 So now we have the 20th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It seems like there's no stopping Kevin Feige and friends. But how was the movie? Well let's find out. My name is Brandon Kedevery and this is just my opinion. Hey what's going on guys thank you so much for tuning in to my opinion slash review for Ant-Man and The Wasp. I really do appreciate it. So like I said in my intro this is the 20th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe Ant-Man and The Wasp. It is the sequel to Ant-Man which came out in 2015 July 2015 right after Avengers Age of Ultron and I have it right here. My expectations for this film were mediocre to low. I was very disappointed that Edgar Wright, the R2 Edgar Wright, stepped away from the film and Peyton Reed came in. Peyton Reed is the director of the first Ant-Man. He also did Yes Man with Jim Carrey and Bring It On which came out in 99-2000 something like that. One of my favorite movies of all time. Not Top 10, not Top 20, Top 100. But if I were to list maybe 500 of my favorite movies of all time Bring It On would probably be on there. But anyway Peyton Reed is coming back to direct this sequel. My expectations for this film were pretty mediocre. I was interested in seeing it but I just wasn't super duper excited. Like this was Black Panther or Avengers Infinity War. But I thought Peyton Reed did a very great job with the first film. And you know so I had somewhat some mediocre hopes for this one. Now what it's about like I said it's a sequel to the first film. It's also kind of a sequel to Captain America Civil War. And there's a little hints of Avengers Infinity War which I'll talk about later on. But if you saw Captain America Civil War you know that Scotland got captured. But at the end Captain America freed them. But with the technology of the big Ant-Man suit being on the news destroying airports in Germany and things like that. You have to wonder well aren't they gonna go after the people that created the technology. Hank Pym played by Michael Douglas. And his daughter Janet Van Dyne played by Evangeline Lilly. Of course so that is the premise of the movie. Scotland is on house arrest for getting captured. You know he has a family. He doesn't want to be going around saving the world. And then the rest of these organizations are after Hank Pym and Hope Van Dyne. Or yeah Hope Van Dyne excuse my call to Janet Van Dyne a second ago. To try to get the technology. The first off the film started off great. That gave us more backstory of how Hank Pym's wife went to the Quantum Rim. And just the overall tone of the film is just something that I noticed at the very beginning. This is not anything like Black Panther. This is not an Infinity War. This is his own standalone film of comedy that has to do with Marvel comic characters. And that's fantastic. Again three characters that we have kind of at the forefront. Or actually four characters that we have with the forefront of the comedy. On my opinion. T.I. And David Desk. Mal Chen. I'm not too familiar how to pronounce his name. But I'll say that. And you know they were funny to me. I really did like them in the film. They were all balanced. My opinion is kind of the leader of the group. And I remember when I saw the first film Ant-Man. My opinion was funny to me. But I think it was Alberto Gonzalez. I forgot his name. But he's somewhat popular in the film Punditry World. And he was offended by my opinion's character. Saying that because he's an Hispanic character. And the gentleman that I'm talking about is Hispanic too. And this was like you know. I was offended because my opinion was put off as a clown. And I will agree to that yes. But something that I noticed in this movie is in Ant-Man and the Wasp is. Yes my opinion and this character may have come across as a clown. But however so did T.I. in character Dave. And also this other character named Kurt. So he had like a black guy a white guy and a brown brown guy. You know black white and brown all kind of you know seeming like clowns. So you know I don't know it's kind of like family guy. I don't know if you watched that show. They they make fun of a lot of groups of people. But they make fun of everybody. And they make fun of themselves or kind of like the Simpsons. So it's kind of you know even there if you you know can kind of catch my drift. But I did like those three characters of course Paul Rudd. He's back as the leading man Ant-Man. He's great too. He has great comedic timing. You know he is he's you know a leader in his own film. But I don't look at him as like a super duper hero either like Captain America or Thor. He's like right there in the middle. And that's needed or whatever in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Somebody that you can take seriously but laugh at at the same time. I mean even though I did laugh from Thor Ragnarok. I didn't go to laugh but you know it just had laughs. But