Marvel has become a juggernaut when it comes to movies. All of their movies do great in the box office. However, there are a few that didn't get the hype they deserved. For example, Marvel's Ant-Man.
Ant-Man tells the story of Scott Lang, a electronics whiz with a knack for stealing stuff. He meets Hank Pym, a scientist who designed a suit that allows the wearer to shrink at will, while still retaining the same body mass. This movie is funny, action-packed, and all around awesome. However, it didn't do nearly as well as, for example Avengers: Age of Ultron, which was a huge disappointment in my opinion.
This movie was very well done both in terms of special effects and writing, and introduced us to a lovable character that we definitely want to see more of. Also, Paul Rudd! All of that is done, and this is the bigone, WITHOUT A BUNCH OF POINTLESS ACTIONS SEQUENCES! Also, the best battle in all of the Marvel universe took place in Ant-Man, in the form of the Thomas the Tank Engine battle.
This movie deserves the same or more popularity than Age of Ultron, but gets so much less. This is probably because of the relative obscurity of the character, and his name. Whenever I tell a friend that is not a Marvel fan that Ant-Man is a great movie, and ask if they have seen it, sometimes the response is "Yeah! It was awesome!" However, more often then not, the response goes somewhere along the lines of "Ant-Man, what kind of hero is that? Can he turn into an ant or something?" In addition to this is the fact that Ant-Man got almost no promotion or marketing, which is something that a obscure characters debut movie desperately needs. For example, Deadpool, who used to be a hero that was known by all comic fans but no movie fans, much the same as Ant-Man, benefited from phenomenal marketing, and was extremely successful. Ant-Man, on the other hand, only had a few trailers.
This is sad, because Ant-Man was actually one of the original Avengers, along with Iron Man, Hulk, Wasp, Thor, and Captain America.
Anyways, my point here is that Ant-Man deserves way more hype than it gets, and any Marvel or action fan would love it and should watch it.
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