"Quantumania"

Paul Rudd is funny and sweet, Michelle Pfeiffer is luminous, Michael Douglas does curmudgeon well, Katy O'Brian makes a lot out of little, Evangeline Lilly fades into the background and Kathryn Newton steals the show.  And I miss Michael Pena.  There are little wink-winks to other works, such as Star Wars, Star Trek, and a host of classics.  All-in-all, not the best Marvel entry but by no means the worst.  It's fast paced, heavy on action and effects, and has some twists which you only kind-of see coming.  I liked it.  But there isn't anything new here.  And, like all Marvel films these days, it mostly exists to set up the next two sequels.  And the problem with that is Jonathan Majors.  He's the big heavy in this film, and, presumably in the next two.  But he goes on trial for sexual assault in August.  And women are coming out of the woodwork to accuse him of being violent with them.  So now what?  I guess they recast.  It is, after all, a make-believe multiverse.