Ant-man and the Wasp

Plot: Dr Frank Pym (Michael Douglas), invented a shrinking technology that makes people shrink to ant-sized, or grow to Paul Bunyan size. Thirty years ago, Pym's wife was trapped in the super-miniature "quantum realm", and now Ant-man/Scott (Paul Rudd) and the Pyms' now-grown daughter Hope/Wasp (Evangeline Lilly) try to save her. They are opposed by the FBI, a local gangster, and Ghost/Ava (Hanna John-Kamen), who was injured in a shrinking technology accident as a girl.  [imdb]    [photos]

Review: I liked Ant-man and the Wasp. It was a welcome respite from hard-core comic-book action and massive head-count battles in Avengers. Ant-Man 2 is over half sitcom humor based on the superhero lifestyle plus visual tiny-people jokes. This is just a different genre movie than Superman.

There is no science in this movie that hold up, but there were a few things I liked. The did just make stuff up, and the joked about putting the word quantum in front of what ever they wanted. However. They had real quantum mechanical calculations on the board in the science lecture, although who writes on chalk boards anymore? The quantum realm had virtual particles just popping up from the spatial ooze. I liked that. It would have been cool if they could have done something visual with the plank length.

Paul Rudd is not my favorite actor, but he does a goodjob with the half-serious role he has. 

Cast: Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Hanna John-Kamen, Michael Douglas

Directed by: Payton Reed, who also directed the first Ant-man

Written by: Five people including Paul Rudd

The Music: Jazzy music by Christophe Beck including one track based on Flight of the Bumblebee by Nikolai Rimsky-Korasakov that I liked.

The Visuals: Good visuals of shrinking and growning. I liked driving underneath the other cars on the road. I liked the visuals of Ghost/Hanna blinking back and forth between dimensions. 

Rating: 3.0 stars: I liked it. I might watch it again. 

More: With the exception of Lego Batman, this is the lightest comic book movie. It has a simple plot, but it enjoys being goofy.

Even More: Evangeline Lilly is known for Lost.


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