Ant-Man

I'm at the theater about to watch Ant-Man.  I have avoided most trailers for the movie and any information I can find I've ignored. Let's see what happens.

Ant-Man is a fun feel good movie. It is not deep, but it doesn't especially try to be. The only real deep parts were some of the character moments, but over all the movie is just fun. The training scene where Scott learns about his power is a good example of this. It shows really cool visuals with a lot of humor. Speaking of visuals this movie looks amazing. The ants look really good and the first time Scott shrinks down feels really unnerving.

The characters are interesting because I feel its where the movie both excels and falls short on. Scott for example seems to only be defined by his daughter as his Hank, but I found myself really liking them both. Speaking of Hank I don't really get why he was a superhero in the first place or why he thought the world shouldn't have his tech. The antagonist was interesting in my option. He shout the approval of Hank, and combined with his slowly crumbling mind made is undoing. Hope was actually a character that I completely get. Why she feels the way she does about her father makes a lot of sense to me. The side characters also filled their roles well. Scott's crime crew were funny and didn't get annoying, and Cassie was adorable for the the whole film.

Janet Van Dyne is something that could get a lot of people really angry at this movie for. For those of you not in the loop Janet(The Wasp) was a founding members of the Avengers who named the team. In the Ant-Man movie she is dead before it even starts. This can very understandably make a lot of people annoyed. This very important female character has been turned into someone's tragic backstory. My thought's? I have never actually read comic with Janet in it. My only experience with the Wasp was in the Earth's Mightiest Heroes cartoon where I found her extremely annoying, so I didn't care very much as I watched the film.

 I was not expecting to walk out of Ant-Man and have had a better time then when I watched Age of Ultron, but I did. This was just a fun movie. I want to see these characters again, so I'm looking forward to an 'Ant-Man and Wasp' movie. And yes, it needs to be called that.