Heard lots of highs and lows about this film before seeing it. I thought it was quite good and different from the usual Marvel movie, while remaining one.
Best way to describe this would be a superhero sci-fi heist film. It's pretty straight forward and simplistic in it's approach, which I liked. It could have striven for something bigger, but just about every Marvel movie from this point on will go for an ensemble cast blockbuster. So it's nice to have something quieter and smaller in scale, no pun intended.
This is a highly thematic movie about father's and daughters, revolving around Hank Pym and Scott Lang.
Scott Lang is a sophisticated burglar and thief serving time for basically making sure an evil corporation was getting their just deserts. He didn't gain anything from it, but did lose his daughter to his ex wife.
Hank Pym is a forced retired billionaire who has his eyes set on Scott. Hank is also believed to be the urban legend superhero, The Ant Man. So small he probably never existed.
Together they must pull off a heist to steal the Yellow Jacket suit before it ends up in the wrong hands.
Like I said before, it's incredibly straight forward and simple compared to every other Marvel movie nowadays, which I found refreshing. It's one of those stand alone good superhero films before the superhero genre blew up to what it's become today.
I liked the tone of this. It looks silly and campy as hell, but I think GOTG and AOU were a lot more over the top and comedic in tone. You have TI and Michael Pena for that here, but Rudd is pretty held back for Rudd standards.
Complaints? Very minor. Evangaline Lilly isn't likable much and has zero chemistry with Rudd. I blame the director more than her.
I think other than Loki, Marvel has a long string of poor villains. Ultron could have been great, but he was cracking jokes non-stop. Corey Stoll was better than the average villain, but a little too one dimensional. This guy is evil from the get go and only got worse. But I disliked him for the right reasons at least. He and Iron Monger would have gotten along.
Overall I just really enjoyed Ant-Man in action. He's sorta the reverse Hulk. Smaller he gets, the more powerful he gets. The bullet analogy is spot on. His fight scenes are all him punching people when he shrinks and they remain normal size and helpless against him.
Also Ant-Man and the ants teaming up are much better than Pratt and the raptors teaming up in Jurassic World.
Couple of really cool cameos.
Make sure to stay for the mid credits and after credits scenes.
Looking forward to Ant-Man teaming with the Avengers one day.
