(Some parts are well written, but a few paragraphs are cursively translated, which is extremely spoiler.)
https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/deep-focus-ant-man-wasp/
By Michael Sragow
The Lingling Circus is closed, but Marvel Studios is still alive. For the director, while organizing countless superheroes and villains, ensure that some clown characters appear from time to time, just like directing a show of the largest circus on earth.
Marvel sometimes uses very bold directors who can change the entire industry chain, such as the New Zealand ghost director Taika Waititi of "Thor III: Ragnarok", and the director of "Black Panther" Ryan Coogler. In the "Ant-Man" series, the director did a completely different thing. He did not change the mainstream audience's inherent perception of the characters in the play, but tried to tell a splendid adventure that is linked to each other like a welcome performance or weekend excursion.
When our superhero becomes the smallest or largest person in the world, the movie always starts from the perspective of a normal person (audience). This is how he creates jokes and drama.
In the play, through playing a game of manipulating ants at home with his daughter Casey, the director made us get to know Ant-Man/Lang again. In order for his daughter to experience his adventures in the mini kingdom, Lang cast a 1.5-meter-high pulp ant. He secretly manipulated the fake ant to show his daughter the direction, as if she could really communicate with the ant like her father. They slid the cardboard and hit the fence. We saw Lang wearing a monitor on his ankle. This time he was imprisoned at home because he took the Ant-Man suit to participate in the reunion in "American Team 3: Civil War" and violated the requirements. Corvia Agreement.
This is a very interesting scene, and at the same time it is announced that the "Ant-Man" series is a comedy and a family-oriented comedy (this movie has a rating of 13 or older due to "may contain sci-fi violence"). "Ant-Man 2" has a lot of explosion scenes, but it is still family-oriented. The gray-haired Mr. Pim and his smart and capable daughter Hope are determined to rescue Jenny from the subatomic quantum field together, their wives and mother, they need Lang’s help, because only Lang "has been to the subfield." "And returned to reality; besides, when they debugged the "quantum channel", Jenny and Lang reached a connection. But at present they are very angry, because Lang did not notify them when he joined the reunion, but they were wanted and had to go underground.
The director is very good at mobilizing the curiosity of the audience. He attaches great importance to diversity, from action scenes and jokes to spectacles and suspense. Can this barely formed three-person alliance beat Sonny, the black-market technology pimp who wants to take Pim Labs? Can Lang avoid this neat FBI agent with obsessive-compulsive disorder monitoring his last three days of his two-year sentence? Does Pim's former colleague, the arrogant Bill, want to hinder or help them? The "ghost" in the white metal coat looks like a three-eyed robotic swordsman, what the hell is it? Why does it want to snatch Pim's laboratory? Can Lang regain the love of Pim and Hope? And can Jenny return safely?
Luther (Lang) is still the interesting part of this series of movies. He is no longer as refreshing as in "Ant-Man 1" or "American Team 3", but he is still delivering "Anyone can become Ant-Man" Concept. He relieved the stress of doing nothing by singing karaoke, playing electronic drums and playing children's bowling. His laughter is that he calls the US team "cap" and becomes very clumsy when he becomes a super big Pooh. When he asked several Pims, "Are you adding the word quantum before everything?" It is cute.
As a person with a prior record, Lang knows how difficult it is to find a job. So he often had to take care of the security company he and the long-winded Louis co-founded. Together with their two young partners-Kurt and Dave, they formed the clown role of the whole show. Louis also joined Ant-Man and the Wasp to protect Pim's Mini Lab and Quantum Channel. His masterpiece is to use rap to possess various characters in his memories to introduce/distort the plot.
The director's strategy is to pay more attention to the coherence of the series rather than a single scene scheduling. In a car chase filmed on the streets of San Francisco, the Wasp turned a large truck into a toy car as small as a toy car. This is an interesting imitation of the 1968 film BULLITT; Ant-Man, who turned into a giant, slid on a trailer like a scooter Playing, at this time, the customer sitting in the opposite coffee shop playing with his mobile phone did not even notice him flying past.
When the plot may be too simple, "ghosts" will appear to add conspiracy. "Ghost" is a victim of a quantum laboratory explosion, and has been in a state of "quantum imbalance" for a long time. At the cellular level, she has also been in a state of splitting and closing, which enables her to be in a quantum state, able to pass through objects-including humans, while suffering great physical pain. She represents the dark side of quantum experiments.
In general, Reed's movies seem to be blowing by a breeze, the kind of breeze with laughter. The best scene may be that the thumb-sized Wasp escaped the continuous pursuit of the mallet in the kitchen. There is the gene of "Escape of the Ruffian". There are also some inspiring absurd scenes that resemble another kind of comedy: "The Monty Python and the Holy Grail".
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