It’s hard to remember that Scott Lang and Hope Van Dyne were romantically involved at all by the end of the first movie, and hard to remember the reason that Lang is under house arrest. Josh: He’s not entirely useless, because he’s “quantumly entangled” with Janet (which is a load of horseshit). Even as a businessman, it’s obvious that the other guys are running the business without him. It’s hard to remember, going into this one, that Janet Van Dyne and Hank Pym were the original Ant-Man and Wasp duo, or that Janet vanished into the quantum realm.Īrley: Scott Lang is not the original Ant-Man so they’re cheating the comic book fans by skipping the whole Hank/Janet narrative.
One of the major weaknesses of the Ant-Man series is how forgettable its movies are. Josh: You were brainwashed at an early age. The ants are right from the Marvel pages. I didn’t have the problem with it being cartoonish, probably because I’m coming from the comics. It felt like it had been adapted from Saturday morning.Īrley: There’s already a disconnect from the rest of the Marvel universe, because Ant-Man’s role in the MCU is totally different from the comics. It made Ant-Man and the Wasp feel more cartoonish than the other movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Having giant ants really breaks the universe for me.
It’s kinda hard to buy him as an action hero, but there were enough funny moments to gloss over it for a while. Josh: There was some good humor in the beginning, then drags for a bit, then there’s a great moment in the middle, then drags some more, and then it ends. There were a few really brief shining highlights but otherwise just a fairly fun movie. Josh: Hi! What were your initial impressions of this movie?Īrley : Perfectly “fine.” It hits the standard beats. In this sequel to 2015’s Ant-Man, convicted felon Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) has only days remaining on his house arrest when he’s abducted by Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly) and her father Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) because they believe he holds the key to rescuing Hope’s mother Janet Van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer) from the quantum realm where she disappeared 30 years before.