Filmmaker Peyton Reed badly wants to make a “Star Wars” film. We know this because he’s already spent a lot of time directing Lucasfilm’s “Star Wars” spin-off series “The Mandalorian,” and because his new ‘Ant-Man & The Wasp’ film, ‘Quantumania,’ is essentially a big-budget “Star Wars” movie. That’s great for Reed because that’s clearly where his ambition and aspirations lie, but it’s bad for Marvel, Ant-Man, and the “Ant-Man” franchise because the strengths of that series— its humor, its modesty, its small-scale humanity—is largely lost in a big space epic which eschews its foundations for something bigger, but alienating and not very entertaining either.

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