How sad is this?

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

We went to see this movie at the weekend.. Short review . It's worth watching. Slightly longer review. An enjoyable Marvel movie aimed more at the younger audience. There is plenty of action and some of the set pieces are actually quite funny. Not as heavyweight as the other recent offerings , but still a good movie. Ignore the reviews that say it's flat , it's not. Perhaps they we're expecting Macbeth? The Ghost character is played by the female lead out of Killjoys. She is OK in this , but much better in Killjoys... In conclusion , a good way to spend a couple of hours with your brain switched off...

If you do not like this movie, then you do not like fun. Yes it is a little sappy at moments. But it is so much fun. It is a good pick me up after Infinity War. Marvel is great at adjusting its tone. You can tell if someone has a stick up their butt. It is anyone that did not like this movie. The can say it is just not for them. That would be fair. No movie is for everyone. This movie has everything a movie really should have. It takes you out of the mundane and into another universe. You can escape your day to day life and just be a kid again. These movies are about the only thing in this modern age that I would like to have had in my childhood. I am glad I can see these movies with my kids and just have a good time.

"Ant-Man And The Wasp" comes as a palate cleanser following the events of Infinity War. Wisely setting the story prior to the events of the last Marvel film, we find Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) under house arrest following his plea deal for his part in the events show in "Captain America: Civil War". Abandoned by Hank Pym and Hope Van Dyne for stealing the AntMan suit for his amateur Avengering, Scott re-establishes contact when Pym's experiments with accessing the Quantum Realm produces a link between him and Hope Van Dyne, (Michelle Pfeiffer) the original Wasp lost there many years ago. "It was alright" was my overriding thought at the conclusion of "AntMan And The Wasp". It's slight and relatively inconsequential to the universe as a whole, but it has to be - as we're effectively on hold until the MCU narrative kicks off again with Avengers 4. Despite Rudd, and his reliable comic timing and affable style "Antman 2" is not as funny as either of the Guardians films, "Spiderman: Homecoming" or the universes comedic highspot, "Thor Ragnorok". I feel like a lot of the character moments in the film fell a bit flat. The chemistry is there between Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly and with his on screen daughter. . I just didn't buy it anywhere else. Unfortunately, this continues with the villains of the piece, Hannah John-Kamen's Ghost is perhaps too sympathetic to root against - and Walton Coggins black market science dealer feels like a low rent version of The Vulture, and never of any real threat to either antagonist or the protagonists. After that, I feel that I should reiterate... I felt it was alright, not bad, just not great. The effects are pretty amazing though both with shrinking and growing, the de-aging scenes for multiple characters and with Ghost's phasing in and out of reality. The action scenes are first class too, both fighting and the car chases. I did laugh a few times too, often inspired by Michael Pena's return as Luis, so it's not a totally comedic failure. I hope that Ant-Man does have a role to play in Avengers 4 (I presume he must from the post Credits scene) but I feel I'd like a different creative force behind the film for Ant-Man 3, just to freshen it up in the way Taika Waititi did with "Ragnorok".

The first movie in the continuing Marvel Universe was good fun and did reasonably well at the box office, a sequel was probably expected, and I hoped that it could be even better, directed by Peyton Reed (Bring It On, Down with Love, The Break-Up, Yes Man). Basically in 1987, Janet Van Dyne aka the Wasp (Michelle Pfeiffer) shrank between the molecules of a Soviet nuclear missile, it was disabled, but she became trapped in the sub-atomic quantum realm, her husband Dr. Hank Pym aka the original Ant-Man (Michael Douglas) raised their daughter Hope, believing that Janet is dead. Years later, former criminal Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) has taken the mantle to become Ant-Man, but since secretly helping Captain America during the skirmish between the Avengers, he is under house arrest, while Pym and Hope (Lost's Evangeline Lilly) are in hiding and have cut ties with Scott. Two years on, Scott has a realistic dream about the quantum realm, and he sees Janet, with whom he is quantumly entangled, he gives Pym a call to tell him about it. Hope kidnaps Scott, leaving a decoy, a giant ant, to mimic Scott's movements, so as not to arouse the suspicion of the FBI and agent Jimmy Woo (Randall Park). Seeing the dream as a message and a confirmation that Janet is alive, Pym and Hope work to create a tunnel stable enough to launch a vehicle into the quantum realm and rescue Janet. There is one part required to complete the tunnel, Hope arranges to meet black market dealer Sonny Burch (Walton Goggins) to buy it, but he knows the potential profit that could be earned from Pym and Hope's research. Burch double-crosses them, Hope, as the Wasp, fights him and his men off, until she is attacked by a quantumly unstable masked woman, Scott, as Ant-Man tries to help fight off this "ghost", but she escapes with Pym's portable lab. Pym reluctantly visits his estranged former partner Dr. Bill Foster (Laurence Fishburne) who helps them locate the lab. The ghost restrains Scott, Hope, and Pym when they arrive, she reveals herself to be Ava Starr (Hannah John-Kamen), her father Elihas (Michael Cerveris), another former partner of Pym's, accidentally killed himself during a quantum experiment, which resulted in Ava's unstable state. Foster reveals that he has been helping Ava, they are planning to cure her, using Janet's quantum energy, Pym refuses to help them, believing that this will kill Janet, the trio manage to escape. With the needed part, the tunnel is now stable, Pym and Hope are able to contact Janet, who through Scott communicates her precise location, but warns that they only have two hours before the unstable nature of the realm separates them for a century. Burch learns their location from Scott's business partners Luis (Crash's Michael Peña), Dave (Tip "T.I." Harris), and Kurt (David Dastmalchian), and informs a contact at the FBI. Luis warns Scott, who rushes home before Woo can see him breaking his house arrest, leaving Pym and Hope to be arrested, and for their lab to be taken by Ava. Scott is soon able to help Pym and Hope escape custody, and they find the lab. Pym decides to take the risk to enter the quantum realm, Scott and Hope distract Ava while he does so, but the pair also have to fight Burch and his men. Luis, Dave, and Kurt help apprehend Burch, allowing Pym to successfully find Janet, and Scott and Hope manage to stop Ava before she can take Janet's energy. Pym and Janet safely return from the quantum realm, and Janet voluntarily gifts some of her energy to Ava to temporarily stabilise her. Scott returns home, in time for a now suspicious Woo to release him at the end of his house arrest, while Ava and Foster go into hiding. In the mid-credits sequence, Pym, Hope, and Janet send Scott into the quantum realm to harvest quantum energy to continue helping Ava, but before they can bring Scott back, Pym, Hope, and Janet all disintegrate (the ending of Avengers: Infinity War), leaving Scott drifting. Also starring Bobby Cannavale as Jim Paxton, Judy Greer as Maggie, Abby Ryder Fortson as Cassie and Stan Lee as Shrunken Car Man. Rudd is much more convincing this time as the leading hero with deadpan quips, Lilly gets more time on screen as the second hero of the piece, Douglas remains good as the wise scientist, Pfeiffer is good but limited for obvious reasons, and the supporting cast are all good too. The story is more though-out, much slicker and wittier than perhaps previously, and the special effects are even better, much more shrinking and growing this time, and fantastic fast-paced chase and fight sequences, and funny stuff as well, a really fun superhero action adventure. Very good!