Ant-Man

 Released Year: 2015

Directed by Peyton Reed

Casted by:

Paul Rudd as Scott Lang / Ant-Man

Evangeline Lilly as Hope van Dyne / Wasp

Corey Stoll as Darren Cross / Yellowjacket

Michael Douglas as Hank Pym

Bobby Cannavale as Paxton

 Story: 

In 1989, scientist Hank Pym resigns from S.H.I.E.L.D. after discovering that they attempted to replicate his Ant-Man shrinking technology. Pym believes the technology is dangerous and vows to suppress it.

In the present day, Pym’s estranged daughter, Hope van Dyne, and protégé, Darren Cross, have forced him out of his own company. Cross is close to perfecting a shrinking suit of his own, the Yellowjacket, which he shows off to a horrified Pym.

Several months after the events of Avengers: Age of Ultron, well-meaning thief Scott Lang is released from prison. He rejoins his old cellmate, Luis, who tries to recruit Lang into his gang for a burglary, but Lang wants to live an honest life. Lang's ex-wife is engaged to a policeman named Paxton and will not let Lang see his daughter unless Lang provides child support.

Unable to hold down a job due to his criminal record, Lang agrees to Luis' offer. Lang breaks into a house and cracks the safe in the basement, only to find nothing but an old "motorcycle suit" that he takes home. Trying it on and pressing a button on it, he inadvertently shrinks to the size of an insect. Terrified by the experience, he returns the suit, but is arrested on the way out. Pym, the homeowner, visits Lang in jail, posing as a lawyer, and smuggles the suit into Lang's cell to help him break out. Pym manipulated Lang through Luis into stealing the suit as a test, and wants Lang to become the new Ant-Man and steal the Yellowjacket from Cross. Van Dyne has been spying on Cross for Pym, though she still resents her father for not talking about her mother or allowing her to use the suit herself to stop Cross. Pym and van Dyne train Lang to fight and to control ants. They have him steal a device from the Avengers' headquarters, where Lang gets into a fight with Falcon.

Pym tells van Dyne the truth about the death of her mother: she was Pym's counterpart, the Wasp, and sacrificed herself to disable a Russian nuclear missile, in the process disappearing into a subatomic quantum realm. Pym warns Lang he could suffer a similar fate if he overrides his suit's safeguards.

Cross perfects the Yellowjacket suit and invites Pym to the unveiling. Lang, along with his gang and a swarm of flying ants, infiltrates the Pym Technologies building during Cross’ event, sabotages the servers, and plants explosives. When he attempts to steal the Yellowjacket suit, he is trapped by Cross, who had anticipated the theft. Cross, having both the Yellowjacket and Ant-Man suits, sells the technology to Hydra. Lang breaks free of the trap and takes out the Hydra agents. As Cross escapes, the explosives detonates on the chemicals that vaporizes Pym Technologies.

Cross dons the Yellowjacket suit and fights Lang. Lang traps Cross in a bug zapper, but before he can destroy the suit he is arrested by Paxton. Cross takes Lang's daughter hostage to bait Lang. Lang again fights Cross, and shrinks to subatomic size to penetrate Cross' suit and sabotage it. Both Cross and Lang uncontrollably shrink away into the nothingness of the subatomic realm, but Lang perseveres and finds a way to reverse the suit's mechanism, restoring himself to normal size.

In gratitude for Lang's heroism, Paxton covers for Lang to keep him out of prison. Seeing that Lang survived and returned from the quantum realm, Pym wonders if his wife is alive, too. Luis tells Scott that the Avengers are looking for him to join them through an intended tip from Falcon.

In a mid-credits scene, Pym shows van Dyne a prototype of a new Wasp costume, and offers it to her. In a post-credits scene, Wilson and Steve Rogers have Bucky Barnes in their custody. Unable to contact Tony Stark due to "the accords", Wilson states that he knows someone else to contact.

 L² Scored: 8.5/10

L² Comment:

One of the Marvel's hero again~ So happy to watch this movie with a comic fans' friend who understand a lot of the original movie and pointed out some part which is a bit weird of this movie. Haha, for me i've no idea about ant-man, except i saw him appear before in the cartoon version. Overall i like the storyline and i m sure they will put ant-man into Avengers soon... 

