The last Marvel movie for 2018 and it had its work cut out given the monumental events from Infinity War. In short, Ant-Man 2 delivered. It was also the second part of my birthday double feature!
We return to the misadventures of Scott Lang who is currently under house arrest thanks to his involvement with Captain America in Civil War. I think he received a deal but the one part Scott won’t cooperate with the FBI on is the whereabouts of Dr. Pym and Hope Van Dyne. Well, beyond a burner cell phone to reach them, he doesn’t really have a clue.
Meanwhile, Pym and Hope have been researching the means to rescue the original Wasp, Janet Van Dyne, because Scott proved it was possible to survive and return from the subatomic realm (from the first movie). Their need for specialized high-tech equipment draws the interest of criminals and a mysterious adversary who has ghostlike abilities due to their quantum powers (means the villain is in unpredictable states from what I understand through my personal research on quantum computing). The cool part is the heroes go get assistance from Dr. Bill Foster played by a personal fave Laurence Fishburne! He gets to be in a good superhero movie for a change.
As expected there’s multiple sequences involving shrinking/enlarging while the heroes fight the villains, get chased and the supporting cast chips in to help Scott any way they can, hint, jokes involving “truth serum.” They managed to find some new size jokes too. The ants don’t help as much sadly. Being part of the MCU, stay put until the very end since the nagging question we all have throughout is, “When does this take place in regards to the Infinity War?”
Alamo Extras: Trailers for the movies Them, Phase IV, Empire of the Ants and Matinee (plus some scenes of the latter); scenes from the cartoon Inch High Private Eye; Trailer for Agent 00 (a midget super spy), old-timey cartoon of ants going to war; a home movie of Paul Rudd as a DJ at girl’s bat mitzvah; Rudd in an SNES commercial (his early days); an Adult Swim bit with Paul and a computer; re-cap of the first Ant-Man.