We got our first glimpse of the rebooted / re imagined (fill in your own Hollywood bullshit term here)
web slinger in Captain America Civil War. Tom Holland's Spidey was on point, but his Peter Parker was a bit off. Thankfully though, Holland's performance in Homecoming is nothing less than stellar! In fact, his Peter Parker is leaps and bounds ahead of his Spidey!
Plot wise, Homecoming is a bit on the standard side. Hero coming of age type deal, fattened up with short appearances from Iron-Man / Tony Stark. Throw in Michael Keaton as the Vulture and you have a movie that entertains when and where it should but ultimately falls down with too much meandering exposition and scenes that seem to drag on for an eternity.
While audiences won't have to endure another origin story, the movie still drags it's heels and takes, what feels like an eternity to get going. When it does get going, it's fantastic. Some top notch set pieces (tragically given away in the 10 billion trailers and clips that were released) abound and are genuinely spectacular to watch.
The humor Marvel fans have come to love is here too with Parker's best friend, Ned (Jacob Batalon) providing much of the hilarity. And yes, there's plenty of visual gags and little "blink and you'll miss them" nods throughout.
The aforementioned Tom Holland plays a blinder, and I do wonder about Robert Downey Jr. Nobody plays Tony Stark better, but he seems just here for the sake of it, in case Holland wasn't able to carry the movie on his shoulders. And carry it he does! Michael Keaton, channeling some Birdman is fantastic as The Vulture. Genuinely one of the best things about the movie and outside of Loki, is certainly the most interesting Marvel big screen villain to date.
Overall, far from a disaster, Spider-Man Homecoming does entertain, but it's bogged down with scenes that drag you back out of the web it does such a good job of capturing you with (enough of the spidey puns)
Worth a watch! Just!!!
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