[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

Ant-Man and The Wasp

I liked it, it's not the homerun that Black Panther was, nor did it have the spectacle of Infinity War but it was perfectly serviceable. Good performances, decent plot and a nice change of pace for an MCU villain.

7/10

I liked that it didn't really HAVE a villain. It had a minor one for the sake of action and one that wasn't really a villain at all, just someone trying to save herself... but the real "villains" were tackling the quantum realm, and the "race" to do all of this stuff and not get caught breaking house arrest. It was interesting in that the latter was really the major "threat" of the movie - the villain himself wasn't much of a threat - the danger for Ant Man himself was the risk of going to prison forever.

Also, the mid-credits sequence...

Spoiler:

it partly shows (I think) just why there were so few scenarios in Dr Strange's "14 million futures" where they "win". As, fairly obviously at this point, the quantum realm is going to play a large part in the next Avengers film, so it was probably necessary that Ant Man end up stranded there at the end of the movie. And that requires PERFECT timing. He only "goes in" for a matter of seconds... which means, Thanos has to "snap his fingers" exactly in that window of time. A few seconds earlier and it's before Scott's gone into the quantum realm. A few seconds later, and the Pimms are around for long enough to have pulled him out before disappearing. Meaning that the various things that happen in the final fights (on Titan and in Wakanda, Thor getting the axe to slow him down at the last second) have to delay him from getting the last stone for just long enough to hit that window. Any slight difference and it fails