Ant-Man
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | Release Date: July 17, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
64
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 44 Critic Reviews
Positive:
28
Mixed:
15
Negative:
1
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60
The New YorkerAnthony LaneJul 20, 2015
Then, there is Thomas the Tank Engine, who gives the most thoughtful performance in the movie. He is part of a train set in the bedroom of Scott’s young daughter, and, as such, he is perfectly adapted to the dimensions of Ant-Man’s world. Read full review
60
SalonAndrew O'HehirJul 19, 2015
A discombobulated summer movie that’s kind of fun but doesn’t have nearly enough story to fill up two hours. Read full review
60
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottJul 17, 2015
A well-conceived superhero romp in its own right, and one that stands nicely on its own six legs. Read full review
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinJul 17, 2015
Ant-Man isn’t much more than pleasant (Peyton Reed directs limply), but anything Marvel that doesn’t feel Marvel-ish makes me smile. Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzJul 16, 2015
The problem with Peyton Reed's film is that when he shrinks the always-affable Paul Rudd, he shrinks a big part of Rudd's charisma, too. Read full review
60
The New York TimesA.O. ScottJul 16, 2015
This film is a passable piece of drone work from the ever-expanding Marvel-Disney colony. It provides obligatory, intermittently amusing links to other corporate properties, serving essentially as a sidebar to the “Avengers” franchise. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierJul 15, 2015
Because of his easygoing comedy persona, Rudd is a perfect choice — and another example of Marvel’s savvy casting. He never takes anything too seriously, but he seems invested in the emotional side of the story. Read full review
60
Time OutDavid EhrlichJul 8, 2015
Rudd’s affable wit makes him a perfect choice for the part. But his performance is uncharacteristically inhibited, as if he felt there was too much at stake to try something new. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyJul 8, 2015
Although the story dynamics are fundamentally silly and the family stuff, with its parallel father-daughter melodrama, is elemental button-pushing, a good cast led by a winning Paul Rudd puts the nonsense over in reasonably disarming fashion. Read full review
58
The PlaylistRodrigo PerezJul 8, 2015
Size may not matter in this diminutive story, but the film's slight, disposable quality hardly qualifies it as an essential tale to astonish. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTy BurrJul 16, 2015
The movie’s OK, nothing more. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperJul 15, 2015
This is a lightweight, cliché-riddled origins story that veers between inside-joke comedy, ponderous redemption story lines and admittedly nifty CGI sequences that still seem relatively insignificant compared to the high stakes and city-shattering destruction that take place in most of the “Avengers” movies. Read full review
50
Screen DailyTim GriersonJul 8, 2015
Jokey rather than funny, and a bit forced when it’s trying to be sincere, Ant-Man has plenty of enthusiasm but not a lot of inspiration. Read full review
40
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternJul 16, 2015
Mr. Rudd, whose overall performance as the former con-man Scott Lang is fairly pallid, confines himself to genial winks and nods in a film that will surely be popular, given Marvel’s marketing might, but one that’s woefully short on coherence and originality. Read full review
40
The GuardianCatherine ShoardJul 8, 2015
Ant-Man is a cut-and-shut muddle, haunted by a ghost, produced by a high-end hot dog factory, by turns giddying and stupefying. Watching it is like channel-surfing between "Hot Fuzz", a duff early 90s Michael Douglas drama and the very schlockiest bits of "Interstellar". Read full review
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