What are the worst MCU movies of all time and is Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania one of them?
Even though it was backed by an aggressive marketing campaign and the allure of watching the big-screen introduction of Kang, there was no escaping a cold, hard reality: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania stinks! That’s according to both the critics, who collectively gave it a rotten score on Rotten Tomatoes, and fans, who slapped the 31st MCU movie with a lowly B grade via Cinemascore (Marvel movies usually get grades in the “A” range, so a B for them is very bad).
But just how awful is the third Ant-Man movie? There aren’t a lot of genuinely bad Marvel movies, but after 15 years, it’s impossible for any studio to not lay a stinker now and then. Using Rotten Tomatoes as my guide, I rank the worst MCU movies to determine where Quantumania ultimately ended up and answer the question a lot of moviegoers have been asking since the movie premiered: is it the worst MCU movie ever?
Note: Sony’s Spider-Man spinoffs don’t count as they were made without the creative input of Marvel President Kevin Feige. Otherwise, this list would be nothing but Sony movies like Venom and Venom: Let There Be Carnage.4. The Incredible Hulk (68%)
It says a lot about the high quality of Marvel’s output that the fifth-worst MCU movie isn’t bad at all. In fact, it’s perfectly OK, and there’s nothing wrong with that. This second attempt at a Hulk movie after Ang Lee’s criminally underrated 2003 film Hulk sees a new Bruce Banner (Edward Norton, still better than Marc Ruffalo and Eric Bana) trying to find a cure for his Hulk rages. Along the way, he encounters a new menace, The Abomination (Tim Roth, so good at playing bad), whose similar gamma-powered abilities may hold the key to a cure.
While it doesn’t break new ground, The Incredible Hulk does make for an entertaining ride thanks to Norton’s charismatic performance and his, er, incredible chemistry with Liv Tyler, who plays Betty Banner. Yes, the CGI is somewhat wonky, and the climactic battle is just like any other final duel in a comic book movie, but The Incredible Hulk is a better movie than its initial critical reception suggests.3. Thor: The Dark World (66%)
Thor: The Dark World doesn’t have a bad reputation so much as it has almost no reputation.
