Every scene that might have otherwise dragged is spiced with humor that keeps the audience both laughing and engaged. The story, as well as the flow of it, is superb. The directing, writing, acting, and cinematography blend together into a film that can be classified as exceptionally entertaining. For it to happen in what is admittedly one of the lower-rank character films in the Marvel universe is even more surprising. It isn’t often that there is a film where everything seems to coalesce. When caught between the self-serving Sonny Burch (Walton Goggins), the self-absorbed Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), and the pursuit by the FBI that want to use him to find Pym, Lang’s life suddenly becomes filled with choices that are harder than any he has faced before. Yet, in doing so, he gets entangled in a multi-layered plot to steal Pym’s technology, with each player having their own end goals. This draws him reluctantly out of his home to help rescue her.
But a vision of Janet Van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer), wife of Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), who has been missing for thirty years in the quantum realm, leads him to contact Pym and his daughter Hope (Evangeline Lilly). Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) is trying to make it through the last stages of his house arrest after the events of Captain America: Civil War, but is being constantly harassed by his FBI keeper, Jimmy Woo (Randall Park).
In Ant-Man and the Wasp, Director Peyton Reed (Yes Man) and principal writers Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers (Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle) prove that size really doesn’t matter, whether that be of the characters or their place in the Marvel expanded universe.