Ant-Man is the newest film to inhabit the Marvel universe that’s been dominating the superhero market this last decade or so, and it’s a refreshing change from the formula.

It’s constantly entertaining, surprisingly funny and the script is absolutely brilliant. It plays out more like a heist movie than a regular comic-book film. You could draw comparisons to The Green Hornet, another superhero film that was infused with comedy and entrusted to a crew outside of the regular hollywood sphere.

The Green Hornet is widely considered to be a commercial flop, as this movie could be too when you look at it’s lacklustre opening weekend takings, but that doesn’t mean it was a bad film. With Ant-Man that’s even more so. I really think they nailed the tone to this film and it works start to finish. I hope that there’s a groundswell of audience support while this film is out at the cinema.

Edgar Wright, the director of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, acquired the rights to the script back in 2006 and wrote multiple drafts with his co-writer Joe Cornish, director of Attack the Block, over the 8 years following.

Even though those two pulled out of the development in the months preceding production, it still bares all the signs of an Edgar Wright film and that’s because when Adam Mckay, Will Ferrell’s long-time collaborator, and Paul Rudd stepped in to finalise the script, they were more focused on fitting the story into the pre-established Marvel universe than taking it away from the one that Wright and Cornish had created.

-Nathan Kearney