Review of Ant-Man (2015) by Ronipogi77 — 21 Nov 2015

An entertaining addition to the Marvel cinematic universe. Like other movies where shrinking is involved, this one makes use of insects--either the shunken hero riding them or commanding them. The movie has many moments and at times quite funny.

But the science in this sci-fi flick is very flimsy. Maybe not enough to bother the casual viewer, but for a nerd like me it did. They could have left out the part (or done it better) where the villain explains how the shinking process works (it shrinks the distances between atoms, but mass remains the same).

This explanation is completely ignored afterward since Antman's mass clearly changed--for example he can ride a winged ant and that ant can carry him easily in flight. That should be impossible if his shunken mass was the same as his normal mass.

And then we have the whole "going subatomic" thing. If what the suit does is SHRINK the DISTANCE BETWEEN ATOMS how can it make the wearer shrink SMALLER THAN AN ATOM? I felt a better thought out explanation of the shrinking process (and what precisely happens to one's mass) should have been included.

But other than that flaw, it was an entertaining film and quite different in many ways from Marvel's other superhero films.