Ant-Man and the Wasp: The Best of Marvel: Why is Ant-Man so Underrated?

Marvel's first film with a woman in the title: "Ant-Man and the Wasp" is it worthy of its importance in the world of comics?

Berlin | He's not the most successful but most funny hero of the Marvel Universe. Now comes the second use of the ant man: On July 26, "Ant-Man and the Wasp" begins in the cinema? How good is it?

What is "Ant-Man 2"?

At the end of his first adventure, Scott Lang aka Ant-Man survived a reduction in subatomic size. The fact that the superhero with the straw has returned intact from the "Quantum Kingdom", has also raised hopes for Hank Pym and his daughter Hope van Dyne – decades ago in the micro world had lost his wife or mother. Is Janet van Dyne still alive? Hope slips into Wasp's suit and dares the rescue mission with Ant-Man. The stumbling block: the sinister black market merchants and a super villain named Ghost stole Pym's reduction technology and his lab – a skyscraper that can be condensed to the size of a suitcase to wheels. (Hotel Artémis, Mamma Mia, Sicario 2: What summer film launches are worth their money?)

500 million bankruptcy: "Ant-Man" only at rank 16

At the box office was the first "Ant" Man "movie (2015) a disappointment – despite a box office profit of half a billion dollars.In the list of 19 gigantic Marvel films, even that is enough for the 16th place. Financial ranking however does not correspond to the aesthetics of a movie, which counts for the charming ones in its rank.That's all the more gratifying, that Marvel returns the hero played by Paul Rudd in the race and only does not even replace director Peyton Reed

The smallest will be the greatest

Once again, the film explores the possibilities of a world where the proportions are unreliable: car chases to trucks going through scooters to salt shakers that become a weapon is.The fact that this time Ant-Man is wearing an immature prototype of his combat suit adds to the story of a pattern that is actually in every sci-fi adventure – failure: sometimes Scott Lang grows by accident so loud that he does not want to do anything. he is stuck in the broom closet; Sometimes he gets stuck in the waist body of a Kita child.

Luis Hui, Quantum Realm pfui

The ingenuity of "Ant-Man and Wasp" is by no means limited to the central theme. In the opening sequence, Scott Lang constructs tunnels and laser-safe gorges from his heroic existence as a cardboard parade – and creates a world parallel to the craft like a film by Michel Gondry. And when Scott's boyfriend, Luis, lacks Truth-Drugs, there is an increase in the big talk sequence of the first part: Luis' Infinite Sermon is illustrated with scenes in which all the characters speak with his excited voice. A little more esoteric, however, is the visualization of the "Quantum Kingdom": Optically, the microscopic world is a psychedelic bubbling, whose wasp mother (Michelle Pfeiffer with the white mane of a herbalist) at will in the Marko's world intervenes. Logical Problems of the Level – How does Janet van Dyne orientate / feed herself at the atomic level? Why does not she become insane? – Is the film flagrant? (New Marvel Hero: Jared Leto – From Joker to Morbius)

The Wasp – The First Marvel Woman in the Movie Title

The twentieth film Marvel Universe is also the first to present a heroine in the title. (The "Wonder Woman" blockbuster is known to be from the DC world in competition.) Given the gender debate in Hollywood, this means a late commitment that suits Peyton Reed well. And not just by adding more mechanical female figures. After all, "Ocean's 8" has just proved that even a dozen first-clbad actresses do not guarantee a fresh look at the models. "Ant-Man" is a lot smarter, also because it portrays not only women, but also men: Hank Pym is shown as an elbow of the old school, without the aggressive behavior of who these are the bad guys who now want leather would not exist. Ant-Man himself is celebrated as the best granny in the world, flirting cheerfully and in a proverbial body exchange gag to the woman. The most masculine thing about this superhero is to take care of his child. If articulated well, it may look like gender issues, which nachhehechelt the zeitgeist. In fact, the movie is really very, very funny.

"Ant and the Wasp". United States 2018. R: Peyton Reed. D: Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Douglas, Michelle Pfeiffer, Hannah John-Kamen, Lawrence Fishburne. 118 minutes. Beginning of the film: 26. July 2018.