After the girl Thor I am sure it's easy to think I don't like female superheroes if you haven't been a regular reader and know that many of my favorite marvel character are women...She-Hulk, Tigra, Ilsa Bloodstone, Angela. Satanna and Wasp. In fact I was more excited to see her onscreen than Ant-Man. I liked the first movie as it didn't take it self too seriously, but was pretty true to the character. I thought Marvel had already screwed the pooch , by no having Hank and Janet as part of the original team which did not include Black Widow and Hawkeye, so from that point we are totally off canon \, but that's what we have been dealing with. So the original Janet got lost in the sub-atomic universe and Scott is on house arrest when the movie picks up.
Ghost who is now a girl, has the main goal of self preservation and is competing against some gangsters trying to steal Pym's tech. I think they missed an opportunity here to make the gangsters,characters from the comics.It could have been villains like Boomerang, Blizzard, Constrictor , Grizzly ...I can name them all day, but you see where I am going here. There is really no point in Marvel ever making new characters for the movies. Th action sequences are highly entertaining, though the fight choreography is beginning to get stale as all the hand to hand is beginning to feel the same. Wasp does the same flying head scissors as Black Widow, at least have each character use a different style of martial arts.
I do like how they jerk the rug out from under you at the end to tie it into Infinity War, that certainly places Ant-man in a position to reach our "decease" heroes in a unique way. Since this is a path Dr. Strange has already traveled, he would be the link to Ant-man, and the tech exists to bring Ant-man back, can Stark and Banner figure it out, that is if Banner is not a Skrull, or perhaps he is and that is what he is trying to learn for himself. Overall I think Wasp came close to stealing the show, but Rudd is stayed true to his character so continues to make him likable. If you didn't see the first movie it's ok you can jump in and figure it out as they recap in a way.
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