The New <em>Ant-Man</em> and the Creaky, Cringey Marvel Machine
No hero, it seems, is invulnerable to the franchise’s bleakest obsession yet: gobs and gobs of CGI.
Marvel movies have never been excessively attached to the real world, given their affinity for , , , and the like. Still, some of these films had at least a vague sense of tactility, and perhaps the most grounded hero was plucky little Ant-Man, played by Paul Rudd, the perfect smirking everyman of the 21st century. Ant-Man’s power is that he can get very small (though sometimes he’ll switch it up and get very large). He lives in San, was a criminal restaurateur named Sonny, whose superpower was that he owned a handgun.
