Ant-Man Review: The Shrink Game Is Scott Lang

About a year ago when the movie was announced, I was like “Why do I need to see an Ant-Man movie though?” I’ve been following the comic book series, which is pure 100% raw Vibranium, and I like the characters as well as what I was seeing from commercials for the movie, but I wasn’t trying to get my hopes up when I went to see it. I saw it after opening day, and I gotta say… that shit was fun. I actually love seeing obscure/non-household names shine in panels when it has a good writer, but I was so worried it wouldn’t be the case on film. I’m happy I was wrong. Ant-Man is a very different movie from anything else Marvel is giving us. We’re not seeing a large, wide-scale event of the world in danger — instead it’s scaled down to the exact discovery that would be become a global-scale catastrophe. Michael Douglass was a fucking glorious Hank Pym. We get a brief synopsis of his Pym Particles invention that’s able to shrink a person or objects down to incredibly small size. The problem is what happens when you put that technology in the wrong hands, especially those wanting to mass produce that technology as an army perfect for stealth, espionage, and sabotage. Pym’s protege Darren Cross (Corey Stoll) has been obsessed with replicating the Pym Particle and is extremely close to perfecting it and using it to make profit from the military (dick move, entirely). Pym’s daughter Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lily) is still working for the company close to Darren, but trying to help h…