Marval Movie

The ability to get small is a power that leads to the user and the audience thinking about the area around them rather than what lies ahead. You think and consider the details that you miss in your room rather than thinking outside the room.

The pendekar in Ant-Man is a convict that is getting out of jail. His name is Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) he cannot find a job without falling into his old burglary habits, he needs money to provide for his daughter but who would hire a man with such skill's and his background? The only one it seems, a professor by the name of Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), he is the inventor of a suit that can shrink a man to the size of an insect, also an earpiece which allows its wearer to communicate and control Ants. An Ant-man you might say.

The retracting factor that came before, during and even after I saw the movie was that Edgar Wright was attached to direct, he had apparently spent seven years developing to script with his writing partner Joe Cornish. MARVEL did a re-write and they didn't like what they did so the two left. I can't help think that we could be getting a new Edgar Wright movie. But still, even though he left his finger-prints area all over the movie. Dialog, characters, and situations are fast and sharp, there's also plenty of creativity and dry humor to back-up the source material. Though this is not an Edgar Wright film, it definitely benefited from his involvement.

Our bad guy this time is the former apprentice of Pym. Darren Cross played by Corey Stoll, he plays him as Spielberg would describe "a champagne villain" (there's literally a scene where he says something menacing and then sips-back some champagne). He is of course after the same technology that powers the Ant-Man suit but wants it for ill-will.

What distinguishes Ant-Man form the other MARVEL movies is its smaller scale (pun intended). All the other superhero movies are constantly put into a crisis that has the world at stake, with this there are stakes to be sure but it's more of a persoalan that will eventually escalate. The other is that we have what is known as a legacy character, a character that is taking up the persona that has previously been worn by another. It adds depth to the world, makes it seems lived-in.

All shortcomings (again, pun intended) are forgiven when the third act comes along and it becomes a true thrill ride. All the pieces fall into place and we are given a climactic battle that is both gripping and very funny.

MARVEL seems to be constantly doing good with their movies. Before they would continue to raise and raise the scale and scope, Avengers: Age of Ultron being their pinnacle so far. But with this movie, they made it more human and dialed back all the explosions and world ending, something more in-tune with Honey I Shrunk the Kids. They had more fun and so did we the audience.

Rating: 3 1/2 stars out of 4