Ant-Man and The Wasp Review : One of the Lows of MCU Phase 3

It was a light, fun entrance in MCU that was good, especially after we had been served with the momentous Avengers: Infinity War. The first Ant-Man movie is one of my top 10 MCU movies and Scott Lang's addition in the MCU was very well accepted by the fans as he was just a nice and decent guy who just want to did his best for his daughter. Comparing Scott to other big names of MCU like Tony Stark or Steve Rogers; a genius billionaire playboy and a stoic ripped super old war veteran, those are characters too big to be relatable to audience; the everyday's people and this is what makes Scott Lang stands out against them in this regards - relatibility.

Ant-Man and The Wasp delivered as well as the first movie. In this one, relationship between Scott and Hope and the Scott-Pym-Hope dynamic were explored further, with the introduction of new characters; Janet van Dyne and the Ghost, Ava. The main plot is basically to rescue Janet from the Quantum Realm as they are against the time while ensuring Scott is not busted for breaking his house arrest. An interesting and brilliant thing though is how an element of Ant-Man 2 story would be crucial and should weave nicely for Avengers: Endgame. 

Still, the first Ant-Man is overall a better movie than this one. There were some issues, like there were just too many characters in this one and you can remove some of them without severely impacting the main plot. As this is a sequel movie, as it is an Ant-Man film; a light family comedy movie with no world-crossings or huge battles at the end, Marvel still tried to give it a feel of a sequel by pumping up the number of additional characters in the movie. To be honest, that plan didn't really worked well as the additional casts mostly serve as comedic props and they only made the movie messier and clunkier, especially for the third act. So, Ant-Man 2 fell for the sequel syndrome trap.

The jokes given in this movie were less authentic like in the first movie and they feels forced and slapstic. At certain times, you wish for the additional casts to just drop it off. Michael Pena's Luis who was loved by the fans was not as good as he was in the first movie. T.I and David Dastmalchian's characters were not really helping and there would be no difference whether they're in this movie or not.

Ant-Man and The Wasp might be one of the lowest entries in MCU Phase 3. Still, it was hilarious and I had a good time, and I definitely enjoyed it more than Deadpool 2.

7/10