buzzing micro caper with a sting in its

tail
4/5stars4 out of 5 stars.
Insect-sized Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly team up for a superhero sequel that’s
funny, engaging and downright lovable

Peter Bradshaw

@PeterBradshaw1
Thu 2 Aug 2018 08.00 BSTLast modified on Thu 2 Aug 2018 18.15 BST

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Small wonders … Evangeline Lilly and Paul Rudd in Ant-Man and the Wasp. Photograph:
Allstar/Marvel Studios

The two great enemies of picnics now get co-billing in this hilarious, delightful and
somehow downright lovable entertainment from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Paul
Rudd – despite his persistent Dorian Gray-like refusal to look any older than he did
in Clueless – is becoming the most mature and accomplished actor in the Marvel stable,
especially when it comes to the increasingly important register of comedy (although
Chris “Thor” Hemsworth is no slouch when it comes to getting laughs). Evangeline
Lilly is great as the Wasp, a character with a more distinctly combat-oriented
personality, a kind of counter-revisionist argument to the idea that wasps are pacifist
and are more frightened of you than you are of them. Not this one.

Ant-Man is back, and now Scott Lang, as he is known as a civilian, is under house arrest
for the criminal transgression involved in the superhero activity he was up to in the
film Captain America: Civil War. His young daughter Cassie (Abby Ryder Fortson) is
allowed to visit, but spends time with her mother, Maggie (Judy Greer), from whom
Scott is divorced. Lang is forbidden by law from making any contact with the two
geniuses and éminences grisesof micro-morphing: Dr Hank Pym, played by the
dapper Michael Douglas