The Marvelous Marvel Rewatch (Now Playing: Avengers: Infinity War)

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Ant Man

I just watched Ant Man again.  As always there are spoilers below, so don't read on if you haven't seen the movie.


Pluses:

This movie is extremely fun and funny.  I thoroughly enjoyed myself from beginning to end.  "Baskin Robbins always finds out."  There are a lot of funny lines and scenes in the movie.

The actors do a great job.  Paul Rudd is the perfect Ant Man.  I also love Michael Douglas as the extremely eccentric mentor.  Michael Peña is hilarious. 

I just caught the Hydra angle for the first time on this watch.  Apparently,  Hank Pym was smart enough to know there was something fishy at Shield and so he always kept his formula a secret even to them.  In Winter Soldier we find out that Hydra had infiltrated Shield the whole time, which means that Hank Pym was extremely wise here.  He irrationally doesn't trust Howard Stark either, because he lumped Stark in with Shield as a whole.

I love the Garret Morris cameo, but I bet most people won't catch the reference.  In an old 70's SNL sketch he plays Ant Man and the other super heroes make fun of him.  (Go to about 4:30 in the video below to see him.)
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/superhero-party/n8670?snl=1

Minuses:

-Any way that you cut it, Ant Man has the least interesting powers of any MCU hero.  Lots of people fantasize about having powers like flight, super strength, lasers, super agility, etc....  Somewhere near the bottom of that list is the ability to shrink down and control an army of ants.  

-There is not a lot at stake in this movie.  For one the villain is kind of meh.  Also, even in non-Avengers movies like Winter Soldier or GotG, millions of people's lives are at stake.  I just don't feel that tension in this movie, and it seems like they choose to go for comedy instead of tension even in the film's climax.  The battle on the toy train set is hilarious, but you just don't feel like a lot is at stake here.

 

In conclusion,  Ant Man is an extremely enjoyable film to watch from beginning to end, but it may be hard to take it seriously like you would a normal super hero movie.

6/10

Last edited by The_Liquid_Laser - on 24 March 2018