Ant
Man & The Wasp 7/10
I
played myself! This will contain all kinds of spoilers. I did not
enjoy the first Ant Man movie so when I saw that this was coming out
I told myself that I could skip it. I have seen every single film
Marvel has put out as part of the MCU but for whatever reason thought
that I could skip this one and be okay with it. I was a damned fool.
Ant Man & The Wasp was better than I expected and had an ending
that made me realize how stupid I was to not see this sooner. I mean,
its fine that I waited but not really. This takes place after Civil War and Paul Rudd aka Ant Man aka Scott Lang is on house arrest for
violating the Sokovia Accords. That's the shit where if you wanna be
a superhero you gotta register. He is just living his weird life at
home and playing with his kid and learning magic tricks online.
Lang
starts having these weird visions and it turns out to be Janet van
Dyne who is played by Michelle Pfeiffer. Now let me tell you about
how amazing she looks. She looks amazing.
Moving on. On a mission
thirty years ago she and Hank Pym played by Michael Douglas she got
sucked into the quantum realm and has been stuck there all this time.
Just floating around in an acid trip for three damned decades. Hank
and Hope played by Evangeline Lilly want to use Lang's mind to get
into that place and get Janet back. Sounds insane. By the way, they
end up kidnapping Lang and he freaks out because he is on house
arrest. They place his ankle monitor on a giant ant that can imitate
all of Lang's movements throughout the day. The police constantly
check in on Lang and he always manages to just make it back home in
time.
There
is a shit ton of things happening in this movie so I am not gonna
recap the entire thing. There is a villain that is not really a
villain named Ghost played by Hannah John-Kamen who I now want to be
my wife. I recognized her from a couple other shows I watch and
thought she was cute but watching her act crazy as hell made me like
her more. Because I got issues.
She is being helped by Pym's old
partner Bill Foster played by Laurence Fishburne. He turns on Pym. No
one likes Pym. He's a dick. Now Ghost is an awesome ass character.
She can phase through anything but is in constant pain unless she is
locked in this weird ass room.
The
rest of this movie is a lot of very original fights and chases. They
take full advantage of the powers that Ant Man and The Wasp have. I
thought it would get old seeing things get big and small but they
kept coming up with new ways to do it. Lang's daughter played by Abby
Ryder Fortson was really good in this and I hope she is in the next
film. If there is one. I'll get to that in a minute. Michael Peña
was funny again and supplied some scenes that made me crack up. Hell,
even Walter Goggins shows up and I had no idea he was in this. By the
way, I managed to not have this movie spoiled! I didn't know what the
fuck was gonna happen in this movie!
Now to
the mid-credit scene.
Infinity War was a thing that happened. If you don't know what happened in
that movie you sure as hell need to stop reading right now.
You
still here?
Half
the universe DIED!!!
Thanos
snapped his goddamn fingers and people started disappearing left and
right. I knew this happened but for some reason did not associate it
with this movie I was watching. So when Lang after everything is fine
and happy goes into the tiny universe to get some good juice I did
not know what was going to happen. He gets it and when he tells Pym,
his wife, and daughter he is ready and they don't respond he thinks
they are joking. I didn't know what was happening until you saw that
there was nothing left but dust floating away. INFINITY WAR!!! They
are fucking dead and Lang is left floating in the fucking ethereal
realm with no way to get back! That fucked me up so bad! Fuck it.
Raising my rating a point just because of that ending. If you did not
see this because reviewers were shitting on it you should give it a
try. I'm not someone that loves everything Marvel does. Thor 1 and 2
were ass garbage. But you should see this. It's good. Not perfect. There are some pacing issues just like with the first but still worth checking out.
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