Review: Ant-Man & The Wasp

“After just one movie that had a bit of grit and at least some depth to it, Marvel quickly run back into the shitty humour bin and pull out one of their biggest turds yet.”

Ant-Man is never going to be taken seriously. But really, we have Guardians of the Galaxy, and now it seems, Thor… to play the silly joke cards in the MCU. But Ant-Man doesn’t want to be outdone.

First up, this film’s plot moves about 2cms from where it started to where it finished. And don’t get me started on what the post credit scene did to that too!

The Quantum Realm. There was probably an interesting, or at least more interesting film in here somewhere. But then again, everything about this movie is really really small.

What the film relies on, is an endless series of really poorly written and delivered jokes, that even by Marvel standards are painfully delivered.

Don't even get me started...

Paul Rudd will always be good to watch, but Ant-Man wasn’t quite as smart in this movie, and he was almost a secondary character.

The Wasp is more the focus, but she isn’t very interesting, especially as the film doesn't really develop her character at all. Its simply, we have to get mum, we have to get this >insert techno device<, romantic subplot with Ant-Man... now spin them all together with jokes.

Here I am as a legendary actor in this universe full of amazing characters, and I'm stuck with Ant-Man.

Then there’s Michael Douglas who feels like his character was supposed to have died and past on everything to Rudd, but instead he’s still kicking along, just hanging out.

A Marvel movie with zero consequences and really bad jokes. In other news, water... wet

We get some scenes with Laurence Fishburne, who probably enjoyed being in a superhero movie that wasn’t ripped to shreds by the “critics”. In Batman v Superman we had great verbal battles between him and Clark over journalism and the role of the media, and he had great battles with Lois in Man of Steel over her story of an alien amongst us and how that information would affect the world. In Man of Steel he also had the great heroic scene trying to free Jenny as the World Engine got closer and closer to squashing them. But in this film, he is reduced to a very one dimensional character with zero logic to his actions, which swap direction every couple of seconds.

We also get a very small amount of scenes with Michelle Pfeiffer, which could have been much more fleshed out, but weren’t.

The film has two real villains, neither of which are worth mentioning. What it does have in abundance, is comic relief characters. If there is an Oscar for most over used comic relief characters, this movie will win without doubt.

Another graduate of the Marvel school for villains who just annoy everyone.

Hey, I'm a comic relief character in a film with zero moments of seriousness, begging the question, what am I relieving?

If you have zero interest in the comic book genre being taken seriously, in other words, if you thought Thor Ragnarok was one of the great movies of 2017, then this movie is probably for you. This is surface level story telling at its cheesiest. Enjoy.

The five bearded questions:

1. Was it worth a cinema trip? No.

2. Would I See It Again at the Cinema? No.

3. Would I buy it on Blu-ray: (only films I really love get bought these days) No. 4. Do I Recommend people see it? No.

5. Any cheese/ Disney style bullshit?: (such as jokes wedged in at serious moments, because fun!). Yes, every two to three minutes.