Ant-man and the Wasp Review

What I liked: The cardboard fort. That was epic. I want one. I am going to spend the next 5 years amassing cardboard so I can build a scale model. And I have to say this is a much better solution to house arrest than what the kid in Disturbia came up with. I also really liked the truth serum, the juke box, the luggage handle, and the tardigrades. Fun fact: tardigrades can survive the vacuum of space, intense radiation, and being freeze dried. Maybe we should have a tardigrade man in a future ant-man installment, he would be even tinier and pretty much indestructible. The arrow bugs were also fun, they made me think of a video game, which is fun, but it doesn't seem like objectively the best plan. I'm willing to bet they wreak havoc with your windshield. What was better than the arrow bugs was the car chase scenes. Chase scenes in most movies vary speed and direction of the cars with the added variable of size the chase scenes got a lot more exciting. Now if they would just install rocket launchers it would be truly glorious. I hope that Bond is taking notes for Q. I liked Ant-man's coworkers and their stories. They were pretty funny. Finally I liked that the bad guys were pretty normal and wanted normal person things like to be super rich or not slide through walls.

What I didn't: I think Ant-man said it well "do you guys just add quantum to everything?" Pretty much that's not how quantum works, or conservation of mass or energy or anything. But it is still pretty cool and funny. I am confused why if you are tiny and a building is tiny you can't go hang out in the tiny building, It seems like as long as you are the right size it should work. Also I am very unclear on Ghost's plan and why they thought it would work. I'm very glad that they didn't spend more time saying quantum but I will say I'm under the impression that extracting huge amounts of radiation and flooding things with it is usually bad. I am also curious why no one in the whole city is good at doing their jobs. It is entertaining but I wonder what the odds are of randomly assorting all the incompetent people into the same place. Or is there a larger conspiracy that let the competent people banish the incompetent people? Finally, I really wish it had ended in a dinner, I mean Schwarma was a great hit before.

Who should watch this? People looking for a fun bouncy superhero movie. If you want to completely forget that Infinity War happened, skip the after credits scenes.

Would I watch it again? Yeah, it was really fun.

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