| 117 min |
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 17 July 2015 (USA)
Armed with a super-suit with the astonishing ability to
shrink in scale but increase in strength, cat burglar Scott Lang must embrace
his inner hero and help his mentor, Dr. Hank Pym, plan and pull off a heist
that will save the world.
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| Ant-Man (2015) |
Director: Peyton
Reed
Writers: Edgar
Wright (screenplay), Joe Cornish (screenplay)
Stars: Paul Rudd,
Michael Douglas, Corey Stoll
Storyline
Armed with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but
increase in strength, con-man Scott Lang must embrace his inner-hero and help
his mentor, Dr. Hank Pym, protect the secret behind his spectacular Ant-Man
suit from a new generation of towering threats. Against seemingly
insurmountable obstacles, Pym and Lang must plan and pull off a heist that will
save the world.
Did You Know?
Trivia
The opening scene takes place in 1989, the release year of
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989). The film had been in development since the
late 1980s. "Ant-Man" creator Stan Lee had made a pitch to New Line
Entertainment but they found the premise too similar to "Honey, I Shrunk
the Kids". The project thus languished for two decades.
Goofs
Titanium is twice mentioned as if it were supremely strong
("You can't break that--it's titanium!"), when it is not. It is
stronger than steel, for a given weight or thickness, but it is not
invulnerable. (It has become a modern buzzword, that's all.)
Quotes
Scott Lang: [Surrounded by police] Wait I didn't steal
anything! I was returning something I stole!
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| Ant-Man (2015) |
User Reviews
I must admit that I never got into comic books, so when I
heard Paul Rudd would be Marvel's Ant-Man, I had to read the Ant-Man Wikipedia
entry just to make sure it wasn't some total prank. Stupid me, he first
appeared in 1962, no doubt capitalizing on those halcyon days when the young
males across America were obsessed with ants, quantum theory, and microphilia
in general.
I'm not the only one with a bit of disbelief. While I was
waiting in line to see Terminator Genisys, a stranger pointed over to the Ant-
Man poster and said, "Ant-Man?! Man, they're really scraping the bottom of
the barrel for these Marvel movies."
But let's not make a mountain out of an ant hill. The
Ant-Man movie is the light-hearted, tongue-in-cheek, self-aware, almost campy
movie that I wanted Avengers: Age of Ultron to be. Paul Rudd is the best
casting of a Marvel hero since Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark. Michael Douglas
brings some class to the whole affair, Evangeline Lilly isn't given a ton to
work with but succeeds at being told she's crucial yet largely relegated to
behind-the-scenes work, and Michael Peña provides some nice laughs as a goofy
and cocksure sidekick.
Once again, the villain is actually science, or at least
cutting- edge science. That's because the technology that makes the Ant-Man
possible, the Pym particle, could be used for a lot of good, but in the wrong
hands, it will surely be used for a lot of bad. And you can tell immediately
that Corey Stoll as Darren Cross is bad because he's bald. He pretty
monolithically bad, the only reason for which seems to be that Dr. Pym wouldn't
raise him as a surrogate father figure.
All of the summer blockbusters now require some throwaway
side story about divorce and wanting to be better parents for their kids. I
wish all those side stories would go subatomic and be lost forever, allowing
for more time to "mount the thorax."
Ant-Man can control ants, too! But he can't until he learns
how to clear his mind. So Hope van Dyne tells him to think of his daughter.
Simple! Easy peasy, calabrese! He can't fly, though, even though some ants can
fly. This all becomes problematic when Yellowjacket shows up and can fly and
shoot lasers. Lasers seem lame when Yellowjacket could've had cannons that
transform living creatures into small piles of ectoplasmic goop.
As in Terminator Genisys, a total victory for the good guys
includes blowing up a server farm. Good thing Darren Cross, just like Skynet,
never heard of putting data way up high in The Cloud.
The final battle includes some imagery that almost made me
wish I'd seen it in 3D, or at least after enjoying some medicinal tea. It
hasn't been this much fun to be small since Rick Moranis shrunk his kids.
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