With Ant-Man and the Wasp, the MCU hits 20 films, with no real signs of slowing down.
I have at least one friend who thinks this a terrible, with superhero films being a dark blight on the landscape. And we’ve also read interviews with Hollywood bigwigs about “superhero fatigue”, as if the popularity of the genre were crushing all creativity out of movies. This is an overreaction, of course–it seems asilly to not recognize that the whole idea of “summer blockbusters” and “tentpole franchises” have been threatening the same thing for decades. But somehow, cinema survives.
For me, I like superheroes, of course, and as long as a company like Marvel can continue to produce palatable material, then I say it’s fine, go for your life. And Ant-Man and the Wasp is at least palatable, if not a fully enjoyable summer snack.