Udaman
07-09-2018, 04:47 PM
Saw it over the weekend. It was fun. I laughed a few times. It was enjoyable. I would put it in the top half of all Superhero movies made over the last 20 years...better than most DC movies.
And yet....after it ended, I found myself struck by one simple question - what was the point of this movie? I mean it basically is entirely pointless. And the plot? Let's see. Apparently in the first AntMan when Paul Rudd's character did something that you're supposed to come back from (but he did), and he became subatomic, somehow the mom of The Wasp (and husband of M. Douglass) realized that he was there, even though it's infinitely large in there and he was nowhere near where she disappeared, and somehow left a mark on him so that....flash forward 2 years later, M. Douglass and The Wasp are building some kind of quantum field device and they turn it on, but still need just one part, and when it's on M. Pfeiffer again contacts Paul Rudd (how? I have no idea), and so now they know she's alive and then spend the rest of the movie trying to go back in and find her...and the way they know where she is, is because they turn on the quantum device again and she somehow inhabits Paul Rudd's body (how? I have no idea) and tells them exactly where she is, and that they have just 2 hours to find her or everything will change and it will be 100 years before they can find her again (why? I have no idea), and so M. Douglass goes in and finds her.
And in the meantime...there are some bad guys. Who? Well, one of them is the person selling them the parts to the Quantum device. How does he get those parts? No idea. Suddenly, when they are buying the last part, he reveals that he found out they aren't who they said they are, but are actually The Wasp and M. Douglass, and no he wants....I'm not sure what he wants. But they say no, and so he's after them the rest of them movie. And then a person shows up. A woman. We find out that when she was a kid her dad was doing something with quantum stuff and it blew up and killed him and his wife, but didn't kill her (why? I have no idea), and now she moves in and out of a permanent state (why? I have no idea), and she can't be picked up. And she can't hold a teddy bear. Except sometimes she can, and she can clearly put on clothes, and they stay on her even when she's phasing in and out, and now she wears a white suit which helps her somehow (how? I have no idea), and her protector is a guy who used to work with M. Douglass, but doesn't anymore because they...well, got into a fight. And he's protecting this person, and now, suddenly she only has a few weeks to live (why? I have no idea) and she needs to get the energy from M. Pfeiffer, who they know is alive (how? I have no idea) and it might kill M. Pfeiffer, but they don't care. And in the end M. Pfeiffer comes out and touches her, and she's much better, but not entirely cured (how? I HAVE NO IDEA!!!!!)
And the characters from the first AntMan (his fellow thieves)? They are in the movie for no other reason that to be funny. They have no part to the movie at all, other than that. Same with the new husband of AntMan's ex wife. Same with the FBI detective, who is convinced that AntMan is about to break his 2 year house arrest, which he got for going to fight against IronMan, which was the only part of this movie that made sense.
And...oh by the way, they can shrink cars to small sizes, and everything in it (which is inherently stupid because if at any time any of the bigger cars had run over them, they would have been killed instantly). And can shrink a building, with everything in it....which is a cool idea and effect, but entirely implausible (on just about every level) and inherently dangerous, and apparently when you are in the small building, the rules of outside nature mean nothing to you because there a scene where the small building is tossed and snatched from moving cars and nothing inside the building is affected at all. Oh, and M. Douglass built a new AntMan suit, but it's a work in progress, which makes no sense other than to have several scenes where it's not functioning properly.
I mean...this movie made no sense. At all. And had no point, no real plot, no real bad guy, and nothing in the storyline that passed any real logic test. It's testament to the writing and acting and humor of it, that this wasn't just completely terrible. Instead it was 2 hours of fluff that wasn't all that bad.
And the post credit scene was 100% easy to call. I still wish Deadpool had done it first (and mocked it), but the moment it showed them all, I said "the three outside are going to disappear with the Thanos snap." Couldn't believe there were people in the audience who seemed surprised by this. And of course the natural question is "how will Antman get out?" Super easy. They have a safeguard that pulls him out if the switch isn't thrown. He will come out, and team up with Hawkeye and the remaining Avengers, and Captain Marvel, to defeat Thanos and set a new timeline where everyone is still alive. That movie....won't be pointless.
