Fun, Exciting, but most of all...surprising

Rating: 9/10 (21 July 2015)

Ant-Man is a movie that really surprised me. Not that I wasn't expecting the great and charismatic performances by Paul Rudd and Michael Douglas, I did, but I really wasn't expecting being entertained as much as this movie entertained me.
It has all the best ingredients to make a great Marvel film, since it combines light comedy and action almost perfectly. Let's talk about the comedy: this movie made me laugh, it made me laugh hard. This is by far the funniest movie I have seen this year and that deserves recognition. Paul Rudd nails it as Ant-Man and Michael Douglas is cast perfectly as Hank Pym. Also, great job by Evangeline Lilly and Michael Peña as well.
One or two things I didn't like so much about the movie is that the CGI isn't always as good as I though it should have been, cause there are parts in the movie that you can tell it's CGI and that's not a great sign. But it's a very small flaw that I can ignore. Also, the balance in the movie between comedy and seriousness isn't always perfect, because at times it just feels like you're watching a different movie.
These are just small flaws to the movie and overall Ant-Man is just a great standalone Marvel movie. It has great action, awesome performances, it's funny as hell, but most of all, it's a surprising movie, showing us an enthralling origin story about a superhero that not a lot people cared about. This movie will probably change their minds about Ant-Man. Did I mention it also fits in perfectly into the Marvel Cinematic Universe? It does.