Movie Review: ****Ant-man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)

 There are a whole cast of characters.  The movie starts after Janet Van Dyne has been rescued from the  Quantumverse.  Cassie Lang has developed a love for science and has created a way to communicate with the Quantumverse.  Her message is sent, which upsets Janet Van Dyne who shuts it off, but too late.  Someone has heard their mesage and sucks the five into the Quantumverse.  Here mother Van Dyne must face her past.  Worse than facing her past, she must face Kang the Conqueror.  She at first helped him, then realized his goal was to destroy time lines and universes.  She sabotaged his project.  He now wants it restored to give himself ultimate power and captures Cassie and uses her as leverage to get Ant Man to help fix his device.  This is done and now he turns very rageful.  Only through Antman's many intelligent ant can everything be put right.  But is it?  Future Antman movies will let us know

Paul Rudd as Scott Lang/ Ant Man

Evangeline Lilly as Hope Van Dyne or the Wasp

Michael Douglas as Dr. Hand Pym

Michelle Pfeiffer as Janet Van Dyne

Kathryn Newton as Cassie Lang

Jonathan Majors as Kang the Conqueror

Movie Review: ***^Ant Man and the Wasp (2018)

The Ant and the Wasp (2018)  Except for the graphics representing the sub atomic world, (looks like a Doctor Who promotion) this movie is very good.  There is lots of play with tiny vehicles, which look like match box toys but blow up very large.  Ant Man is portrayed by Paul Rudd.  His non-ant character is under house arrest for using his powers without authorization.  During much of the movie and ant takes over his life, sleeping, playing the drum, taking baths etc.  The wasp is portrayed by Evangeline Lilly.  She and her father (Michael Douglas) are trying to rescue their mother (Michelle Pfeiffer) who has been in the subatomic world for many years.  There is cute play on staying out of jail while actually using superpowers to complete the rescue.  In addition there are two groups of people trying to get the equipment from them.  A group of thugs and a couple people, Dr. Bill Foster (Laurence Fishburne) and Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), hoping the equipment will help restore Ghost from a half-life due to contact with sub-atomic particles.  This movie makes for a very exciting ride. 

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Movie Review: ****The Ant-Man (2015)

Movie: The Ant Man

This is a fun movie.  I seem to love all the Marvel Comic movies.  Marvel Comics seems to always hit home runs with their movies, and this is in the same.  Scot (Paul Rudd) is a cat burglar.  He has recently been released from prison and wants to go straight to regain visitation with his daughter.   But he needs a job and money for an apartment.  Baskin Robbins lets him go when his past becomes known.  He finally takes a burglary job, and finds the only thing in the vault is a suit of some kind.  He tries it on, and discovers the suit makes him small.    He later finds out that he was permitted to steal the suit as he was actually being recruited by the suit’s creator Dr. Pym (Michael Douglas).   Dr. Pym needs help to thwart the efforts of his former assistant who forced him out of the company, Darren Cross/Yellow Jacket (Corey Stoll).  Helping Dr. Pym is his daughter, Hope (Evangeline Lilly) who is the inside person as she makes it look like she has abandoned her father for Cross.  Also helping the Ant Man are the ants, of several different varieties. 

Great action, and clever script.  Ant Man vs Yellow Jacket is a great series of confrontations.  Ant Man’s daughter gets involved by the Yellow Jacket and he has to save her. 

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