"Ant-Man"

Vince and I watched "Ant-Man" on Saturday. I didn't have any high expectations for it like I did with "Guardians of The Galaxy" and it turned out to be a surprisingly funny movie, though understandably cliched. The best part is that despite original director Edgar Wright not overseeing this movie til the end, he still got top credits for it. This was his pet project way before the Marvel Cinematic Universe came into play and it was nice to see that his influence was still there.

Paul Rudd is the latest in a line of actors cast in a Marvel movie that seemed like an odd choice at first (right up there with Batista as Drax). At the end, I don't think I can picture anyone else as Scott Lang. Micheal Douglas as Hank Pym was great. Evangeline Lilly as Hope was a bit hard to get past in the first half of the movie because she was either really pissy or really sad. And Corey Stall as Darren Cross/Jellow Jacket was decent but like other Marvel villains, he's just there to be an antagonist. The one who really stole the show was Micheal Pena as Luis. I thought he was overdoing it with the whole Mexican stereotype. He was HILARIOUS when he tried to tell a a story.

The special effects looked really, REALLY good. Hands down, the best scene was seeing a young Micheal Douglas in the prologue. Vince and I were shocked because they did a great job making him look 20+ year younger, and it was a big improvement from how Young Flynn looked in "TRON: Legacy". This movie was really made for 3D but it doesn't hinder the experience if you opted out of it.

The end credits provided 2 very important scenes; Hope will don her mother's suit to become The Wasp. The other scene showed Falcon, Steve Rogers, and Bucky, who appeared to be restrained. Falcon and Rogers talked about how Stark shouldn't know about Bucky and Falcon said he knows a guy, meaning Ant-Man will return in the upcoming "Captain America: Civil War" movie next year.