Rumours of the death of this blog area greatly exaggerated - the spirit was willing on Tuesday but the technology was, unfortunately, weak. Even today you're only getting a quickie before I head into town to sell sparkly stuff around10 hours after I stopped selling it last night, but alas, such is life. More will hopefully be forthcoming next week, when I'm not busy trying to neck as much caffeine as I can before my hands grow too shaky to hold my pliers.
...Anyway, Ant-Man. Mr. B asked what film I wanted to watch yesterday, I said something undemanding and this is what he threw at me.
But ants, I said, I don't like ants, especially not the winged ones.
Superhero movies turned you into a fan of weapons magnates, said Mr. B, So why not winged ants?
Because, I said, Multiple Robert Downey Juniors have never flown into my face and got stuck in my hair.
Although, I didn't say, I do still live in hope.
Seriously, though, I've found myself burning out a little bit on Marvel Movies lately. The trailer for Captain America 3: The Civil War hasn't helped any, ludicrously portentous as it is; it's not that it necessarily looks bad (although it kind of does), it just doesn't look as though it'll be any fun whatsoever.
I like fun, especially in my superhero flicks, and when Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish abandoned Ant-Man partway through development I figured that that was when the fun would end. Reviews were mixed, and I didn't want to waste my hard-earned cash on something I wasn't going to enjoy. Friends, though, were largely positive about it, and when you're trying not to waste valuable braincells in the narrow gap between the professional job and the semi-pro one, you take what you can get.
What I got, in the end, was a damned good time. Marvel haven't come out with anything this lighthearted since the original Iron Man, and so Ant Man, with its likeable characters and marked lack of people being imperilled by the tens of thousands, felt like a breath of fresh air. Oh, and as well as being a superhero movie? It's also the cutest heist flick I've seen in, hm, about a decade, with my only real criticisms relating to the heavy product placement and some slightly implausible kid-in-danger stuff in the third act.
All in all, though? Ant-Man is a fantastic time. Highly recommended, and not just because the ants were kind of adorable (even the winged ones).
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