Review:

The first Ant-Man was awful, easily in the bottom tier of the MCU movies (I hated it the most) and this sequel is at least better. The plot is worse, in that we don't really have a coherent story so much as a sequence of events, but at least the "villain" is unique and more fleshed out than Yellow Jacket was. The acting was great except for Scott's entourage of morons who they brought back from the original. TI is not an actor, stop pretending that he is an actor. Michael Peña is not funny and even more annoying that last time. David Dastmalchian I don't really remember from the original atrocity, but here he serves no purpose, just like TI, other than to waste screen time. I really like Paul Rudd and I wish they would give him more to work with other than the same saccharine "I'm doing it for my daughter" cliche. The highlight of the first film was the novel fight scenes with the Pym tech having the characters fight on toy train tracks and such. This time, they don't really play with that other than constant size changes to duck punches and kicks. Ant-Man and the Wasp is still kind of fun, but it's really just a half-assed Ant-Man film. The timeline within the MCU also raises a lot of questions, especially the post-credits scene which really doesn't make sense considering the implication of when it takes place. From what I can tell, this film has no baring on the MCU and is unessential, so unless you really liked Michael Peña and thought, "Man, I wish we saw even more of him!" or you have that infernal "need" to see the whole MCU story (like I do), you can totally skip it. All of the actors are trying their best with what they are given, but the writers clearly don't give half a shit and misunderstood what people enjoyed about the first film.