Ant-Man and the Wasp Film Review

Finished watching Ant-Man and the Wasp, directed by Peyton Reed and starring Michael Douglas, Michelle Pfeiffer, Paul Rudd, Abby Ryder Fortson, Michael Peña, Evangeline Lilly, Hannah John-Kamen and Walton Goggins. The film opens with Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) on hisfinal mission as Ant-Man with his wife Janet (Michelle Pfeiffer) as she finds herself becoming trapped with the Quantum Realm while stoping a nuclear missile. Back in the present the current Ant-Man, Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) is under house arrest due to his involvement within Civil War where he allied with Captain America, this however hasn't stopped him in trying to be a good father to his daughter Cassie (Abby Ryder Fortson), along with helping his Luis (Michael Peña) and his friends with their X-Con security company. One day Scott has a dream where he reliving a memory of Janet's and after calling Hank and Hope (Evangeline Lilly) about what happen, Hope who has now taking up the mantle of the Wasp, takes Scott to the lab where she along with her dad have been trying to build a machine that will allowing to travel to the Quantum Realm and with the information of Scott's dream now have the hope that Janet is still alive. Overall this was an amazing film as it revisits this corner of the Marvel Cinematic Universe by telling a very character focus story with the theme of family being very prominent throughout as the relationships between Scott and his daughter Cassie along with Hope's relationship with her parents Hank and Janet help to give each character their motivations for the film while also delivering on the some great emotional moments between the characters. The use of Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen) as the main antagonist of the film is great as it not only allows for some great action set pieces with how her powers are used within the film but just like the last handful of villains within the Marvel Cinematic Universe she is giving enough of a back story and motive that help to make her extremely sympathetic with only the way that she excites her plan being the think that makes her a villain. The comedy throughout the film is amazingly on point as from some of the everyday situations that characters find themselves especially with Scott and his home life to the inclusion of Luis and the rest of Scott's friends who once again steal the show and bring some of the best comedic moments especially with their interactions with secondary villain Sunny Burch (Walton Goggins) and his henchmen. The film also does a great job within the creation of its action set pieces as the fight scenes are excited extremely well from the fight scenes that makes great use of each characters powers and abilities to the amazing chase sequence that uses the shrinking technology within some of the cars along with the San Francisco setting the film makes use of the city's very hilly landscape to great effect. 9/10.