Sam Noland’s review published on Letterboxd:
For whatever reason, I just never got around to this one back in the summer (I figured I'd finally catch up with it before Captain Marvel), and I actually really liked it. For reasons I'm not quite sure of, I don't really care for the original Ant-Man, but one thing I did appreciate about it was that it made a forthright effort to tell a smaller story (yeah, I know), and it actually added some depth to this larger cinematic universe. It reminds us that, even in this crazy world of heroes and villains, everyone still has to go about their day, and there's an earthiness there that I can really dig on.
The sequel, while admittedly not doing anything terribly different, allows the story to be told a bit more sporadically, and I found it much easier to get invested in their journey. At its best, it's personal, spirited, exciting, refreshingly slight, and joyfully extemporaneous. The incidental humor, generally speaking, breathes a whole lot of life into this world, and I'll never turn that down. At its worst, it's too plot-focused, and has an unbalanced (as well as a little unsympathetic) view of the various antagonists. The jokes don't always land, the action can be a little tiresome, and there's a lot of extraneous background science that doesn't add anything except a few more seconds of runtime. That said, there's also a pathos to this movie (from multiple sources) that I didn't realize I'd been missing, and there are moments of fantastical wonderment that have me excited for where this sub-atomic franchise can go.