Ant-man and the Wasp (2018)

Scott Lang is grappling with the consequences of his choices as both a superhero and a father. Approached by Hope van Dyne and Dr. Hank Pym, Lang must once again don the Ant-Man suit and fight alongside the Wasp. The urgent mission soon leads to secret revelations from the past as the dynamic duo finds itself in an epic battle against a powerful new enemy.-WWW

Director: Peyton Reed

Based on: > Ant-Man; by: Stan Lee; Larry Lieber; Jack Kirby;

Music composed by: Christophe Beck

Writers: Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Paul Rudd,

Andrew Barrer, and Gabriel Ferrari


The first time I watched this doesn't count.  Why?  It's because I was ill last Saturday then had a very fruitful morning and early afternoon, but I got so tired that I snoozed most of the time me and my family were at the Premier Cinema, Mall of Asia.  It was supposed to be something the whole family could enjoy together, but three of us slept, and only three of were able to enjoy it. Honestly, I was only awake for a total of fifteen minutes.

Thankfully my Bestie wanted to see it after doing important stuff so I made sure I wouldn't sleep.

After the movie, the mid credits feature, and the after credits enigma 😜, Bestie wondered if her hands could heal, how come Janet became much, much older than how Michelle Pfeiffer looks today? Well, not in those words.  Maybe, just maybe it's because she had to...

Anyways, since I cannot judge this technically or anything else, I'll just say what I felt about this movie.

I really enjoyed watching the movie.  I love the lines, most especially Luis' lines.  I was laughing all the way.

I love the fact that Cassie and Scott have a good father and daughter relationship even if Cassie's mother, Maggie(Judy Greer), is now married to Police Officer Jim Paxton(Bobby Cannavale), a nice guy who loves Cassie like his own.

I love the choice of actors.

Some cast members as copy pasted from Wikipedia:

• Paul Rudd as Scott Lang / Ant-Man: A former petty criminal who acquired a suit that allows him to shrink or grow in scale while also increasing in strength.Following the events of Captain America: Civil War, in which Lang escapes from the Raft prison, director Peyton Reed said that "he's a fugitive in most of the first Ant-Man movie. He's just a bigger fugitive now." Rudd was interested in Lang being a regular person rather than "innately heroic or super", and to be driven by his desire to be a responsible parent. Evangeline Lilly as Hope van Dyne / Wasp:  The daughter of Hank Pym and Janet van Dyne, who is handed down a similar suit and the Wasp mantle from her mother. The writers were excited to properly introduce the character as the Wasp, showing her "power set, how she fights, and what are the injustices that matter to her".  Lilly felt the character has "incredible satisfaction" in becoming the Wasp, "something that she has been waiting for her whole life, which is essentially an affirmation from her father"^] Her relationship with Lang is more complicated than in the first film, and includes anger towards his actions during Civil War. Madeleine McGraw portrays a young Hope van Dyne.
• Michael Peña as Luis: Lang's former cellmate and a member of his X-Con Security crew. (He's the funniest...Wikipedia contributor said he didn't have much opportunities to improvise, but I think he still exceeded our expectations.)
• Hannah John-Kamen as Ava Starr / Ghost: A woman with molecular instability, who can phase through objects; she is only considered a "villain" because her attempts at survival clash with the heroes' goals. The character is traditionally portrayed as male in the comics, but the creative team believed that the character's gender was irrelevant to its portrayal, and felt casting a woman would be more interesting.^[14] John-Kamen enjoyed this "blank-slate" aspect, allowing her to mold the character as her own. Producer Stephen Broussard said that they wanted to cast a lesser-known actress to help maintain the mystery of the character, and John-Kamen "blew us away". RaeLynn Bratten portrays a young Ava Starr.
• Abby Ryder Fortson as Cassie: The daughter of Lang and Maggie.
• Randall Park as Jimmy Woo: An FBI agent and Lang's parole officer.
• Michelle Pfeiffer as Janet van Dyne: The original Wasp who is lost in the quantum realm. She is Pym's wife and Hope's mother. Pfeiffer had been Reed's dream casting for the role since he was working on the first film, and ensured that he got her input on what the role should be. He noted that the character has spent 30 years in the quantum realm, so there is a question regarding how that has affected her. The decision to have the character age over those 30 years even though time works differently in the quantum realm was made to avoid any "sci-fi weirdness" that could take away from the emotional reunions with Pym and Hope in the film. Hayley Lovitt stands in for a young Janet van Dyne, reprising her role from the first film; she had been cast for the first film, before Pfeiffer's involvement, due to her "saucer-like, Michelle Pfeiffer eyes" according to Reed.
• Laurence Fishburne as Bill Foster: An old friend of Pym who was once his assistant on Project Goliath. Fishburne had approached Marvel about joining the MCU, pitching them a few ideas for whom he could portray, before Marvel offered him the role of Foster in the film. Despite having already portrayed Perry White for the DC Extended Universe, Fishburne admitted that he had always fantasized about being in an MCU film, admitting that he considered himself a "Marvel guy". Reed likened the rivalry between Foster and Pym to that of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, and wanted an actor who can go "toe-to-toe" with Michael Douglas. Langston Fishburne, Laurence's son, stands in for a young Bill Foster.
• Michael Douglas as Hank Pym:  A former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, entomologist, and physicist who became the original Ant-Man after discovering the subatomic particles that make the transformation possible. Pym has grown a lot closer to his daughter Hope since the first film, and according to producer Kevin Feige he has "that joy of fatherhood" in watching her become a superhero in her own right. Douglas was attracted to the "morally dubious" decision Pym makes regarding finding his wife Janet. Dax Griffin stands in for a young Hank Pym, having done so for the first film as well.  (Watching this movie reminded me of THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO, starring him and Karl Malden.)

All in all, it was a fun experience.

That's all I have to say.

Thanks for your time.  :-)