![]() ![]() None of the leads have much heavy lifting either. Goggins and Park act obviously to the joke. Michael Peña excels with similar treatment he’s always played for obvious laughs and Peña plays through, fully, successfully embracing it. Randall Park plays a goofy FBI agent who Rudd keeps on one-upping and it’s even broader. Walton Goggins is one of the villains and he’s basically doing a really broad caricature of Walton Goggins being in a Marvel movie as a Southern tech-gangster. ![]() His thing is humor and pacing and the film excels at both of them.īecause, even with those five writers–including Rudd–it’s not like there’s much depth to characterizations. But if the film never acknowledges it’s a theme, is it really a theme? The screenplay (by five screenwriters) never worries about it and director Reed really doesn’t narrative echoes. There’s this omnipresent theme about parents disappointing children–Douglas and Lilly, Rudd and his daughter (Abby Ryder Fortson), not to mention the villain (Hannah John-Kamen), who’s got her own father issues. There’s a lot of quantum things in Ant-Man and the Wasp, it’s hard to keep track.īut the film isn’t about dramatic possibilities so much as good-natured, comedic special effects action ones. Even when there’s all the danger in the world, as Rudd, Lilly, and Douglas race against time to save Lilly’s mother (and Douglas’s wife), Michelle Pfeiffer, from being trapped in the Quantum Zone. Nothing ever gets as emotionally intense as the first act, in flashback (either straight flashback or dream sequence). It’s got a lot of humorous qualities and a lot of charming ones, but not dramatic. There are a few of those scenes and they really define the film’s dramatic qualities. During the scene maybe, with Rudd laughing about what a dick Douglas has always been, someone getting very upset remembering how Douglas treated them, Douglas looking bemused, and Lilly looking vacant. She’s entirely in support of dad Michael Douglas even after it’s clear Douglas–in the past–was an egomaniac who hurt lots of people, it’s not like Lilly has any reaction to it. The film gives her her own action scenes–some truly phenomenal ones–but very little agency. Despite being in the first scene in the movie and sharing most of Paul Rudd’s scenes with him, Evangeline Lilly is definitely second in Ant-Man and the Wasp. ![]()
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