If you are one of those people wondering when these comic book movies are going to run out of steam, you aren’t one of those people who has, you know, ever actually read comics.
If you did, you would know that the comics medium has survived–nee, thrived– for decades, predicated on the fact that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
And so comes “Ant-Man,” Marvel’s next foray into the Avengers-laden “Marvel Cinematic Universe,” where superheroes interact and fight both with and alongside each other in the equivalent of the boy band supershow.
Continuing that analogy you could call Ant-Man the 98 Degrees of superheroes, called into service because there is money to be made on the backs of superheroes, and they will keep churning them out as long as we keep lapping them up.
But that doesn’t mean he doesn’t fit the MCU like a glove, starting off with cameos from Marvel principals of the past and hinting at what is to come.
But is it good? Let’s say it stands with the usual quality that Marvel has been putting out, a combination action/adventure and comedy to create an amiable, fun moviegoing experience that is occasionally thrilling, and almost disposable in nature.
And you’ll see it, because of course you will. And you will enjoy it like the rest of us.
