Showing posts with label Paul Rudd. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paul Rudd. Show all posts

Sunday, August 09, 2015

Movie Review: "Ant-Man" (2015)


A Bug's Life.

Charming, cheeky, and just a little unheroic, the always-charismatic Paul Rudd metamorphoses from ex-con Scott Lang into the titular character in Marvel's better offering of the summer (sorry, Avengers: Age of Ultron).  Bigger isn't always better, and Ant-Man recaptures a good bit of the zany, lighthearted fun that seemed so often lacking in its more overstuffed, ponderous cinematic sibling.  Ant-Man, by the way, takes place after the events of Age of Ultron, but - thank goodness - you really don't have to have seen it in order for Ant-Man to make sense; Rudd's minuscule alter ego's story can stand alone and not be completely overwhelmed with Marvel mythology and bogged down with Significance.  Lang/Ant-Man is like Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream: though he be but little, he is fierce!  And funny to boot.