I was meant to put these up last week but it's been a little bit busy, but last week I was very lucky to get to the European premiere of Ant-Man.
I'm not going to spoil the movie - I have no idea when it's meant to be opening Stateside (I only know it's opening this Friday in the UK) - but it's a blast of a movie.
It has a level of humour not seen since the earlier Marvel movies and knows it's a bit of a preposterous idea...the thought of a man shrinking to ant size, but it carries it off well.
The cast is well matched. Inevitably, some cast members are given a bit of a short straw, especially in the case of Evangeline Lilly who seems ill at ease here but gets a great pay off in the first of the end credit sequences. Paul Rudd is an inspired choice for Scott Lang and Michael Douglas gets his punches in and does a great job as the Ben Kenobi-like Hank Pym. Michael Pena steals the scenes with his motormouth sidekick with basically a one-track joke that never seems to get tired.
Highlights of the movie - the 3D works brilliantly here, look out for an Avenger (actually, make that two) making the obligatory cameo, Thomas the Tank Engine and TWO end credit sequences (sorry guys, you'll have to sit through ALL of the titles to get to the second sequence)
A great romp of a movie and quite possibly the best of the Marvel movies so far...Cap 2 notwithstanding. It's a movie that will stand up to a repeat watch, if only to spot everything that points elsewhere...It's been the first movie in a long time (since Rocky IV!) where the auditorium has clapped and cheered at all the right points which must mean it's done something very right!
Yes, that's me in the profile pic...kudos for guessing the movie...
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