Ant Man and the Wasp, directed by Peyton Reed, again, did everything you would expect in a sequel, but everything was very messy, forgettable and underwhelming. Ant Man and the Wasp didn't feel all that necessary to begin with; It strictly feels like a filler film, creating exposition for what's to come. The premise of the film is all over the place, trying to equally divide the importance, resulting in a repetitive, jumbled and cluttered narrative. The plots were extremely silly, while creating a few subplots, and plot holes . Reed and the creative team went for that small scale, light-hearted attempt again, but due to the small amount of tension, with the film being lazily crafted, the story fell flat!

Ant Man and the Wasp had the best potential with developing, and introducing new characters, but due to the terrible writting, this film felt very crowded, and underdeveloped. Surprisingly, Evangeline Lilly as Wasp, was the star of this film! She was allowed a lot more character moments, compared to last time, where she was sidelined, and almost caged-in. Even though she isn't one of the most interesting characters the MCU has to offer, she is an investable character, because of her decently written back story, and motive. Paul Rudd had great potential to be developed nicely, after being introduced in such a likable way, but his character arch of the film, throws off his character for me. His character wasn't written as good as the first film, feeling like there was some conflicting opinions on the screenwriters side. His character was more or less, pushed to the side, to let Evangeline Lilly shine. The favorable, Michael Douglas returns as Hank Pym, but he really doesn't have that much to do in this film; he kind of just stands in the background, throwing his wit out there, here and again. Michael Pena, T.I, and David Dastmalchian return as their respective characters, and they're even worse than the first installment. They don't do much at all; they only cause more plot holes to arise. Abby Ryder Fortson is fine as Cassie, having this beautiful bond with Paul Rudd, while getting a little bit more to do this time around, but she still is strictly used as a plot device. As for the villains of the film, every single one of them are disposable! Laurence Fishburne is such a useless, predictable character, that adds no merit to the film, whatsoever. Walton Goggins runs the same lines as Fishburne, probably having even less to do, being severely underdeveloped. If you were to scratch the both of them, this film would not change. Hannah John-Kamen as Ghost, had a lot of potential, but they took a lot of focus off of her, and tried to equally spread it, so it made her character go brutally underdeveloped. It's sad to say that her character is completely forgettable because, the Ghost character has a lot of cool aspects, that could've been included.

The screenplay by Paul Rudd, Andrew Barrer, Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, and Gabriel Ferrari, was very sloppy! They tried to do what every sequel does, and crank every aspect up a level, but they missed in every category. They tried to be way too smart with the science of everything, creating many plot holes, and stuff that just doesn't add up. The comedy of the film had a few okay moments, but it was really distracting overall, taking away a lot from what could've been captured.

With a film like Ant Man, the opportunity for the action sequences to be great, are extremely high, but this film did not execute on that. Peyton Reed struggled to find a sense of style, creating these just subpar action scenes. The effects of the film were fine for the most part, but there are some moments were you can clearly tell they're using CG or a green screen.

Overall, I feel like it's fair to say that Ant Man and the Wasp is one of, if not, the worst film of the Infinity Saga; completely lacking in every opportunity they had, that was handed to them on a silver platter.