After years and years of movies about costumed superheroes fighting random bad guys in attempts to save the entire world (if not the whole universe) from destruction and death, often resulting in films that end with twenty-plus minutes of CG-enhanced mayhem, whole buildings being destroyed, entire cities reduced to rubble and ash, often at the hands of some giant energy beam, Marvel has finally made a movie with smaller stakes, a more emotional story, and more relatable characters and situations, and quite frankly, it is one of their best movies. No one was expecting “Ant-Man” to be the answer to the question we all wanted to ask, and yet here it is, intimate, fun, energetic and delightful, a wonderful movie that is a pleasure to watch.

“Ant-Man” centers on Scott Lang (Paul Rudd), who starts the movie fresh out of prison. He just finished a stretch for stealing millions of dollars from some corporation and Robin Hood style returning that money to The People, and now that he’s out, he wants to be a proper father to his little daughter Cassie, which is hard to do when people won’t give him a job or rent him a place to live due to his status as an ex-con. The only way he has any shot of making any money is by meeting up with some friends from prison who have a tip on a job that would require Scott’s cat-burglar skills. Unbeknownst to all of them, this job leads directly to Scott meeting a scientist with a secret piece of technology that would change the way the world sees matter itself.Continue Reading …