And yet....after it ended, I found myself struck by one simple question - what was the point of this movie? I mean it basically is entirely pointless. And the plot? Let's see. Apparently in the first AntMan when Paul Rudd's character did something that you're supposed to come back from (but he did), and he became subatomic, somehow the mom of The Wasp (and husband of M. Douglass) realized that he was there, even though it's infinitely large in there and he was nowhere near where she disappeared, and somehow left a mark on him so that....flash forward 2 years later, M. Douglass and The Wasp are building some kind of quantum field device and they turn it on, but still need just one part, and when it's on M. Pfeiffer again contacts Paul Rudd (how? I have no idea), and so now they know she's alive and then spend the rest of the movie trying to go back in and find her...and the way they know where she is, is because they turn on the quantum device again and she somehow inhabits Paul Rudd's body (how? I have no idea) and tells them exactly where she is, and that they have just 2 hours to find her or everything will change and it will be 100 years before they can find her again (why? I have no idea), and so M. Douglass goes in and finds her.
And in the meantime...there are some bad guys. Who? Well, one of them is the person selling them the parts to the Quantum device. How does he get those parts? No idea. Suddenly, when they are buying the last part, he reveals that he found out they aren't who they said they are, but are actually The Wasp and M. Douglass, and no he wants....I'm not sure what he wants. But they say no, and so he's after them the rest of them movie. And then a person shows up. A woman. We find out that when she was a kid her dad was doing something with quantum stuff and it blew up and killed him and his wife, but didn't kill her (why? I have no idea), and now she moves in and out of a permanent state (why? I have no idea), and she can't be picked up. And she can't hold a teddy bear. Except sometimes she can, and she can clearly put on clothes, and they stay on her even when she's phasing in and out, and now she wears a white suit which helps her somehow (how? I have no idea), and her protector is a guy who used to work with M. Douglass, but doesn't anymore because they...well, got into a fight. And he's protecting this person, and now, suddenly she only has a few weeks to live (why? I have no idea) and she needs to get the energy from M. Pfeiffer, who they know is alive (how? I have no idea) and it might kill M. Pfeiffer, but they don't care. And in the end M. Pfeiffer comes out and touches her, and she's much better, but not entirely cured (how? I HAVE NO IDEA!!!!!)
And the characters from the first AntMan (his fellow thieves)? They are in the movie for no other reason that to be funny. They have no part to the movie at all, other than that. Same with the new husband of AntMan's ex wife. Same with the FBI detective, who is convinced that AntMan is about to break his 2 year house arrest, which he got for going to fight against IronMan, which was the only part of this movie that made sense.
And...oh by the way, they can shrink cars to small sizes, and everything in it (which is inherently stupid because if at any time any of the bigger cars had run over them, they would have been killed instantly). And can shrink a building, with everything in it....which is a cool idea and effect, but entirely implausible (on just about every level) and inherently dangerous, and apparently when you are in the small building, the rules of outside nature mean nothing to you because there a scene where the small building is tossed and snatched from moving cars and nothing inside the building is affected at all. Oh, and M. Douglass built a new AntMan suit, but it's a work in progress, which makes no sense other than to have several scenes where it's not functioning properly.
I mean...this movie made no sense. At all. And had no point, no real plot, no real bad guy, and nothing in the storyline that passed any real logic test. It's testament to the writing and acting and humor of it, that this wasn't just completely terrible. Instead it was 2 hours of fluff that wasn't all that bad.
And the post credit scene was 100% easy to call. I still wish Deadpool had done it first (and mocked it), but the moment it showed them all, I said "the three outside are going to disappear with the Thanos snap." Couldn't believe there were people in the audience who seemed surprised by this. And of course the natural question is "how will Antman get out?" Super easy. They have a safeguard that pulls him out if the switch isn't thrown. He will come out, and team up with Hawkeye and the remaining Avengers, and Captain Marvel, to defeat Thanos and set a new timeline where everyone is still alive. That movie....won't be pointless.