Movie Review-Ant-Man

Ant-Man may be my favorite of all the Marvel super hero movies yet. Comedic actor Paul Rudd (who always seems to play a smart-ass in his movies) makes the movie with his laid back attitude. And then there are his streetwise friends, T.I. Harris and Michael Pena. This by far is the coolest “super hero movie” ever.

In Ant-Man Rudd is a former convict who’ll do anything within his power to get right with his remarried ex-wife so he can have visitation rights to see his daughter. After failing at his attempt to get and keep a straight job he goes back to his old life of crime and, with a little bit of help from his old friends, finds himself in a bad situation with the long arm of the law.

However, not by coincidence, the house he breaks into is owned by inventor Dr. Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) and the inventor gives him a chance to make everything right if he’ll go through the rigorous training involved to become Ant-Man. As Ant-Man he has the chance to save the world from Dr. Pym’s evil protégé, who now runs the company Dr. Pym created invented and he’s prepared to sell the technology that creates Ant-Man to the highest bidder.

The action is great and the film has a real edgy sense of humor. After all, Ant-Man’s crew consists of a group of gangsters. The contrast with the intellectual Dr. Pym and the world of white collar criminals vs. Ant-Man’s “keeping it real” gang of hustlers is one of the biggest sources of humor. They kept me howling.

Ant-Man is rated “PG-13” and has a run time of 117 minutes, but you’ll want to invest a little extra time to sit through the credits for, not just one but, two bonus scenes that give you a little insight into the next Avengers movie. On My “Hollywood Popcorn Scale” Ant-Man is a JUMBO.

Hollywood Hernandez