Ant-Man and the Wasp review: Critics are comparing the 20th MCU film to classics like The Godfather II and Alice in Wonderland

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The third entry from the Marvel Cinematic Universe of the year 2018 is all set to hit the screens on July 6. Ant-man and the Wasp has to follow up the gigantic success and critical acclaim of Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War. A benchmark so gigantic in size that it might take the ant-sized all he’s got to conquer it. Well, seems like he does. As the first reviews of the movie are out and they are majorly positive. The movie marks the return of Paul Rudd as Ant-Man, and he is joined by Evangeline Lilly as the Wasp. Peyton Reed also returns to the director’s chair for this sequel to his 2015. Here is what the critics are saying about the film overseas!

The New Yorker impress with their headline for the review – ““Ant-Man and the Wasp” Should Have Been the “Godfather: Part II” of Superhero Movies”. They explain it as “a sequel made with even greater directorial freedom and audacity than the original.”

Wired wrote, “Truly, lean-and-meanness is Ant-Man and the Wasp’s greatest gift. After a few films full of all-you-can-eat chest-thumping, Reed’s movie is a necessary digestif, all the joys of a Marvel movie shrunk down into a quick caper that cuts through the post-Infinity War fog. Yes, this is all part of Marvel’s design. The studio knew it needed a breather between that film and next year’s Captain Marvel. But that doesn’t mean that Ant-Man and the Wasp, with all of their ease and banter, shouldn’t saunter in and have a little fun. The payoff is huge—even if the movie isn’t.”

“Laughs, drama, heists, and mystery? This movie’s got everything,” says GQ in their review. They further wrote, “It’s a movie you can wander into and be delighted by, a confection that lingers just long enough for you to remember it fondly. Cinematic universes are nice, but they’re even nicer when they don’t remind you you’re in them all the time.”

BBC were disappointed with Ant-Man and the Wasp to the extent that they quoted Alice in the Wonderland for some reason. “Young children may be amused at the tiny flying people and a giant-sized salt shaker. To them, it’s all new. Disappointed adults may wish that Scott had stayed under house arrest and made more of Rudd’s comic potential. They might agree with Lewis Carroll, who wrote of his heroine in Wonderland: “It was much pleasanter at home,’ thought poor Alice, when one wasn’t always growing larger and smaller.’” they wrote.

Well, even The New York Times compared the movie to the Lewis Caroll classic. They wrote in their review,”It’s funny how little things, like personality, can lift a movie. “Ant-Man and the Wasp” features kinetic action sequences, but what makes it zing is that Mr. Reed has figured out how to sustain the movie’s intimacy and its playfulness, even when bodies and cars go flying. He wants (needs) to wow you with special effects. But he seems even more committed to the absurdity of Ant-Man this time around, to the dread and laughter that accompany this eminently squishable superhero. Mr. Reed persuasively embraces the story’s Alice in Wonderland weirdness and also makes it a seamless piece with the action sequences, as in one witty kitchen fight that would make Claes Oldenburg giggle.”