Size Doesn’t Matter-Marvel’s Ant-Man-Review Plus Free Activity Pages

July 20, 2015 Leave a comment

Fun, heartwarming, comedy at its very best – it’s the movie with a heart of gold. Not exactly the adjectives that first come to mind when you think of Marvel, but that’s exactly what the newest addition to the franchise is.

Ant-Man brings all the ingredients you’d come to expect in the Avenger series and then some. Everyone knows I am a Marvel girl but this is the first time that not only did I get my Marvel fix but I left feeling good all over. With the heart and the soul of the best of family movies, and enough action and laughs to satisfy even the biggest of Marvel fans, Ant-Man truly has something for everyone from start to finish and by finish we mean stay until the very, very, very last credit rolls.

Paul Rudd plays Scott Lang, a crook/ex-con/electrical electrical with a conscience who is trying to change his life after being released from prison to be a better father to his daughter, Cassie. Enter Michael Douglas as Hank Pym and Evangeline Lilly as Hope, Pym’s estranged daughter, and you’d have the basis of a great movie right there but luckily for us, they didn’t stop there.

Add to the mix the band of thieves, think Ocean’s 11, also referred to as “the wombats” played to comedic timing perfection by David Dastmalchian as Kurt, who is the team’s hacker, Michael Peña as Luis, Scott’s former cell mate (who was sent to jail for stealing two slushie machines), and lastly Dave, played by rapper T.I., who is the “wheel man,” a.k.a. the getaway driver, and the deliciously evil Darren Cross evil industrialist in the vein of Sam Rockwell’s Justin Hammer in Iron Man 2 and you have everything you need for the perfect summer escape from reality.

Ant-Man is truly the next evolution of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It brings a founding member of The Avengers to the big screen for the first time . Armed with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, master thief Scott Lang must embrace his inner-hero and help his mentor, Dr. Hank Pym, protect the secret behind his spectacular Ant-Man suit from a new generation of towering threats. Against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, Pym and Lang must plan and pull off a heist that will save the world.

The size changing effects are some of the most incredible and surprising uses of CGI you’ve ever seen and the scenes with Scott Lang and his ant army are astonishing. And check out what they did to Michael Douglas in the opening section of the film through some of the most incredible computer image manipulation ever. Plus we get an extended cameo from an Avenger and the most incredible post credit scenes ever in a Marvel film one of which will have many of Marvel’s female fans cheering.

Will the world be saved? And how many of the Easter Eggs were you able to spot – did you find all 12? Can something so small be big enough to save the world? Go see Ant-Man and find out for yourself.