Ant Man

Ant Man

Rating 7.5 out of 10

While I am sure my comic book nerd brother inlaw knows all about the Ant-Man character and has read all the books I (like most of you) had never heard of him.  Even laughed a bit about a super hero that takes on the powers of an ant.  Crazy.  Also if compiling my list of male actors I would have never guessed to play a super hero Paul Rudd would be in my top ten along with Jack Black, Kevin James and the four guys on Big Bang Theory.    Turns out Rudd is not so pudgy now.  Worked out and pulled it off.  He does a good job.

Back in the 80's Dr. Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) invents the way to shrink the space between atoms thus making whatever he points his cool zapper toward becomes teeny tiny.  Amazingly enough instead of the people around him seeing all the wonderful things it can do they instead want to use it to weaponize and sell to the highest bidder.  Who woulda thought?  He puts them off for many years until after his retirement his young protege (Corey Stoll) puts together the missing pieces and figures it out himself.  Dr. Pym is now too old to put on the Ant suit so he recruits Scott Lang (Rudd) to shrink down and stop the protege from completing the suit and selling it to bad guys.

The action and effects are pretty good.  As I said Rudd does a good job.  Evangeline Lilly plays Dr Pym's helpful daughter (with the worst haircut since Bryce Dallas Howard in Jurassic World).  This is an entertaining movie.  It is definitely a notch or two below a more serious Avengers movie.  Hard to take it too serious when the big show down is on a toy train set.  Still when Ant-Man II comes out I'm sure my butt will be in the seats.