The Wasp, Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly), is listed in the title, but her significance to the story and action does not amount to as much as should have been promised. The film’s main weakness, however enjoyable throughout, is that it rides into heroic battle without the backbone it seems to promise. There are plot points paved over so aberrantly heavily that it seems as if part of the joke is not explaining things to its audience. Ranging from the comic-book capacity of drama seen in The Avengers: Infinity War (2018) to the self-referential Guardians of the Galaxy (20), the film lies somewhere in the middle, a place more willing and giving to its audience to crack a joke and an authentic smile once in a while, yet also delivering in the Slam! Pow! action that translates from comic book to screen.ĭoes the film all work? Not necessarily. Ant-Man Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) really just crawled his way into familiarity, thanks to the Avengers team who piggybacked him into the story.Īnt-Man and the Wasp feels more assured and at least a little more confident in itself. How could it not be? The construction of the story was passed around between different writers and directors the film had nearly no chance of solving its own identity. Ant-Man (2015) entered the party rather aloof, its foot in the door and seemingly unsure of itself.
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