
To start it of with, I want to state that I am still unsatisfied by the chosen story line for the Ant-Man cinematic universe but I understand why this story line was chosen over the one that I personally want. Also there will be spoilers in this review, so be warned.
The second Ant-man movie is taking place just before the Infinity war movie and about two years after the Civil war movie. If I understood it correct. Hank Pym and his daughter Hope has found theoretical proof for the chance that Janet van Dyne (the original Wasp and wife of Hank Pym) could be alive in the quantum realm, waiting for a chance to escape back into the real world. But since the Civil war, they have been on a run from FBI and other organizations. Scott Lang (Ant-Man) has been in a two year house arrest and is three days from ending his imprisonment when he receives a mental message from Janet van Dyne, making him believe that she is alive. Scott reaches out for Hank and Hope to tell them the good news and they respond by kidnapping him so he can help them save Janet. As the three now have teamed up, Hank explains what, he and Hope have learned and how they stay hidden (Shrinking technology, apparently FBI did not see it coming). They are in need of one last piece to finish their portal to the quantum realm and while retrieving it a new opponent appears. A woman (Ghost) who can become invisible and walk through anything tries to hinder them and to get access to their secret laboratory.

The setting sounds fine, with a race between the bad and the good to use this new technology and a race against time for Scott to help his friends and come back home before FBI finds out broke his house arrest. But when that is said, it has some questionable choices. All the "science" with pym particles, the shrinking/growing and the quantum realm is at best theoretical physics but they have manage to utilize it, which is truly groundbreaking in many ways. The problem is that all the science they do is the first time they do it, which means that they can not know what will happen as they have no prior data but someone they just make anything work and they know exactly how it will work and what will happen. It is like they just said fuck the science, we just do it without explaining too much of it. Which is fine but is also a bold move. Secondly they have the technology to shrink and enlarge anything to any size they want, so why would they keep shrinking their laboratory to the size of of trolley suitcase instead of shrinking it to be in a pocket. They would have avoided many problems if they just shrunk the laboratory and hid it instead of running around with a suitcase sized building all the time. It is like they wanted it to be taken. Thirdly and this is not a big deal but they could have given it a mention, they relocate a building all over the city all the time, but they do not talk about the utilities for the building, what do they do with water, electricity and waste disposal. Water could of course be gathered from rain and electricity with a generator (a large one). But they are not connected to the sewer lines at any point, do they just shrink the shit away or something? Hank and Hope lives in the building, they have to go to the toilet somewhere when they are home.

Fourth, we have this whole movie where the people talk about what they can and what they can not do out of different reasons, like Scott has to be home to talk with the FBI so he can get his freedom back. And they have this ongoing with Ghost for the laboratory and the technology. So when they defeat Ghost and prevents her from draining the quantum energy to safe her own life, I got a bit disappointed when Ghost got saved. Ghost tried to steal, kidnap and even murder to save her own life instead of just asking the only person who could save her for help and she still survived. There have to be consequences for the actions you take, even in movies. If you chose to do all the wrong things and fails and then still get everything without any consequences, it is not a good ending. Ghost should have died. Fifth, the timeline seems a bit off at some times like in this one scene where they hide the laboratory in the forest. Scott gets notified that the FBI knows where they are and he should hurry home, he shrinks down and jumps onto and ant flies home while Hank and Hope packs up. Scott flies home on an ant faster than the FBI can drive to his home and the forest. Unless the forest were in his back yard (which it is not) he should not have made it home in time. Especially since Hank and Hope does not have time to pack up the laboratory before the FBI catches them. And lastly for the post credit, why are they suddenly throwing in quantum healing energy, they do not explain it, it just seems like they needed a reason for Scott to be stuck in the quantum realm while the others gets obliterated by Thanos.
I feel like this movie is plot wise okay, it has some things that could have been done better or rather just explained a little bit. It is not the worst MCU, it is funny and filled with action. The script should maybe have been adjusted a bit. I will give it three and a half star, there are things they could have done better, but they kept true to rest of the Ant-Man and MCU story.
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