Finds a splendid balance between humour and action....

Rating: 7/10 (21 August 2016)

The reason I gave this movie a chance was simply that I was very curious as to how an action movie could be built around a superhero with a reference to ants. Ants? Not scary, not cool or tough or sinister or anything else than being annoying.
Our Antman is the classic Antihero, that flunks in almost every detail of his life. Gets fired from an Ice Cream Store selling smoothies, having three not very bright "Vombat" friends, living in a flat where the neighbors are having a 24/7 rave party and having this amazing ability as a thief of absolute no use as he is trying hard to rehabilitate himself.
He is also a father and without going into much detail here I would just comment, that this part of the movie is its weakest. His daughter is "ah so cute" and displays such deep affection towards him, although he has been in prison for quite a while (and probably having very little contact with her), that it seems fairy-tale like.
As other have pointed out the super villain is partly a mystery as to the motives of jeopardize the future of the earth.... His brain has been grilled? He has a father complex? Money?
Still the movie gets the job done by being entertaining and finding this well blended harmony between being ironic towards its own superhero and still making the action scenes being one big long thrilling roller-coaster ride.
Regards Simon
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