'ANT-MAN' is the latest addition in Marvel's ever growing cinematic universe. Both the very first Ant-Man of Marvel Comics, Hank Pym who originally created Ultron, and Scott Lang, an ex-convict who tries his best to maintain a good relationship with his little daughter and was created in 1979, are present in the first big movie version of "Ant-Man", a shrinking man who can communicate with ants.
The movie starts in 1989 with Hank Pym, a genius inventor who has found a way to shrink people (played by Michael Douglas who is made to look much younger with the help of computer wizardry) through what is called the Pym particle. He resigns from the company he has founded when he found out that some unscrupulous people want to exploit his invention for evil purposes.
Cut to the present. Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) has just been released from prison for burglary. He now wants to go straight for the sake of his daughter, Cassie (Abbie Fortson), but it's hard to land a job when you're an ex-con and also when your ex-wife (Judy Greer) and her current husband cop (Bobby Cannavale) are hostile to you.
His friends convince Scott to do one more job. They burglarize the house of someone very rich but all they get from the safe in its basement is a weird-looking suit. It turns out that this suit was the one invented by Hank Pym years ago and it makes whoever is wearing it shrink into the size of an ant.
Pym has actually just set everything up to recruit Scott to work for him to steal the Yellow Jacket of Darren Cross (Corey Stoll), a former protege of Pym who stole his technique in shrinking people and used it on the Yellow Jacket. He is now about to sell it to some greedy folks in a company called Hydra (does that sound familiar?), with the assistance of Hope (Evangeline Lilly), Pym's own daughter who's estranged from her dad.
Since this is an origin story, the movie is somewhat like the first "Iron Man" movie. We get a lot of screen time showing Scott being trained on how to use the Ant suit, like learning how to leap through a key hole. He also has to learn how to communicate with ants, like teaching them how to carry sugar cubes into a cup of coffee.
By Mario Bautista: Showbiz Portal