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| Heroes don't get any bigger. |
The Marvel Cinematic Universe grows, or in this case,
‘shrinks’(sorry, had to) with its latest flick—Ant-Man. And I’m happy to say
that Marvel has truly mastered the art of making us like oddball characters because
Ant-Man is definitely one of its better movies.
The premise of the movie is pretty ‘small’ scale if you
compare it to, say Age Of Ultron.
Armed with the ability to shrink
in scale but increase in strength, good-guy-turned-thief Scott Lang(Paul Rudd)
must embrace his inner hero and help his mentor, Dr.Hank Pym(Michael
Douglas), protect the secret behind his Ant-Man suit from a new towering threat.Pym
and Lang must plan to pull off a heist that will,well,"save the world".
The movie starts out a bit wompy. It feels inconsistent in
its tone and tries to show as much as it can to the audience.But, once it’s
done feeling obliged to fill us in with information about all the characters,
it really gets things going.Some of the plot devices worked,the others fell
into the routine category. I loved how they handled Hank Pym and it’s great to
see Michael Douglas nail the role. His backstory was awesome and I wouldn’t
mind seeing a young Hank Pym’s version of Ant-Man in a future movie(Although,
I’m not sure how they’d ‘de-age’ Mr.Douglas).The dynamic with Scott and his
daughter didn’t interest me as much. We’ve seen it many times before and what
you think will happen, does happen.
Now, one of the rumors I heard about Edgar Wright leaving this project was that Marvel wanted to integrate other MCU things into the movie too much. But the way they dealt with where the Avengers were and how Ant-Man will fit into the ‘bigger’(I’ll stop.I promise) universe was just right.
The way the action sequences were shot definitely had an Edgar Wright feel to it. You can check out his test footage which was released at Comic Con in 2013.The 3D,for once, added more to the movie. Especially when our hero shrunk down and the depth of field became as shallow as possible. Peyton Reed, the director, makes good use of Ant-Man's powers and is creative enough to showcase some pretty cool fight scenes.
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| I want to see him react to stuff that will happen in Civil War. |
This is one of Marvel's, if not the, funniest movie yet. Paul Rudd
brings the charisma along with the comedic timing. However, the most hilarious
scenes involve Michael Pena(who plays Luis).Every line he said got me rolling. It
seemed like he was improvising most of the time, which can go terribly wrong
sometimes, but he made it work.
Like many other Marvel ventures, this movie lacks a good
villain as well. Sure, he looks badass and the climax fight is good to look at.
But, the character just wasn’t interesting enough. He was evil, just because. Pretty
clichéd.
Also, without spoiling anything, make sure you stay in the movie
hall till the end because there’re two after movie scenes .One mid-credit and
the other, post.
In the end, Ant-Man was the best Ant-Man movie we could ask
for.The characters were good,the script was funny,and the CGI looked good.It really felt like this man was running around with group of ants. Take it light-heartedly and you’ll end up having a great time.
So,have you seen this movie?What did you think about it?What's the funniest superhero movie you've ever seen?Comment below.