‘Ant-Man and the Wasp’ grows into its own, with spirit of childlike fun
When we first see Scott Lang, a.k.a. Ant-Man, in “Ant-Man and the Wasp,” he is crawling on all fours with his daughter Cassie through a maze of cardboard boxes in an Indiana Jones-like adventure, complete with tunnels, Silly String cobwebs, cardboard skeletons and painted string lasers in a quest for buried treasure — an old, cheap trophy.
Escape means a roller-coaster finish, and with this delightful sequence achieved without the aid of computer effects, this “Ant-Man” entry stakes out its own corner of the Marvel Universe sandbox as a throwback to ’80s-style childlike adventure.
Not that there aren’t plenty of impressive modern action sequences made up of X’s and O’s.