Ant-Man

Unlike other Marvel Comics based productions, Ant-Man has a little substance and because it’s not at all bad acted, it quite works. That’s also the Screen Junkies team opinion as well. They said that Ant-Man is one of the most ridiculous superheroes, and, more than that it is played by Paul Rudd who made “Paul Rudd things” before meeting Hank Pym and becoming a superhero.

They were exaggerating, of course. The movie is watchable and has also some attempts to humor, thanks especially to Michael Peña and his team of gangsters. By the way, I like how he plays, and I have especially liked him in The Lucky Ones (2008).

Development of an Ant-Man film began in the late 1980s, when Ant-Man co-creator Stan Lee pitched the idea to New World Entertainment, Marvel Comics’ parent company at the time. However, Walt Disney Pictures was developing a film based on a similar concept, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, and nothing came to fruition.

Ant-Man – Paul Rudd

The film was directed by Peyton Reed, and was written by Edgar Wright & Joe Cornish and Adam McKay & Paul Rudd. It stars Rudd as Scott Lang, the future Ant-Man, a former convict, Evangeline Lilly as Pym’s daughter, a scientist as well, and his heiress, Corey Stoll as Darren Cross, Professor Pym’s protegee, and handler of Pym Industries along the daughter, Bobby Cannavale as Paxton, a policeman living now with Lang’s former wife, Michael Peña as Luis, Scott Lang’s friend, a guy full of schemes with more or less involuntary humor, Tip “T.I.” Harris as a member in Luis’s team, Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson, an Avenger (go figure, in this movie’s reality, the Avengers are active and they have their own agency, prooving that Marvel Comics is maintaining a sort of continuity in all its franchises), Wood Harris as Paxton’s partner, another policeman, Judy Greer is Lang’s former wife and mother of Lang’s cute, loyal, and precocious daughter Cassie, too little to be credited here, David Dastmalchian as Kurt, another member of Luis’s crew, and not at all the least, Michael Douglas as Professor Hank Pym, the great inventor and sometimes boxer.

It was a real refreshment after the big disappointment called The Avengers. It has the same goal as any “superhero movie”, it is about saving the world, but this time, it’s not about saving it from aliens, but from greed, military contractor’s greed, actually. Without spoiling it, on very short, it’s about some technology of shrinking things to ants’ dimensions with the aid of an unavoidable costume, which helps the superhero to do unrealistic and supernaturally things. What I wanted to emphasize is that this flick much better acted than any Iron Man sequel (Iron Man 3 was a complete disaster), or any Avengers.

Ant-Man – poster

Here, you have the Honest Trailer which is funny, but it tries too much to undermine this movie who already made more than $500Mil from its release in June, 2015.

As good (or nasty) as it gets, I prefer to use them here instead of the official ones, as much as possible. In the end, a note: Paul Rudd was quoted as saying in an interview “Eliminate anything fun for a year and then you can play a hero”. Right on spot!

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