Yes Man

Released Year: 2008
Directed by Peyton Reed

Casted by:
Jim Carrey as Carl Allen
Zooey Deschanel as Allison
Bradley Cooper as Peter
Rhys Darby as Norman
Terrence Stamp as Terrence Bundley
Story:

After a divorce with his ex wife, Stephanie, Carl has become withdrawn and preoccupied with his personal life. Carl reject to hang out with his buddy Peter and Rooney in their usual bar where Stephanie will visits, and rather stay at home to watch DVD. Peter even need to drag him out to announce his wedding news to him. But Carl still stick to his "no" words for attending.

One day, Carl met his ex colleagues Nick and he brought him to a motivational talk by Terrence Bundley which later on Carl make a covenant and turn himself from "No Man" to a "Yes Man". It means that Carl has to say YES to every opportunity which came to him. After the talk, Carl was force to fetch a homeless man to Elysian Park which ends up using all his car petrol and phone battery and all his cash in hands. Feeling angry, Carl walk all his way down the hill to buy petrol with his credit card and bump into Allison. Allison loves taking photograph, and she send Carl back to his car with her scooter.

Carl's life change, he say YES to everything, such as open up and fund a tab at their bar with Peter; allowing Rooney to move in; build up a major friendship with his boss Norman; Help Peter's fiancee (Lucy) to throw her a bridal shower' Takes up flying lessons; Bought an expensive mattress; Learn Korean language; Learn guitar; Take part in charity work; Join "PersianWife.dating.com"; Approving all loan applications.

Due to his approval to all the small loans, Carl has help the bank to earn a nice profit and was promoted to work in the management level. While helping Lucy to choose her bridal things, Carl help to rescue a suicide man by persuading him with playing a song with the guitar. Carl also accepted a concert ticket from a promoter and ends up seeing a hilarious concert which the lead singer is Allison. Both of them fall in love and they went photo-shooting while jogging.

Both of them spontaneously fly to Nebraska for a weekend and have lots of fun, when they are avoiding rain, Allison asked Carl to moved in together, Carl paused by say YES to in the end. While buying their fly ticket back, Carl was arrested by FBI. They claimed that Carl is working with the terrorist because he has taken flying lessons, studied Korean, approved a loan to a fertilizer company, met an Iranian mail order bride and bought plane tickets at the last minute to what they deem to be an unlikely holiday destination.

Carl called up Peter who is a lawyer and explain the situation, Allison found out Carl is a YES MAN and was unsure whether the love from Carl is true or just a Yes Man thing. Carl's life takes a turn for the worse and he feel sad about Allison refusing to answer his call. Carl also has to inform Norman about the layoffs and shutdown of branches. Luckily Carl remember Lucy bridal shower in the end which he has forgotten. After the party, Carl received a call from his ex wife Stephanie crying on the phone. When he went over, Stephanie told him that she has broke off with her boyfriend and asked Carl to stay over. But Carl is still thinking about Allison so he said NO and all the bad lucks came.

Carl decided to end his covenant so he went hiding behind Terrence car and Terrence was shock and cause the car to hit in an accident. Terrence then explained that all this is just a motivational talk but not a real covenant. Carl happily went looking for Allison and told her that he does not wanna move in with her but he loves her and win her heart back again.

End of this movie, Carl and Allison are doing a donating charity clothes fund for the homeless by getting all the free clothes from the audience of "YES" talk whom will never say no!!!

L² Scored: 7/10

L² Comment:

Its always fun and exciting in Jim Carrey's comedy film, lotsa lotsa laughter :) When i googled this, i found out Carrey has been doing the bungee jump scene without stunt man, falling on the floor flat by himself which cause him to break 3 ribs bones and speaking korean language and playing the guitar all by himself.

The scene which makes me laugh out a lot is when Jim Carrey say YES to a old lady for sucking him off~ LMAO !!!

This film has won "the best comedy perfomance" for Jim in the MTV awards :) i'm so gonna watch all his film soon~