Video review: 'Ant-Man and the Wasp' offers small pleasures

October 13, 2018 at 5:04AM
Evangeline Lilly and Paul Rudd in "Ant-Man and the Wasp."
Evangeline Lilly and Paul Rudd in "Ant-Man and the Wasp." (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Small pleasures

Following the grandiose spectacles of "Black Panther" and "Avengers: Infinity War," Marvel's "Ant-Man and the Wasp" (⋆⋆⋆, PG-13) feels a wee bit insignificant. Paul Rudd returns as the amiable but semi-incompetent knight in shrinking armor, joined by Evangeline Lilly as a new colleague/potential love interest. The film's foremost accomplishments come in the lightheartedly surrealist action scenes — as when a bad man gets beaned with a salt shaker that grows to the size of a phone booth.

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