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Movie Review: Ant-Man (+trailer)

By Craig Nicholson
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22 Jul, 2015 05:00 PM2 mins to read

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Ant-man has big fun with a small hero.

Ant-man has big fun with a small hero.

There never seems to be a shortage of superheroes in the Marvel world.

While the likes of Iron Man, Thor and Captain America have become household names, Ant-Man is the newest member of the hugely successful movie franchise. And he is good fun as well.

Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) is an ex-con with special skills in breaking into buildings and stealing important things - just the man Dr Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) is looking for to help save the world. Pym is a genius scientist who invented technology in his younger days that allowed living creatures to be shrunk while increasing their strength.

Seeing the potential for chaos, he hid his invention from the ambitious protege - Darren Cross (Corey Stoll) - he took on at his business.

When Pym realises Cross is getting ever closer to unlocking his dangerous secret, he knows something must be done.

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Pym turns to Lang and convinces him that as Ant-Man he can break into Cross' high-security lab holding the technology and destroy it.

Armed with his super-suit and the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, Ant-Man is ready to take on the world. With the help of his ex-con buddies and Pym's daughter Hope (Evangeline Lilly), Ant-Man tackles his perilous mission.

But his toughest test is to come when his daughter's life is put in jeopardy by Cross and he is the only one who can save her.

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Ant-Man relies a little less on action than previous efforts but it does boast an engaging storyline, believable characters and quite a few good laughs.

Ant-Man
(PG), 117 minutes
Rating: 3.5/5

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