Ant-man was
one of Marvel’s more modest hits when it was released back in 2015, making
around $520m on around $120m budget. A sequel was ultimately inevitable and
Marvel did increase the budget for it, putting it around $190m. Peyton Reed is
back directing but we have an all knew writing team including Chris McKenna,
who wrote the Lego Batman movie and Spider-man: Homecoming, Erik Summers, who
also worked on Homecoming and the previously reviewed Jumanji sequel, Andrew
Barrer, who’s last work was on the 2014 film Haunt, Gabriel Ferrari, who was
producer of Haunt, and Paul Rudd himself, who had helped write the screenplay
for the original Ant-man.
The film had
the blessing/curse of being released between Infinity War and Endgame,
anticipation was high, and turnout was OK, it made around $620m, again a modest
success for Marvel. Critically it did well, an 88% Rotten Tomatoes rating but
with an average of only 6.97/10, Audiences gave it a 76% rating with an average
3.76/5. How did I find it? Let’s take a look