you know that's great there. I said Evangeline Lilly is great. I don't know it's just something about her that I found fascinating. But she's just a great actress on screen. One of the well I won't go there first. Michael Douglas is back as you know Hank Pym. You know he's fantastic as well. You know he's great in everything that he did. He does pretty much the whole cast is fantastic. About the relationships I really did love the relationship between Paul Roy Scott Lang and his daughter Cassie. I thought that was beautiful. He is on house arrest and he is going to make the best out of it. If he can't leave the house he is going to build that house to be the most fun thing possible for himself. So he doesn't go lose his mind out of boredom. And also for his daughter. I love that. I love how you know she didn't really trust him or know what to think of our father in the first film. But now it's clear they have a great relationship. They they love each other. I like the transition from the relationship of his ex-wife and her new husband. Which what is his name again. I don't know. Is it is this a Bobby Kenner. Yeah Bobby kind of all. He is the new husband of Ant-Man's or Scott Lang's ex-wife. And just you know they didn't like him in the very beginning in the first film. But you know they're just like a nice blended family. And I just think it's beautiful. And you know it was a lot of growth as far as that's concerned in this film. And I see even more potential for growth in the third film if they do make a third Ant-Man film. So that is something that I do like. There are some new characters in this film. Jimmy Woolplay by Randall Park. I saw a couple of reviews of people really just did not care for him. But I liked him myself. I thought you know he was kind of funny. He may have been a little too goofy for the role he was trying to play. In the real world being an FBI agent. But it wasn't that big of a deal for me. I did like it. Lawrence Fishburn is in this as well for a little bit. And you know I enjoyed him too. And let's talk about the villains of the film since we're talking about the characters. We have Walton Goggins. He's playing the character of Sonny Burch. And then we also excuse me. We also have Ghost or Ava played by Hannah John Cayman. I'm not too familiar with her work. She was in Ready Player One in Black Mirror and just a few other things. Walton Goggins was in the Tomb Raider movie that came out in March of this year. Based off the video game. And they're both the villains. And they were both fine. The you know Paxton or not Paxton excuse me. What is in there? Sonny Burch. Walton Goggins as the villain or the henchman. He was great. I think he served his purpose. He popped in and out of the film at all the right opportune times. You know just somebody that's obsessed with money and wants to you know be in control of power and all that great stuff. As far as Ghost is concerned. It wasn't bad but like you know we've been in a lot of strong villains lately with excuse me Thanos and with Josh Brolin. Michael B. Jordan with Killmonger. The guy from Spider-Man Homecoming. Vulture. Michael Keaton. Great Villain. Hella. Played by Kate Blanchett. Ava slash Ghost is nowhere near the level of those act those performances. I understand her plight. I understand what she's going through. And I really do understand why she's anger and frustrated. I get it. But her acting was not bad. But I just kind of thought it just didn't match with the rest of the film. I kind of just wonder. But even though I understood why she was upset. I kind of just also want to be like will you please calm down just a little bit. You know they may not make sense because given her state of being and what will possibly happen to her if she didn't accomplish her goal. But I just kind of wanted her to calm down a little bit. So she just wasn't a bad villain. Just wasn't the strongest villain. As far as like the tech is concerned and technology and all the gizmos and gadgets and things like that. I love the growing and the shrinking and this and that. And how they expanded that universe literally and metaphorically with the quantum realm or the microverse and things like that. I thought all the growing and the shrinking and all that was very clever. It wasn't just a smooth ride for the characters in this movie. Sometime their costumes were what am I trying to say. Sometime their costumes malfunctioned and it just didn't work properly. And I just kind of asked a little bit more fluff to the film and create some more of a challenge for the characters and everything just not is easy peasy. As far as the fighting is concerned and all the action and the venture. I did like the technology and the effects of the ghost character and how she was able to phase in and out of everything. I thought I had everything figured out in the trailer but I did learn a bit more about her abilities while actually watching