm for reasons that are not explained. He's also obsessed with asking people how many holes they have.
  Quaz: His name is Scott Lang, and he has seven holes.
  Scott: [counting] Yeah, yeah, that's right.
  • Quaz, a telepath who's very much not happy about being a telepath because he can hear everyone's dirty thoughts.
    Quaz: Stop thinking that.
    Scott: Sorry.
    Quaz: Stop!
    Scott: I'm sorry!
    Quaz: Are you even trying to stop?
• It can be very funny when Quaz asks Scott and Cassie about; Who is "San Francisco"? And what is "Earth"? Since technically, as inhabitants of the Quantum Realm, they don't know anything other than their world.
• In response to Veb's question about how many holes humans have, Quaz responds, "Seven." Scott pauses, clearly doing the math in his head, before agreeing.
• It can be quite funny to see how Scott and Cassie have to explain to the inhabitants of the Quantum Realm that they are both from a parallel universe to theirs, since it can be quite difficult to explain to the inhabitants of the Quantum Realm that they come from a different universe. They keep talking over each other and just confusing everyone else.
  Quaz: They don't know anything. [beat] At all.
• Hank waxes lyrical about how amazing the Quantum Realm is and how he could never have imagined what it was truly like, only to interrupt himself:
  Hank: Holy shit, that guy looks like broccoli.
  • Said inhabitant(who really does look exactly like he's made of broccoli), or another member of the same race, tries hitting on Hope while she's alone at the bar. Hope can only laugh at the ridiculousness of the situation.
• Scott discovers the buildings in the quantum realm are sentient and can move:
  Scott: Is that building alive?!
  Veb: [in the same shocked tone] Yours are dead?!
• We learn that during her time in the Quantum Realm, Janet had a relationship with Krylar because, as she puts it, she was down there for a long time and had "needs". Hank tells her he gets it, and that he also had another relationship while she was gone, and she likewise has no problem with it. After all, Janet had no idea if she was going home, and Hank had no idea if his wife was even alive! Hope is dumbfounded that they're so casual about this, and is naturally none too pleased to listen to her parents openly discuss their sex lives in front of her.
• It's been some time since Krylar met other human beings besides Janet, he finds it difficult to even say the word 'Human'. Hank asks Krylar (who appears like an average person, just with a flair for clothing) if he isn't human too. Krylar tells Hank that he seems to be, but he isn't.
• Kang confuses Scott for being Thor ("the Avenger with the flying hammer"), but Scott believes the confusion is due to him and Thor having "similar body types."
• The characters' reactions to M.O.D.O.K. are all pretty much the same across the board: disbelief that Darren Cross is alive, along with disgust with dash of pity for Darren.
  • Hank's reunion with Darren is especially chuckle-worthy black comedy just for Darren's casual "Hi, Hank" in the deep, distorted M.O.D.O.K. voice (and Hank's incredulous reaction).
  • Darren never gets to finish his big origin explanation, because every time he tries, he gets interrupted. No one is mocking him or talking down to him—they're just so honestly flabbergasted by everything about him.
• Scott points out that Mechanical Organism Designed Only for Killing's acronym should be M.O.D.O.F.K.
• Cassie demonstrates mastery of both the Indy Ploy and brutal honesty once she manages to break Jentorra out of jail:
  Jentorra: Do you have a plan?
  Cassie: Getting you out was my plan.
• Scott is sent to retrieve Kang's engine and ends up getting split into possibilities - a Scott for every decision he could possibly make is manifested as an independent person. All of them but one are wearing the Ant-Man suit: That one is wearing a Baskin-Robbins uniform.
  Prime Scott: Why are you dressed like that?
  BR Scott: Wh-these are normal clothes! Why are you all dressed like that?
  • One of the background Scotts can be heard asking him "Do you have ice cream?".
  • Scott tries to call Darren for some help but gets no response despite multiple queries. Finally he rolls his eyes and addresses Darren as "M.O.D.O.K." and gets an immediate reply.
  • As Scott continues replicating and his duplicates express increasing confusion as Darren tries to explain what's happening, one solitary Scott can be heard saying "Oh, I get it," while every other Scott continues to freak out.
• Hank discovers that some of his ants were also dragged into the Quantum Realm, but they went through a considerably greater length of time than the others did, becoming astonishingly intelligent and building a civilization of their own. Hank sums it up thus:
  Hank: I know "socialism" is a loaded word, but we could learn a thing or two from them.
  • It's even funnier when one realizes that Hank and Janet used to fight against the Soviet Union to save America from the horrors of Communism during their Cold War S.H.I.E.L.D days. One could only imagine how their former co-workers (especially Howard) would react to Hank saying such a thing here...
