First reactions to 'Ant Man and The Wasp:Quantumania' pouring in on social media

The Marvel Cinematic Universe launches its next series of entries, “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania”, releasing on February 17th. The film’s going to premiere in Los Angeles, on Monday evening.

Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly reprise their self-played superheroes who has been advertised as the most ambitious “Ant-Man” till date, sending Rudd’s Scott Lang and his family of shrinking scientists, including his now-grown daughter Cassie (Kathryn Newton), to the dangerous Quantum Realm.

The new landscape presents challenges for the heroes, including the emergence of Kang the Conqueror (Jonathan Majors), who is all set to play a major role in Marvel entries to come, including 2025’s “Avengers: The Kang Dynasty.”

Michelle Pfeiffer and Michael Douglas also return for “Quantumania,” joined by a supporting cast that includes David Dastmalchian, William Jackson Harper, Katy O’Brian and Bill Murray.

Peyton Reed is back in the director’s chair after helming “Ant-Man” and “Ant-Man and the Wasp.” The director previously told Entertainment Weekly that he was eager to give his “Ant-Man” franchise the gravitas of an “Avengers”-size epic and he was intent on doing so with “Quantumania.”

“People felt like, Oh, these are fun little palate cleansers after a gigantic Avengers movie,” Reed. “For this third one, I said, ‘I don’t want to be the palate cleanser anymore. I want to be the big Avengers movie.'”