This week we would be reviewing an exciting movie called “Ant-Man and the Wasp” well for the records “Ant-Man” is one of the new super hero’s from the marvel group. He had his first debut in 2015 with the same cast, where he displayed his super powers of shrinking and increasing in size, it was really nice to see an addition to the Marvel group, they just have to be extremely creative and innovative in keeping us entertained. Although they were some mixed feeling then with his unique powers, I guess we have gotten so used to him now, hence the huge expectations from cinema lovers in going all out to see this new edition. Most people had mixed feeling about them not surpassing the expectations of the first one, but then I would give it to them for putting out a nice movie, and sincerely it wasn’t bad after all. Seeing it a few weeks after and we still have the cinema halls filled, which for me is a good sign that they would be making some good money back.
The movie was produced by the Walt Disney Pictures and was written by the famous Gabriel Ferrari, Andrew Barrer and Erik Sommers, who are well known for their lovely skills in movie script writing. This movie was directed by Peyton Reed and they sure did have a good number of popular cast. The production was good, the storyline was beautiful and the costumes were also on point. there was also nice blend with the new casts that were added they the story quiet exciting. I kind of also like the swift process between moving from a normal person to a tiny being, the switch was so fast and funny.
Ant-Man started out calmly then moved straight into the action scenes. They started off with showing us the lead actor Paul Rudd who was called Scott Lang “Ant-Man” in the movie, being guarded at home, as he was placed on a 3year term house arrest. Scott was banned from going out, he could only move within the house till the investigation concerning the havoc he caused in Germany in the first edition of the movie was over. He was allowed to have his family and friends come over but just couldn’t leave, until Evangeline Lilly known as “Hope Van Dyne/ The Wasp” came around to seek his help in assisting her and her dad in setting her mother free. Hope’s mother had being trapped in time during a past experiment that went bad. Hope and her dad Hank were willing to do anything to go back to time to bring her back to life, and they needed the message from Scott’s head to assist them in finding the exact spot where she was lost.
Ant-Man was willing to risk his freedom to assist Hank and Hope find their mother, in order to remedy the problems he got them into initially in Ant-Man 1. He went back got his suit and assisted them in their mobile lab, till the ghost came around to distort the whole plan, she needed their time machine to stay alive and they needed it to get their mum back, it was exciting seeing the chase back and forth with all the bad guys who also needed this mobile lab, that could expand and reduce to a portable suitcase, nice concept and twist I must confess. It was good to see how it ended with all parties leaving happy.
Cast:Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Pena, Walton Goggins, Bobby Cannavale, Judy Greer, T.I, David Dastmalchain and Hannah John-Kamen
Genre: Action & Adventure, Comedy, Science, Fiction & Fantasy
Director: Peyton Reed
Ratings: PG 13 (for Comic Sci-Fri action violence)
Written by: Gabriel Ferrari, Andrew Barrer, Erik Sommers
Runtime: 118mins
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
To my verdict I would award Ant-Man and the Wasp an 8/10. They did have a very nice movie, from production, to crew, to cast and storyline also. It had a good blend of action, comedy and adventure. They did keep us all entertained and also expectant of the next Ant-Man to come. For the action and Marvel lovers this is a sure recommendation from me, I am certain that you would have a good laugh too.
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Linda Ochugbua
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