  • And as Hank starts getting more and more interested in talking about how the ants have evolved, Hope has to interrupt him, because fascinating as it is, it's really not relevant to the goal of stopping the bloodthirsty Multiversal Conqueror.
• During the assault on Kang's citadel, Jentorra captures one of Kang's Mooks and demands he give up the code that will open the bridge so that the rest of La Résistance can get across. The mook states he'll die first... and then Quaz casually walks over, reads his mind, and gets the code. The mook can only give a resigned "damn" before being killed.
  • And then, as the rebels get across, Veb is suddenly ambushed and shot repeatedly by more mooks. Being a blob, he's not injured, and is more astonished by the fact that he now has holes. He then roars, doubles in size, and starts sucking in mooks like a jet engine.
  Quaz: I didn't know he could do that.
• Scott causes a distraction by going giant-size, possibly larger than he ever has before. Big enough that Cassie and M.O.D.O.K. can see him approaching the city. M.O.D.O.K.'s reaction? "Holy shit, that's big."
• M.O.D.O.K. stubbornly refuses to admit defeat after Cassie thrashes him. She finally cries out in exasperation:
  Cassie: Darren, just stop! Stop trying to be...whatever this is!
  Darren: I don't know what to be. Tell me what to be!
  Cassie: I don't know, just don't be a dick!
  Darren: It's too late. Look at me. I'm such a dick!
  Cassie: It's never too late to stop being a dick.
• While Scott and Cassie embracing in their giant forms is an undoubtedly touching moment, Scott can't help but remark that it feels like he's hugging Godzilla. The two take a moment to note that they're both craving limes at the moment.
  • What makes the moment more funny and cute is that Cassie hops around like a happy little kid before embracing her father.
• After Kang screams that the Ant-family talks to ants, and as such are beneath him, cue Hank’s giant ant army coming in and turning the tides of the battle. When Hank joins Scott, Hope and Cassie, Kang gives Hank a glare and a grimace that screams that he knows he accidentally tempted fate and that he spoke too soon. Even funnier because the ants really turn the tides of not only the war, but also in the direct fight with Kang, doing what Scott, Hope and Cassie couldn’t do, nearly defeat him.
• M.O.D.O.K.'s Heel–Face Turn naturally comes at the cost of his life. Before going, he proclaims that Scott—who he barely knew— was always like a brother to him. Judging for their faces, nobody knows how to answer to that. He also proclaims that at least he gets to die an Avenger. Scott, not wanting to take this from him, goes along with it.
  • He also cheerfully greets Hope, who has not interacted with him at all until this point, noting that she's changed her hair.
    Hope: What—how—Darren?
    Scott: Yeah, it's a whole thing. I'll explain later.
  • While calling Scott his brother, he pats his face in what he clearly intends to be an affectionate gesture, but Scott looks utterly uncomfortable with the tiny hand flapping away at him.
  • While Darren asks if he died an Avenger, Scott noticeably shares a confused glance with Cassie and Hope before Hope just gestures at him to humor him.
• The owner of the coffee shop Scott frequents finally realizes that Scott isn't Spider-Man. His daughter is standing there, annoyed, giving the impression that she's been trying to explain this to him for a while. Then he charges Scott $12 for coffee. Turns out, there are still limits to Ant-Man's celebrity.
• Dale, the Baskin Robbins manager, gives Scott a birthday cake for Cassie and tells Scott that he hasn't decorated a cake since 1997. The frosting on the cake is smooshed and reads "Happy 6ith bithday Cassie". And judging by Scott's reaction in the last scene, the cake tastes terrible too.
• The ending has Scott happy that all is well—until he starts considering what Kang said about what was coming and starts spiraling into a panic attack about whether he's doomed every living person...until he decides to not worry about it and goes about his merry way.
• While the implications are, of course, dire, the first stinger is still funny on its own: It's Kang scheming with Kang alongside another Kang while other Kangs are arriving to a stadium full of Kangs cheering, and every single one of them has a different look. It looks like a giant costume party where every attendee is Jonathan Majors.
  • It should be noted that by "cheering", its not just victorious war cries, angry shouting and chanting like a virtual god emperor such as Kang would be expected to do. These Kangs act like rowdy Super Bowl attendees, hugging each other in glee, literally hooping and hollering, and smiling with some of the biggest, goofiest grins imaginable.
  • If you look closely in the background during the final few moments of the scene, you can actually see two Kangs stop their cheering and look behind them in confusion, clearly unsettled about how their variants are acting like multiversal frat bros to contrast their more subdued reactions.

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