Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)

Lately I pretty much skipped Marvel movies. Too many and not much of a new subject + I also didn't have much time and wasn't really in the mood to go to cinema. That's why I have to admit that I was at least partially subjective when I chose "Ant-Man and the Wasp" = I like both Evangeline Lilly & Hannah John-Kamen ... which did matter enough apparently to convince me.

I don't remember much of the first "Ant-Man", besides being rather shallow. The one we have here continues that, adding a bunch of references also to the intermediary piece in the last Avengers that I didn't see. But in which all the people involved in developing/using the ant costume got on the "wanted" list of the police. Getting over that, in brief, the idea here would be to reach somehow in the sub-quantic universe to the missing wife of Hank Pym (Michael Douglas = the brain behind the suit), who apparently somehow survived for 30 years there, after which she finally managed sending messages to our world. And like that, we're getting to the part where we need "a missing piece" to help completing the mechanism for getting to the other dimension. Which "missing piece" (+ extra) is also wanted by a black market dealer. Pretty much after the same thing is also "the villain" - Ghost - a girl trapped in an explosion long ago, who was left since then in a continuous phasing besides the "invisible women" power, which allows her to pass through objects... only problem: not really good for health.

Leaving subjectivity regarding the female cast aside, what I've watched here was really an enjoyable experience compared to other Marvel movies. We don't really have a masterpiece, but it's clearly better than the first "Ant-Man". The movie feels somewhere between "Thor Ragnarok" and "Guardians of the Galaxy" = light and without attempting to be too serious. I actually believe it's the perfect example for the theory saying that the necessary ingredient for a super-hero movie is to lack the super-hero :) ... ( what we have here in the end is more like a super-suit, lots of tech and a bunch of people trying to make stuff work :) ).

Rating: 3.5 out of 5