Spider-Man: No Way Home
Reminded me of Avengers: Age of Ultron. Marvel comics is use to turning personal stories into epic events but for me that’s strange for the movies.
It does work better for the design of these Spider-Man movies, simple because spider-man is perfectly design for those personal stories. In this case it was one of the biggest crisis Peter Parker had to face when one of Spider-Man’s biggest enemies J. Jonah Jameson (think about it) reveals to the world that he’s spider-man. The event has Parker taking on personal issues that come with the reveal as Spider-man comes under criminal allocations (forcing him to need a lawyer (wink, wink), and his fame as the web swinging Avenger is divided, by those who love him and those who hate him. All this, not only messing up his life but the lives of those closet to him so he does a Marvel team up with Dr. Strange to change all that.
The results of this team up turn No Way Home into the ultimate Fan film bringing together everything we loved about Spider-Man in Cinema for the last twenty years. In this plot No Way Home was spectacular. They paid homage to everything good about all the Spider-Man movies and poked fun of everything bad about the Spider-Man movies. We got to relive some things in spider-man movies that were not all that good made so much better in this film and things that were sensational in some of the movies were made even more sensational for this movie. Would love to be more detailed about what I’m talking about, but there is far too much story to spoil so I don’t think I can.
I’ll say that No Way Home is an evolution for Spider-Man. We literally get so much Spider-Man, noting that next year will be the characters 60th birthday and it feels like we are getting that anniversary special a year (or few mouths) early. The best part is that as much as I love Tom Holland’s Spider-Man he finally becomes the Spider-Man comic fans have known for the past 60 years in this movie.
The action was exciting, the level of drama was top level. It could have made me laugh more but I loved the fact that they were more concern with showcasing the true type of hero Spider-Man is. I wonder if that has something to do with the fact that even though this film takes place in the Marvel Cinematic universe, it’s obviously from opening credits to end credits not a Disney movie?
Excellent, comic book movie!
