A gorgeous mess.

Rating: 7/10 (10 December 2015)

I expected nothing from Ant-man. Nothing. To be short, reason being that the MCU movies lately have just lacked depth. They've been less about the people behind the heroes and more about squeezing in fancy graphics and a massive amount of aloof, sleep- inducing action. Though to be fair, the latter is good fan-service for some.
Back to Ant-Man. I felt like something was wrong with the movie as I spent the first 30 minutes wondering whether this was all just a joke but then the uncanny strangeness over it all somehow grabbed hold of and intrigued me so I just stuck with it. I actually got some great laughs out of it, at one point in which I ended up having a terribly painful cramping fit for about a minute.
Here's how it is, you either love it or hate it and it all depends on what your mind-set's like. If you go in there expecting a serious, deep, dark story surrounding the rise of a hero then you'll be effed. No, really, you'll need to look beyond the terrible, cheesy dialogues, silly stereotypes, the changes of cast from the original comics and the errors in the physics to find that little spark, the twinkly- eyedness and have fun with it as a part of something new entirely to join the MCU movie adaptations.
It all culminates in a gorgeous mess playing around with our perception of relativity, using the size of the Ant-Man as a source of fun and interesting problem-solving. Focus too much on what you don't like and you'll miss the lighthearted fun. Who's to say the story of a burdened hero can't be lighthearted too?