\u00a0 \u00a0It was a great film, and this sequel looked to expand on the multi-generational superhero actions of the Pym-Van Dyne family and the fallout from the events of \u201cCaptain America: Civil War.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0All of the cast from \u201cAnt Man\u201d return, and the events of the movie are set two years after \u201cCivil War.\u201d Following Scott Lang\u2019s (Paul Rudd) actions in Germany he was placed under house arrest and is reaching his last three days of it. <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0Meanwhile, Dr. Hank Pym and his daughter Hope Van Dyne (Michael Douglas and Evangeline Lilly) are on the run from the government and making a new breakthrough in finding Pym\u2019s wife Janet (Michelle Pfeiffer). They make a new machine to reach a connection with the quantum realm, but lack a final part. <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0They realize Lang is the key to finding her, and abduct him and take him on a wild adventure, where they have to overcome a new dangerous foe who can phase through walls named Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen).<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0One thing I love is that this movie continues the trend of great villains that have aren\u2019t completely evil or clones of the hero. Ghost has a real reason and purpose for causing mayhem, and her superpower is pretty cool. I can feel her pain and relate to the character, which is something I couldn’t say for the lion’s share of Phase 1 and 2 villains.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0The action sequences are also a lot of fun and visually stunning. Watching Ant Man and The Wasp shrink down only to pop back up and hit someone will never get old, and the juxtaposition of the heroes fighting around and avoiding hazards at miniature size is fun to watch. <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0This film is also jam-packed with humor and almost all of the jokes land. Pe\u00f1a is one of the funniest guys in here, and his reactions and thoughts kinda reflect how I as an audience member felt at certain moments. Lang\u2019s quips always land for me, and Hank Pym\u2019s annoyed old person act is funny. <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0That last point especially makes the scene where the team sneaks into Cassie\u2019s classroom to steal the original Ant Man suit one of the highlights of the film.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0The scenes that take place in the quantum dimension are great as well, and are visually pleasing to look at, much like scenes from \u201cDoctor Strange.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0The best part about this movie I feel is the light tone and happy ending that is a complete contrast from the last Marvel outing we\u2019ve seen \u201cInfinity War.\u201d The moment Hank and Janet reunite is genuinely touching, as it had been building through both movies, and was tear-jerking.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0In a typical Marvel (and superhero films in general) trope, the protagonist’s love interest, family member, mentor or parent never lasts more than one movie if they\u2019re lucky. Think Uncle Ben in Spider-Man, the guy in the cave who helped Tony Stark build his Iron Man armor, T\u2019Challa\u2019s father, The Ancient One, Ego the living planet, Thor\u2019s parents and countless others. So I was shocked when literally everyone lived in the end. <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0Which brings me to the post-credits scene. Many people, alongside myself predicted it would end with some form of the team turning to dust due to the finger snap of Thanos. It did, and Hank, Janet and Hope all vanished and left Lang stranded in the quantum dimension. <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0While I expected it, it did put a damper on a really satisfying story arc and ending. A Hollywood Reporter article I read made several good points, saying that the scenario should have been reversed, and Lang should\u2019ve been snapped and the Pym-Van Dyne clan would have to help the remaining heroes save the world.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0With that we would\u2019ve got to see the Pyms return the favor to Lang and save his life and his family, and we would get to see an interaction between enemies Hank Pym and Tony Stark. Two egotistical, somewhat selfish scientists would have to work together to save the world. It\u2019d be awesome.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0It would also tip the scales equally for The Wasp, as she would get to fight alongside the Avengers as payback for Lang putting her on the sidelines during \u201cCivil War.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0Alas, that was not the ending we got, and we\u2019ll have to wait and see how Scott Lang gets out of this predicament in \u201cAvengers 4.\u201d Still, the scene was a good gut punch to set up the next offering from Marvel.<\/span><\/p>\n Also, why can no one in these movies communicate with each other? Hank Pym is such an egotistical maniac that he can’t see the obvious predicament Ghost is in and offer some genuine help. He just blows her tragic story off because he didn’t like her father whose death was most likely his fault. Why does Ghost have to go straight to violence to coax the Pyms into helping her? Couldn’t she have found Hank and Hope and tell them about the problem and ask for help? It was probably a pride thing, but when you’re in constant pain and your body is deteriorating, that’s the time to swallow it.<\/p>\n Characters like Pym and Tony Stark are so hard headed that they can’t hear anyone out and show a little empathy to people who were collateral damage to their inventions and experiments. But, if they didn’t act like that, these movies wouldn’t have plots.<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0Overall, \u201cAnt Man and The Wasp\u201d is a great Marvel movie that has constantly moving parts and great action, and a great continuation of the story started three years ago in the first film. The central message is family, and it all comes together in the end (before the credits) in a heartwarming package. <\/span><\/p>\n Henry Wolski<\/strong> Warning: full spoilers for \u201cAnt Man and The Wasp\u201d and \u201cAvengers: Infinity War\u201d follow below. Do not read this article if you haven\u2019t seen these films and don\u2019t wish to be spoiled. Otherwise, enjoy! \u00a0 \u00a0Last week we saw the release of \u201cAnt Man and The Wasp,\u201d the sequel to the successful \u201cAnt Man\u201d film […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10416,"featured_media":20727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2104,2112,2109,3],"tags":[2667,366,2000,1672,2141,1384,74,2668],"class_list":["post-20726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-films","category-opinion","category-tartan-news","tag-ant-man","tag-films","tag-henry-wolski","tag-marvel","tag-online-exclusive","tag-opinion","tag-reviews","tag-superheroes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/AMWLogo.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5s3vR-5oi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10416"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20726"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20741,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20726\/revisions\/20741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/The-two-300x141.png\")
\u00a0 \u00a0It\u2019s a great saga that goes through many twists and turns with several different subplots, like Lang and Luis\u2019s (Michael Pe\u00f1a) security business, Walton Goggins playing a fantastic greedy billionaire person (?) and Lang trying to get back home to fool the Feds and avoid going to jail by breaking his house arrest.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/quantum-1-300x155.png\")
\u00a0 \u00a0I didn\u2019t see any reviews or press releases before I watched this movie, so every time something tense happened, I genuinely feared that one of our heroes were going to die before the family reunion. <\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Hank-300x139.png\")
\u00a0 \u00a0I do have a few problems that could be categorized as nitpicks, but these are a constant problem with superhero movies that still haven’t been fixed 10 years after the fact. There were several last minute rescues that were just a little too convenient, like Luis getting saved by his crew, or Sonny Burch getting on a ferry in record time. Also Hank finding Janet right before he was about to lose his mind.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Ant-Man-300x141.png\")
Rating:<\/b> 4.5 ants on the drum-set out of 5<\/span><\/h3>\n
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