Ant-Man (Peyton Reed, 2015)

The Marvel production line moves onto its lesser superheroes with a strictly bog-standard offering where the protagonist, in this case Paul Rudd's failed burglar turned self-miniaturising powerhouse, goes through the regulation cycle of saving the world from a loon while getting back access to his daughter. Since most of the heroics occur at microscopic scale, the FX budget was always going to be even more predominant than the norm for the genre, and of course the final showdown, as with the Hulk, Iron Man etc. is with the baddie as a souped-up clone of the hero. One wonders what would happen if they accidentally got each other's nemeses just once. Anyway, the best that can be said is that the premise does allow for some decent visual jokes as things keep on changing size, and that will be quite enough to keep the kids entertained.

5/10