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'Ant-Man and the Wasp' is a bright, cheery tonic from the Marvel superhero factory

It's nice, for a change, to see a superhero movie in which a big building doesn't blow up. Even nicer to discover that, with the help of a handy remote control, the building can suddenly shrink to the size of a suitcase, small enough to tuck away in the overhead compartment.

"Ant-Man and the Wasp," for its part, proves just as winningly compactible. Its zippy action scenes and trippy bursts of kaleidoscopic color look great in a theater, but in some ways its whimsical sensibility and playful, diverting story might feel just as well suited to the dimensions of your in-flight entertainment screen.

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