The Antman
4.4
“Don't bring your wife to see this film.”
“The Antman” is a lovingly-made but sluggish monster-movie parody, done with German-speaking actors on a sparse soundstage standing in for 1950s Mexico. Promising concept is bolstered by colorful performances by Gotz Otto and Lars Rudolph, and the filmmakers have fun with pic’s look, right down to tacky lighting worthy of Roger Corman. But Marc Meyer’s script isn’t fast or funny enough to keep pace with energetic visuals. The first in a projected series of B-movie homages grouped as “Planet B,” the producers might want to call in Joe Dante to supervise the rest, as “Antman” seems unlikely to crawl very far beyond its native borders
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Cast
16 people
Götz Otto
Don José de Alvarez
Known for
The Pillars of the Earth
Iron Sky
Yasmina Filali
Bella Bonita
Known for
Half Past Dead
Christoph Gampl
Christoph Thoke
Marc Meyer
Ingo Ludwig Frenzel
Lars Rudolph
Loco Satano
Known for
Werckmeister Harmonies
Look Who's Back
Timothy Tremper
Alexander Fischerkoesen
Jürgen Michel
Elisabeth Volkmann
El Busto
Known for
Kein Pardon
Veronika Voss
Daniel C Witte
Christoph Gampl Director · Marc Meyer Screenplay Ingo Ludwig Frenzel Composer
Budget $800K · First release February 12, 2002 · Produced in Germany
Box office
Budget
$800,000
Production
TTD Checkpoint Berlin Filmproductions GmbH
Production
Cinemedia
Production
Studio Babelsberg
Production
Germany
Produced in
Languages
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
German
Release dates
Germany · February 12, 2002
Premiere
Germany · January 15, 2003
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Netherlands
January 23, 2003 · International Film Festival Rotterdam
South Korea
July 12, 2003 · Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival
Sweden
September 26, 2003 · Fantastisk Filmfestival Lund
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