Jul 22, 2015 19:23
Well, having sufficiently ramped down my expections not only before the film but also during the beginning of the film, I left the cinema with a massive grin on my face, having laughed a few times during it (for the right reasons), sat up to marvel at some of the visuals, and clapped at the end of the mid-credits sequence, as did the row of 12-or-so-year-old boys in the row in front of me. So after that it seems really mean to the director et al. to say, totally predictably, - but I will becasue it's true - that I wondered intermitently while watching and afterwards still, what it would have been like if Edgar Wright had directed it (and suspect it would have been better, comedy-wise and action-sequence coregography-wise). But it's good! (amazingly.) The we-feared-irredeemable Ant Man is not unredeemed.
(which is not to say I could tell if it would work for someone who didn't have notaligia re marvel superheroes from childhood, the original of this one in particular, and a liking of insects.)