**THE CAWPINE OF 'ANT-MAN'**

WRITING: 6
ATMOSPHERE: 6
CHARACTERS: 6
PRODUCTION: 9
INTRIGUE: 5
NOVELTY: 5
ENJOYMENT: 6

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**The Good:**

Ant-Man begins like any other romantic comedy infused with a typical superhero film. It takes a while for the film to show its potential, but once it does, it turns pretty inventive and cool.

What makes Scott Lang such a likeable character is his grounded personality, similar to Tom Holland's Peter Parker. Lang is just a normal father and husband who's made the wrong choices in his life and needs a reboot. That's easy to connect with.

Paul Rudd is simultaneously an odd and brilliant choice to play a superhero. Considering the comical side of the film, he is the perfect fit to play an underdog character, but he also delves into his superhero persona convincingly.

Say what you will, but the visual effects used here are breathtaking. By combining practical effects and CGI, director Peyton Reed creates some of the most exciting action sequences within the MCU. By making Scott Lang small as an ant, everyday objects suddenly turn dangerous. The action sequences are all inventive thanks to the possibilities coming with the character.

The Quantum realm is the most beautiful thing ever.

The funniest and most memorable sequence is the one worth Scott breaking into the Avengers building. It features the Falcon in a cameo role and is one of the best sequences in any MCU film so far. It's a completely unnecessary sequence, but fun nonetheless.

Kirk Douglas is never bad and he is the single best actor in this film as well.

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**The Bad:**

Derren Cross is a mediocre villain with boring motive, even though Yellowjacket as a character is fairly cool. It doesn't help that he just kind of hangs around in the background before stepping into the spotlight in the finale.

In terms of its script and characters, Ant-Man almost feels like an early MCU film or even a Marvel legacy film. It’s not big and booming and doesn't try to reinvent the genre like so many other films within the franchise. It's almost boringly safe and predictable. As a comedy, it's not very funny, and as a superhero flick, it's disappointingly unoriginal.

As MCU's first heist movie, Ant-Mans has fairly little to offer that has not been done better by earlier heist movies.

Scott's sidekicks are annoying and don’t bring anything to the plot.

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**The Ugly:**

Gooified people look like strawberry jam.

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**CAWPINE RATING: 6.14 / 10 = 3 stars**