Written by Chris McKenna And Erik Sommers And Paul Rudd And Andrew Barrer And Gabriel Ferrari
Directed by Peyton Reed
Scott: "I do some dumb things and the people I love the most, they pay the price."
Remember back in 2018 when most of the Avengers were getting their asses handed to them and then a certain snap took out half the universe? Well, other stuff was going on a bit before the latter part, notably with Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) and company.
Two years since a certain civil Scott kind had no choice but to retire the Ant-Man gig and serve a house arrest, which he was nearing completion. Then chaos ensued in the form of Scott sharing visions with the once thought dead Janet Van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer) in the Quantum Realm and as a result, Scott found himself getting reunited with Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) and his daughter, Hope (Evangeline Lilly). Quite the reunion too I might add.
Since the last time Scott saw either one of them, Hope assumed her Mother's former mantle of Wasp and Hank was just annoyed with Scott's recklessness in general but both of them needed him for their ultimate goal of going into the Quantum Realm and retrieving Janet. Unfortunately for all three of them, they had quite a few obstacles in their way.
The most notable one being the main antagonist of the piece - Ava Starr, aka Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen) whose motivations for Janet were quickly revealed to be more survival than world ending based. Ghost along with Hank's former friend, Bill Foster (Laurence Fishburne) had the unenviable ability of being able to pause in and out but it had gotten to the point where her very life was at stake and she was close to death.
That largely put her at odd with both Ant-Man and the Wasp and many decent enough fight scenes between the three of them as a shrunken lab became the hottest commodity of the movie along with getting Janet back into the present day. Hank succeeded in getting Janet but their reunion while nice also felt a tad rushed. However despite her actions throughout the whole movie, Ghost did manage to mostly get what she wanted, bucked an MCU villain trend (which some others have since bucked) and even took a little accountability for her actions.
In terms of villains, Ghost wouldn't be on anyone's favourite list for the MCU but she was somewhat better compared to black market dealer Sonny Burch (Walter Goggins). I didn't really care for him as a secondary villain but he did have some decent scenes with Luis (Michael Pena), Kurt (David Dastmalchian) and Dave (Tip 'TI' Harris) and I did think those three were better used in this movie compared to the first one.
As for the family, it's again the strength of the Ant-Man movies. Scott had great scenes again with Cassie (Abby Ryder Fortson) while the Van Dyne/Pym and Bill/Ava dynamics also worked similarly well. There was also the introduction of Agent Jimmy Woo (Randall Park) who seemed to have a more friendlier antagonistic banter with Scott to boot.
- The mid and post credit scenes saw Scott trapped in the Quantum Realm while his loved ones were getting the snap.
- Scott's suit constantly malfunctioning had it's funny moments but at least we did get one moment where it had severe consequences with Hope having to save his life.
- Hope had a little too much fun with mocking Scott for being Team Captain America.
- Chronology: Yup, it's 2018, set during the events of Avengers: Infinity War.
Ant-Man And The Wasp made for a decent sequel, keeping the action relatively smaller scale and more personal. It's not a better or worse film than the first one, though in some respects a bit more of the same way. Overall, it's pretty decent stuff.
Rating: 7 out of 10
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