I have to say, I'm actually impressed with this latest Ant-Man movie! Better than my viewing with Avengers: Age of Ultron (not a bad movie, though) in my opinion! Just like last summer's Guardians of the Galaxy, Ant-Man has proven to be a very entertaining non-Avenger Marvel movie even with a strange concept of a hero who can shrink himself the size of an ant and battle enemies with the horde of ants at his command! And it looks like that it turned to be a pretty good film even without Edgar Wright as their director! I never knew that Paul Rudd, as the goofball master criminal thief Scott Lang, could really pull it off as our new Ant-Man even though Hank Pym, played by Michael Douglas, should have been the main Ant-Man like he was in the comics. But Scott's daughter Cassie Lang is just the CUTEST THING I see in Ant-Man! "Daddy, is that you?" Awww.
Every time I see young Hank Pym in the flashbacks, makes me wish that Marvel would at least consider making a prequel about how he first developed the Pym Particles and his discovery on the "Quantum Realm" (or the Microverse), and see more of the partnership/relationship between the original Ant-Man and the Wasp, A.K.A. Janet van Dyne (on screen together for the first time even for just a few minutes)! Though I was a bit sad to see what happen to poor Jan when she sacrificed her life to save Hank while sabotaging the Soviet rocket. But because Scott was able to survive being in the Quantum Realm for so long after defeating Yellowjacket, I was relieved to learn that Jan may in fact be still alive. Now that, I would love to see the original Wasp (perhaps Catherine Zeta-Jones, married to Michael Douglas in real life, can play her) again or witness Hope van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly), Hank & Janet's daughter, in action as the new Wasp!
Michael Peña of course is the one actor who absolutely STOLE THE MOVIE. He makes me laugh SO HARD everytime he says some hilarious stuff that don't make sense but nonetheless nailed it without taking it too serious! Gotta give thanks to Paul Rudd, Adam Mackay and Edgar Wright for giving the humorous feel to the script that was rewritten a couple of times ever since Bring It On director Peyton Reed came in to helm what almost became "Marvel's first flop"! I thought it was pretty funny the way that everytime we see Ant-Man and Yellowjacket fight, we would see them from our normal size perspective like it wasn't as loud or violent when they're pretty tiny as though they are harmless insects. Love the Thomas the Tank Engine gag, though! Hahahaha!
I sure hope that because of the excellent word-of-mouth, there may have to be plans of telling more of the story of Ant-Man despite his sequel not among the line of Phase 3 movies. With the post-credits scene, I am so pumped up for next May's Captain America: Civil War, the start of Phase 3 (with all the films leading up to the Russo Brothers' Avengers: Infinity War)!
