Not too bad


I don't know what I was really expecting tbh. I saw the first Ant Man on TV and it was average. This one had Evangeline Lilly doing lots of cool stuff and she also looks very good tbh. So easy on the eyes. And Michelle Pfeiffer looked incredible - could be latest round of plastic surgery of whatever but it looks like she did it in time and properly. Personally, I wouldn't advocate this but whatever, it's her choice.

The movie overall is not too bad nor too good either. Very few jokes, most of which fall flat. And the whole thing between the evil woman and these guys could've been just solved by just talking it over, over a cup of tea tbh. Actually, that's the fate of most movies. I mean, just freaking talk it over - they want to help, you don't need to battle people who want to help.

The FBI guy was moderately funny and the cute little girl actually was tolerable as far as over acting and over achieving and over mature kids go.

The action was average and Michael Pena was kinda wasted. The plot was just too simplistic and comic-y. It sounds ironic given it is a comic book movie but really a movie should hide itself from looking comic-y.

I thought it would be very funny like the best Marvel movie (perhaps superhero movie) to date - Thor:Ragnarok. But it wasn't like that.

Lots of silly plot holes such as they shrink the building with the phasing lady and she seems trapped inside but a couple of scenes later, she inexplicably is chasing them again full sized. How???

Also, how does she catch up so fast and know where they are?

The ants were protecting the building and quantum tunnel before but at the end when phase lady shows up, they weren't. Why not?

Wasp just rides in a car with Michael Pena while she could've just gone to get the building from the crazy guy who had the truth serum henchmen. Ok, one scene in there was kinda drawn out and eventually made me chuckle. But it tried way too hard.

The final end credits scene was actually very well done and well integrated with the whole Marvel universe and tied in super nicely with Avengers: Infinity War. That scene was truly amazing.

Michael Douglas acted well as did others. The 3D was pretty good - nothing pops out (I don't know why they don't do that convergence anymore. That's what 3D means to me) but the depth perspective is pretty well done.

Overall, not too bad. I'd rate this movie a 6.5/10 normally but I'll change to 7/10 for Evangeline Lilly and her acting/fight scenes.



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Yeah, I liked it for the most part too. It was funny and very impressive action sequences too. The villains were kinda wasted and the plot wasn't much but I had fun with it.

Have a short review of this movie if anyone is interested- https://youtu.be/hjGwk7t7bU8

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I really liked it. It’s not supposed to be dark or serious and I like how some of these movies don’t have end of the world stakes.

I give it a 7.5 out of 10 and am off to iTunes to see if I can preorder it

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I haven't seen it yet and will soon. What I "Hope" happens is that marvel expands the DVD feature offerings for this one. Not just gag reel or deleted scenes but bonus in-film footage as well as special features.

Ant-Man and the Wasp were founding members in print canon and Hank really is the father of Ultron. Making all things Tony has been a bit much for so many other characters and I have no doubt in my mind that if Edgar Wright had of finished what he started in 2006 Ant-Man would have been even more of a non-descript and non special member of the MCU.

For nostalgia purposes alone Hank/Ant-Man and Janet/Wasp need a proper telling if only on a featurette on a Blu-Ray.

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