Did the bleak ending of
Infinity War leave you feeling hopeless? Well, the good people at Marvel knew that the finger snap felt around the universe would piss all over people's emotions, so they went out and cooked up a joyous palette cleanser in the form of
Ant-Man and the Wasp. The just-as-entertaining sequel to the 2015 superhero/heist movie hybrid is more concerned with letting its charismatic cast tell silly jokes and staging action scenes that play around with the shrinking/enlarging technology that gives the titular heroes (Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly) their superhuman abilities than establishing world-altering stakes. The proceedings are so consistently light that it even treat its villains (Hannah John-Kamen, Walton Goggins) more like playful adversaries that butt heads with the heroes than true antagonists with sinister agendas. This firm dedication to inconsequential goofiness may prevent it from going down as an overly memorable viewing experience, but I thought it was kind of nice to watch a superhero movie that tabled epic aspirations in favor of streamlined, relatively conflict-free simplicity.
Of course, this two-hour party is brought to a screeching halt by a mid-credits scene that brings these characters into the
Infinity War narrative and subsequently creates a scenario that should serve as a jumping-off point for the second half of the story. Hopefully March's
Captain Marvel will serve as a similarly engaging diversion before Thanos returns to reinforce the harsh reality of the current MCU.
Grade: B
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