"It's Not a Keychain!"

Rating: 10/10 (13 November 2015)

"Ant Man" has been one of my favorite Avengers, even in his other personae "Giant Man", "Wasp" and "YellowJacket". But this version of "Ant-Man" is not the same Ant-Man from the comics I read. That version was Dr. Henry Pym, who with his wife Janet van Dyne aka "Wasp" (Another version of Wasp), were part of the Avengers, maybe sometimes part of The Defenders, a short lived comic series that included members of The Avengers as well as Dr Strange. What is not told in any of The Avengers movies or even this movie, is that Hank Pym was the scientist who created Ultron- The films have Tony Stark doing it.
This film is based on one of the side stories, where a burglar named Scott Lang steals Ant-Man's suit, but ends up using it to defeat a crook named Darren Cross. That's mainly the story told here. But Hank Pym is a large part of it, in this rendition his daughter "Hope" (Evangeline Lilly) partially taking the place of the character of Janet van Dyne.
This film focuses more on the Scott Lang story, an ex crook who works with a couple of burglars and a computer hacker. He can't even keep a job at Baskin-Robbins, because "Baskin-Robbin's always finds out".
So he is forced to take a job with his burglar roommates. But it turns out to be a set-up, set up by Dr Pym himself. So, all Lang finds is a cool looking Motorcycle Riding outfit. Fun things happen when he puts it on.
Meanwhile, Darren Cross, Dr Pym's ex-protégé, responsible for Pym's loss of his company, has been trying to figure out the "Pym Particle" which is the basis of Ant-man's suit... Because he wants to sell it to some creepy looking guy. Pym knows that would be bad, so he wants to Sabotage that sale. But can he talk Lang into helping him, and will he be able to do it?
One of the things from the comics that translated into the movie was Pym's Helmet, which he uses to talk to Ants and Bugs.
Overall, I was pretty pleased with how this film came out- A lot of the things in it came straight from the comics, including the concept of what would happen if the suit-wearer went "Subatomic". But I mainly liked how this story takes the original Ant-Man and hands it off to the "new guy" (And his Daughter, but that's for a sequel). And once again, an i-Phone is used in a major gag - Watch for it.