Engaging and Fun

Rating: 7/10 (10 October 2015)

Reposting now hopefully some of the pathetic Anti-Marvel trolls have gone.
I didn't have high hopes for this, but Ant-Man is yet another enjoyable super hero adventure from Marvel. It has a surprising amount of character stuff, good performances all round (especially from Michael Douglas, who oozes class) and the action is quirky fun for the most part. It didn't open well, but word of mouth helped bring it steady box office receipts, and now a sequel is apparently on the way.
Ant-Man's first shrinking sequence is astonishingly (sorry) inventive, starting with him washed down a plug-hole in a shower; and Paul Rudd is an engaging hero, playing it just right. You are not going to get The Dark Knight here; it's light-hearted for the most part, and while Yellow Jacket is a bit of generic villain I liked the actor in the role. Marvel do need to get away from villains in combat exo-suits, though.
Other than that Ant-Man is an engaging and likable adventure, with Ant-Man's powers inventively utilised, and an interesting little fight with The Falcon thrown in. There's a great gag involving Yellow Jacket and an Insectocutor, which had the whole audience laughing during the screening I attended. This may be Marvel's most family friendly movie to date; perhaps with the second movie they will go a bit darker. It whipped Fantastic Fail's ass, and now hopefully Marvel will get the rights to that, too.