Is it actually silly?
Edgar Wright has delivered 4 amazing action-comedy movies and one of the funniest TV shows of all time.
He was pretty unceremoniously dropped in favor of the director of the Break Up and Yes Man.
That's not to say that this won't wind up being a good movie, but there is a zero percent chance that Edgar Wright wouldn't have delivered a better movie. Scott Pilgrim's budget was roughly half of ant-mans. We were robbed of a very high budget Edgar Wright movie that probably would have been something very special. So much show that Wheadon said so.
It's also a sign of Kevin Feige's control over the Marvel franchise, and probably speaks to why at 10 movies in I'm starting to feel a very sameyness to all of them (save IM3, which was probably bc Downey Jr is the only person more powerful than Feige).
If the Hollywood reporter story is true and Feige was rewriting the script without the director/writers input 2 weeks prior to shooting beginning, it's a disappointing sign of stifling creativity in favor of making sure this ties in exactly with the mission statement.
It's an action comedy. It is a movie directly in the wheelhouse of every movie Wright has ever made. It's directly comparable to his past works.
Marvel pulled one of my favorite directors off of a project after 7 years of development in order to exert more control over the movie. Feige said the only reason Ant Man is a movie is because of Wright.
Right up until Feige wanted a script re-write weeks before shooting.
I'll likely see the movie at some point, but it will always be a disappointment no matter how watchable the end product is.
