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daibhidcI saw this yesterday, it was really good.
The story wasn't really much like Scott Lang's origin in the comics and yet it still managed to hit the same notes, most notably the more quirky aspects of Scott compared to the standard superhero (divorced ex-con motivated mostly by his love for his daughter)[1]. If you think about it, they even included Darren Cross being sick!
I loved all the experimentation with different things you can do with shrinking and ants. Electric ants! A fight in a briefcase! An ant bridge! They did a great job of selling these powers as being interesting. (And while it isn't stated directly, the fact the blue Pym bombs can make things bigger that weren't shrunk by the red ones prefigures Scott becoming Giant-Man, at least temporarily).
The characters were all good; Scott as a well-meaning guy who makes bad choices, Hank as the grumpy retired hero[2], Hope and Darren, who both feel let down by Hank but react in very different ways. The secondary characters were a bit broad (after all, this was intially written as a comedy) but fun, and I liked that while Cassie's mom's boyfriend was an antagonist that didn't make him a bad person.
(In fact, if you accept Hope's belief that Darren was driven insane by the Pym particles and his real personality is resentful of Hank but not actually homicidal, this superhero film is remarkably free of bad people. Well except for the HYDRA guys.)
And a cameo by Falcon, which will certainly make my nephew happy since Sam Wilson is one of his favourite characters.
Any criticism? Well, I'm disappointed that Hope doesn't become Wasp until the teaser, although I did appreciate that at no point did anyone even suggest that her dad was keeping her out of it because she was a woman. Might I suggest she should be in the title of the next one? Ant-Man and the Wasp is a title with some Marvel history. The Wasp and Ant-Man isn't, as far as I know, but why not?
[1] I'm particularly pleased they didn't write Cassie out because she was brilliant. Although it looks like it'll be a while before Marvel do a Stature film 8-)...
[2] An interesting development establishing that the MCU did have superheroes between Cap disappearing and Tony building his armour. I hope this gets picked up on in subsequent films and/or series (Agents of ATLAS? Luke Cage's dad's seventies Avengers?)
The story wasn't really much like Scott Lang's origin in the comics and yet it still managed to hit the same notes, most notably the more quirky aspects of Scott compared to the standard superhero (divorced ex-con motivated mostly by his love for his daughter)[1]. If you think about it, they even included Darren Cross being sick!
I loved all the experimentation with different things you can do with shrinking and ants. Electric ants! A fight in a briefcase! An ant bridge! They did a great job of selling these powers as being interesting. (And while it isn't stated directly, the fact the blue Pym bombs can make things bigger that weren't shrunk by the red ones prefigures Scott becoming Giant-Man, at least temporarily).
The characters were all good; Scott as a well-meaning guy who makes bad choices, Hank as the grumpy retired hero[2], Hope and Darren, who both feel let down by Hank but react in very different ways. The secondary characters were a bit broad (after all, this was intially written as a comedy) but fun, and I liked that while Cassie's mom's boyfriend was an antagonist that didn't make him a bad person.
(In fact, if you accept Hope's belief that Darren was driven insane by the Pym particles and his real personality is resentful of Hank but not actually homicidal, this superhero film is remarkably free of bad people. Well except for the HYDRA guys.)
And a cameo by Falcon, which will certainly make my nephew happy since Sam Wilson is one of his favourite characters.
Any criticism? Well, I'm disappointed that Hope doesn't become Wasp until the teaser, although I did appreciate that at no point did anyone even suggest that her dad was keeping her out of it because she was a woman. Might I suggest she should be in the title of the next one? Ant-Man and the Wasp is a title with some Marvel history. The Wasp and Ant-Man isn't, as far as I know, but why not?
[1] I'm particularly pleased they didn't write Cassie out because she was brilliant. Although it looks like it'll be a while before Marvel do a Stature film 8-)...
[2] An interesting development establishing that the MCU did have superheroes between Cap disappearing and Tony building his armour. I hope this gets picked up on in subsequent films and/or series (Agents of ATLAS? Luke Cage's dad's seventies Avengers?)