the film. Which is a good thing. Seeing Hope Vendime and the ghost character fight back and forth was freaking badass. Hope is a badass by the way in her wasp costume. I do like that. But seeing her fight the ghost was real nice because we have a phaser versus growing shrinkers. So sometime when Evangeline and Lily would try to punch or whatever it would go straight through ghosts and phase. But then sometime if ghosts would come through and try to karate chop her in the neck like this. The wasps would shrink real quick and then grow and then come back with this move right over here and then shrink again and boom boom. And they were just like phasing and shrinking and growing and back and forth like this and all that. And I'm sitting there like yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, it was nice sort of. I was like smiling ear to ear as I watched it. Like man, they really did a good job here of giving you a great example of how these characters can use their powers and abilities in battle with less than a second to think or you end up going to die and things like that. So that's great there. The overall story is just really them trying to get you know, Janet Van Dyme out of the Quantum Rim. And I like that. You may have this simple task, but they keep running until all these speed bumps in the movie. And it's not annoying. It's like, man, that's just a great way to like keep the story going and you know, create challenges and things like that. Like I spoke of before, you know, for all the characters. As far as any complaints that I do have, one complaint is I kind of felt that they cheated as far as the technology is concerned. I bragged on it just a second ago, how great I liked it, but it doesn't mean that it's perfect. Because in the first film, they made a great point to make sure that Scott Lang or Ant-Man or anybody using the PIM protocol technology could not grow a shrink unless their helmet was closed. But they kind of abandoned that a little bit in this film here with Scott Lang. And I just kind of, I mean, you all, I mean, you have to take all this with a grand assault and suspend your disbelief. But, you know, because it's a character growing and shrinking. But at the same time, I want them to try to keep it as realistic as possible, even though this is not realistic in any sense of the world away. But that just kind of like stood out to me or whatever. Also just, I kind of wanted the backstory with Ghost or what I just wasn't in love with. You know, I spoke about her performance, but I kind of just felt like, you know, when they talked about her story, it would just kind of just like, you know, kind of mushed together very quickly. And, you know, they just kind of ran out of time to execute. Wasn't bad. I just wasn't in love with it. Like I have been in love with other characters or backstories in that film. But other than that, guys, the characters across the board for the most part were just great. This money was hilarious. I was laughing. The technology was cool. I understand it for the most part in layman's terms. The action was great. This was just a nice additional comment book movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. As far as if I like this one more than the first eight men, I'm going to say that they're right there even for me. Right now, I mean, I don't know if I'm going to do a spoiler review or not, and I may reveal more information then. But I'm thrilled with where these movies are now. I mean, that doesn't make sense. I like both of the films the same. I'll just go ahead and say that I don't like one more than the other. And I actually can't wait to watch it again. If I had to rate Ant-Man and the Wasp out of a 1 out of 10, I'm going to give it an 8.5 out of 10. Yes, an 8.5 out of 10. But guys, that is just my opinion for Ant-Man and the Wasp. Have you seen it or do you want to see it? Have I turned you on? Have I turned you off? Do you agree with me or do you disagree with me? Let me know down in the comment section below. Let's get this conversation going and keep it flowing. If you liked this video, go ahead and give me a thumbs up. If you don't, that's fine. But you can still subscribe to my channel. You can also go to my, look at me up on social media, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. All that good stuff. It's right there at the bottom of your screen. And I made it very easy by providing a link to all that good stuff down in the description box below. And I almost forgot guys, make sure you stay after the post-credits scene. I mean, stay all the way to the end. There's a fun scene at the very end of the credits. And there's also a mid-credits scene that deals directly with Avengers Infinity War. But guys, I just want to thank you again for tuning into my pen slash review of Amen and the Wasp. And before you go, don't forget that my name is Brennan Keith-Avery and that's just my pen. Peace.