Marvel Tweaks Their Superhero Film Formula With Ant-Man

An anonymous reader writes: Over the past decade, Marvel has been rolling out superhero film after superhero film. They've found a successful formula, and each of the last half-dozen films has brought in over a half-billion dollars in ticket revenue. Today they added to the franchise with Ant-Man, based on a superhero who can shrink himself to the size of an ant (while maintaining normal strength), and control insects. But where the spate of Avengers-related movies only occasionally interjected humor into their world-preserving plots, Ant-Man focuses more on being funny and simply entertaining. Reviews are generally positive, but not overwhelmingly so — Rotten Tomatoes has it at 79%, with a 91% audience score while Metacritic has it at 64/100, with an 8.4/10 user score. The LA Times calls it "playful." Vox has good and bad to say about Ant-Man, but notes that its failings are very common to Marvel's other films. Salon says, "...in its medium-stupid and mismanaged fashion it's not so awful." Wired posted the obligatory physics of Ant-Man article, as did FiveThirtyEight.

Comments

Sexist

[turkeydance]

Uncle-Woman.

Re:This isn't tech. This isn't stuff that matters.

[Pfhorrest]

Comic book movies are about as nerdy as it gets, so this definitely qualifies as "news for nerds".

Shouldn't that be Ant Woman?

[WillAffleckUW]

I mean, unless he's a drone ... Although, given the actor, that might make sense.