Ant-Man and the Wasp: What worked and what needed work

1. A missed opportunity for Hank

Hank develops significantly as part of Ant-Man and the Wasp‘s premise. He no longer actively prevents Hope from becoming a superhero out of fear for her safety. In fact, he supports her choice to take up her mom’s mantle and works with her to bring Janet back.

It was a great payoff after watching Hank spend so much of Ant-Man working to repair his relationship with Hope. However, it also made me wish that we could have seen Hank extend an olive branch to Ava at the end of this film.

Initially, Hank basically writes off her story because he views her father as a traitor. Obviously, his first priority is and should be saving his wife, which means stopping Ava. However, even after Janet saves Ava, Hank doesn’t interact with Ava.

We learn in the post-credits scene that Hank is treating her condition. I wanted to see even just a moment between them onscreen, though, in which Hank could have expressed his sorrow at what she experienced, even if it’s true that he was in no way to blame.

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I appreciated Ava’s relationship with Bill (Laurence Fishburne) because it was well-developed. Their hug at the end was especially poignant, considering she’d barely been able to touch anyone in at least a decade. It would’ve been nice to actually see Ava building her relationship with Hank as well instead of learning about its progression through expository dialogue.