Ant-Man
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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, Doctor 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.
What critics thought
Ant-Man landed well with general audiences but split critics more sharply than its fresh rating suggests — the core argument being whether its deliberately modest, heist-movie scale is a refreshing corrective to Marvel bloat or just a sign of creative haste. Paul Rudd's charm and the film's off-center humor won many over, but detractors found it a tonally uneven, cliché-riddled origins story that never fully recovers from its troubled production.
“Playful in unexpected ways and graced with a genuinely off-center sense of humor, Ant-Man (engagingly directed by Peyton Reed) is light on its feet the way the standard-issue Marvel behemoths never are.”
Kenneth Turan·Los Angeles Times
“a bracing, giddy delight.... [a neoclassical comedy] more closely related to Alfred Hitchcock's [To Catch a Thief] and to hectically skimpy B-movies than to the other members of the Marvel family.”
Richard Brody·The New Yorker
“This film is a passable piece of drone work from the ever-expanding Marvel-Disney colony.”
A. O. Scott·The New York Times
“Ant-Man is a cut-and-shut muddle, haunted by [Edgar Wright's] ghost, produced by a high-end hot dog factory, by turns giddying and stupefying.”
Catherine Shoard·The Guardian
“a lightweight, cliché-riddled origins story that veers between inside-joke comedy, ponderous redemption story lines and admittedly nifty CGI sequences that still seem relatively insignificant compared to the high stakes and city-shattering destruction that take place in most of the Avengers movies.”
Richard Roeper·Chicago Sun-Times
Genres
Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Cast & Crew
Peyton ReedDirector
Paul RuddScott Lang / Ant-Man
Michael DouglasDr. Hank Pym
Evangeline LillyHope van Dyne
Corey StollDarren Cross / Yellowjacket
Bobby CannavalePaxton
Anthony MackieSam Wilson / Falcon
Judy GreerMaggie Lang
Abby Ryder FortsonCassie Lang
Michael PeñaLuis
David DastmalchianKurt
T.I.Dave
Wood HarrisGale
Christophe BeckComposer
Edgar WrightWriter
Joe CornishWriter
Adam McKayWriterPaul RuddWriter
Russell CarpenterCinematographyFrom the studio
Ant-Man
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, Doctor 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.
What critics thought
Ant-Man landed well with general audiences but split critics more sharply than its fresh rating suggests — the core argument being whether its deliberately modest, heist-movie scale is a refreshing corrective to Marvel bloat or just a sign of creative haste. Paul Rudd's charm and the film's off-center humor won many over, but detractors found it a tonally uneven, cliché-riddled origins story that never fully recovers from its troubled production.
“Playful in unexpected ways and graced with a genuinely off-center sense of humor, Ant-Man (engagingly directed by Peyton Reed) is light on its feet the way the standard-issue Marvel behemoths never are.”
Kenneth Turan·Los Angeles Times
“a bracing, giddy delight.... [a neoclassical comedy] more closely related to Alfred Hitchcock's [To Catch a Thief] and to hectically skimpy B-movies than to the other members of the Marvel family.”
Richard Brody·The New Yorker
“This film is a passable piece of drone work from the ever-expanding Marvel-Disney colony.”
A. O. Scott·The New York Times
“Ant-Man is a cut-and-shut muddle, haunted by [Edgar Wright's] ghost, produced by a high-end hot dog factory, by turns giddying and stupefying.”
Catherine Shoard·The Guardian
“a lightweight, cliché-riddled origins story that veers between inside-joke comedy, ponderous redemption story lines and admittedly nifty CGI sequences that still seem relatively insignificant compared to the high stakes and city-shattering destruction that take place in most of the Avengers movies.”
Richard Roeper·Chicago Sun-Times
Genres
Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Cast & Crew
Peyton ReedDirectorPaul RuddScott Lang / Ant-ManMichael DouglasDr. Hank PymEvangeline LillyHope van DyneCorey StollDarren Cross / YellowjacketBobby CannavalePaxtonAnthony MackieSam Wilson / FalconJudy GreerMaggie LangAbby Ryder FortsonCassie LangMichael PeñaLuisDavid DastmalchianKurtT.I.DaveWood HarrisGaleChristophe BeckComposerEdgar WrightWriterJoe CornishWriterAdam McKayWriterPaul RuddWriterRussell CarpenterCinematographyFrom the studio
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