I’m really glad I wrote down all the MCU recap stuff I needed in advance, because I straight-up forgot this movie existed. I thought I was done after Infinity War.
The last Ant-Man was a nice, refreshing comedy after the big big epicness of an Avengers team-up. It was particularly well-timed since Age of Ultron was so painfully forgettable. It’s pretty clear that the intent here was to provide the same levity after the devastating trauma that was Infinity War, but…
Look, I enjoyed Ant-Man and the Wasp. It was a perfectly pleasurable way to kill a couple hours. I wasn’t thrilled to watch it a second time, but I also don’t regret it. I just wish that they’d actually used Ghost to her full potential, y’know? I think the character presented to us was compelling and interesting and criminally underused. And we learn about her whole deal by way of villain monologue. Yawn.
Paul Rudd is a national treasure, but we already knew that. The HYDRA bad guy was dumb. Lawrence Fishburne being morally torn about what to do was really interesting. The FBI was… probably necessary? But I could have done without it.
It’s like, Marvel started out by saying “We want to scale down the movies a little bit after killing half the universe,” and then halfway through production said “haha but shove two more bad guys in this movie.”
Michael Peña is really goddamn funny. I wish the screenwriter didn’t recycle the storytelling gag from the first movie. Actually, scratch that. I wish they didn’t recycle every gag from the first movie.
I feel like the only purpose of Ant-Man and the Wasp was to set up the part of Endgame where Scott has to escape from the quantum realm before he can team up with the Avengers, but we already saw him in every trailer, so… I’m not all that compelled.
Speaking of Endgame, can we watch that now?