Ant-Man and the Wasp (Peyton Reed, 2018)

More romping in the microverse for cheeky chappie Paul Rudd, this time accompanied on a miniature scale by his love interest from the first film, Evangeline Lilly. The plot, for what it's worth, involves rescuing her mum from the quantum realm, while fighting off an interphasic woman who's trying to get back to the physical world at any cost. But really it's just an excuse for microscopic FX thrills that the makers of the '60s series Land of the Giants would have killed for, punctuated by quipping between the two leads. Unlike almost all of the other recent Marvel adaptations, there's no darkness or depth here: as with the first film, it's decidedly kid-friendly, and so naturally lightweight, but harmless fun nevertheless.

5/10