Ant-Man Review
Ant-Man is the last movie of Phase 2 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and it's going out with a bang. Ant-Man delivers the same thrills that we got from The Avengers, with a little more humor. Paul Rudd immediately convinces the audience that he is the perfect casting choice, and is probably the most relatable superhero I've seen.
Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) comes right out of prison at the start of the movie, and is motivated to start becoming part of his daughters life. His hilarious criminal roommates try to persuade him to go back to crime, but he doesn't budge. Finally, he does, and it turns out that Hank Pym, the creator of the Pym particle and the Ant-Man suit has set the task up for him, to give him a chance to prove himself. He then dons the suit, after taking it for a test and then trains to take down the main bad guy, Darren Cross. Darren Cross is trying to figure out how to replicate the Pym particle, and ends up going crazy in the midst of doing so. Once he finally figures out how to replicate it, he becomes the Yellowjacket. His motivations for doing this are pretty unclear, and he makes for a pretty transparent villain that's not fleshed out enough. When Ant-Man shrinks down to ant size, it makes the entire world around him colossal, and the CGI makes it look like this entirely different world.
The dialogue in Ant-Man is by far the funniest in any Marvel movie to date, and the script fits Paul Rudd perfectly. The action is very clever and unique, with Ant-Man shrinking and then growing back to full size in swift movements to take his enemies down, which was really entertaining to watch. There is also a couple of nods and references to other Marvel movies, which is always fun.
Ant-Man is action packed, and pretty loosely scripted, but it's one of the more fun superhero movies. It's nice and refreshing to have a solo superhero movie fresh off of the Avengers, that is nearly as thrilling.
8.4/10
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