Review of Ant-Man (2015) by A T — 10 Mar 2016

If you told me I would go into Ant-Man and expect to like it last year I would have laughed. Marvel has really gotten to a point lately where they believe they are "unstoppable" by releasing one film that really was only sold on concept of "what if we combine characters from previous movies together?" Clearly the magic didn't strike twice with Ultron but enough about my dislike of the MCU practice.

Ant-Man was troubled getting rid of Edgar Wright and that was a red flag to me. The guy who spent almost 12 years walking away? This must be a disaster. Maybe I walked in with too low of expectations, maybe I just can't resist the charm of Paul Rudd (I mean I knew he was cool since Knocked Up) but I liked what I got in Ant-Man.

It's sure an origin story, a heist movie ripping off of many other films (seems to be a trend with Marvel, but let's just throw superheros! That's the original part!) but I think what makes it work is the parallels between Scott and Hank.

That worked perfectly. In a way they got around the lazy "destroy the city" bullshit of the 5000 previous movies by placing it in a child's bedroom. In a way I wish Joe Johnston came back to direct Honey I Shrunk the Ant-Man.

Or Judd Apatow/David Wain's This is Ant-Man starring Jason Segel and Rashida Jones.