I watched Ant-Man about two hours ago with some friends and although I thought it was a fun movie it just didn’t click in the same way as most of the other MCU movies (except “The Incredible Hulk”).
I can’t even say for sure why it didn’t, maybe it was because it lacked some action in the first half of the movie. Or because some of the jokes didn’t work very well in my opinion (which could also be because of a not quite perfect German translation).
But honestly I think it wasn’t just because of those reasons but of the overall “feeling” of the movie.
For example Scott’s training progress going from about 5% to 95% in under 5 minutes feels quite forced as well as some of his jokes.
To make this clear: None of this means Ant-Man is a bad movie but it just can’t compete with the MCU’s most action packed movies like Captain America: The Winter Soldier or Avengers: Age of Ultron nor can it create the same crazy-funny comic book experience as GotG does.
In my opinion the mid-/post-credit scenes were really the best thing about Ant-Man (apart from his fight against a certain avenger), which is a real shame for me because I don’t think it’s a good sign if teasing future movies outshines everything.
Ant-Man may be a box office hit but in my opinion it just can't compete with my favorite MCU movies such as GotG.
I’m sorry if this article is shorter than most of the other ones on this site but I just wanted to tell you my opinion about Ant-Man.
P.S.: Please forgive me if there are any grammatical errors or spelling issues in here (I’m German).