If there’s one silver lining to emerge from the debacle of the Secret Invasion finale, then it’s got to be the fact the series as a whole isn’t quite the worst-reviewed entry in Marvel Cinematic Universe history.
It’s damning with faint praise, sure, especially considering the final episode is currently the second lowest-rated comic book adaptation in the entire history of the medium on Rotten Tomatoes, and being dubbed marginally superior to Son of the Mask is not a place any project regardless of genre wants to find itself.
And yet, by conspiring to deliver a conclusion that was Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania has been cut some slack for the very first time; in regards to its own finale, at least.
With a 46 percent approval rating on the aggregation site, Peyton Reed’s mundane misfire is the at the bottom of the MCU’s pile, and there were understandably a lot of people left confused that Kang the Conqueror – the ominous antagonist designated as the big bad of the entire Multiverse Saga – was so handily defeated by an army of ants when he’s quite literally the end-of-level boss designed to tie off years of storytelling in the fifth and sixth Avengers epics.
In fact, a hardy band of the response to the end of Secret Invasion has seen a sliver of leeway extended to the last MCU outing that left a bad taste in so many mouths?
Published: Jul 30, 2023 01:54 am