Ant-Man (film)

Ant-Man is a 2009 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. The film was directed by Edgar Wright and co-written by Wright and Cornish. It is the second film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and was released in the United States on August 7, 2009.

The film stars Paul Rudd, Jennifer Connelly, Jason Statham, Cobie Smulders, Steven Yeun, Laurence Fishburne, and Kevin Costner. It was met with praise for its cast, and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects. A sequel, Ant-Man and the Wasp was released on August 17, 2012.

Cast

 * Paul Rudd as Hank Pym/Ant-Man
 * Jennifer Connelly as Janet van Dyne
 * Jason Statham as Tony Masters/Taskmaster
 * Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill
 * Steven Yeun as Chen Lu/Radioactive Man
 * Laurence Fishburne as Bill Foster
 * Kevin Costner as George Clinton

Box office
Ant-Man earned $80.1 million in its opening weekend, debuting at number one. The film went on to gross $225.6 million in North America and $182.9 in foreign countries, coming to a worldwide total of $408.5 million. It was the ninth highest-grossing film of 2009 in the US.

Critical reception
The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 89%, with an average score of 7.3/10, based on 285 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "Ant-Man artfully balances its quirky source material against the blockbuster constraints of the superhero genre, delivering a thoroughly entertaining superhero origin story in the bargain." On Metacritic, the film holds a score of 72 out of 100, based on reviews from 49 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.