So yes, I know this review is a week late, alright.
I've been busy.
But I finally got the chance to see Spider-Man: Homecoming, so no more beating around the
bush anymore.
Let's talk about it.
*clip* And as usual, I'm going no spoilers to start
off with and then I'll talk spoilers will full warning, even though most of you have
probably seen this by now.
And look, although I haven't watched any reviews, I've had a whole week to hear about
how everyone is loving this film.
But I was honestly kind of skeptical going into this, what with the trailers giving so
much away, I wasn't really as excited for this as I was for other average MCU movies.
Which, who knows, maybe that made me enjoy this even more, because I loved Spider-Man
Homecoming.
And honestly, I'm really surprised by that.
But this movie was a total blast.
Let's start off with what I liked, first up, the cast.
Tom Holland is officially my favorite Spider-Man and Peter Parker.
By far.
I really enjoyed the last two, but this is definitely the best for me.
He's charming, he's funny, but he also pulls off the regular teenage boy who gets
these amazing powers vibe perfectly.
Unlike with say, an Andrew Garfield, who for the record, I did really like as Peter Parker,
but I didn't really feel like he was a real teenager.
Holland also does a great job of portraying first year of proper Spider-Man-ing Peter
Parker.
Like he takes a little time to figure out when to quip, he messes up a lot, this is
a great opening chapter to this Spider-Man after his introduction in Civil War.
Michael Keaton is really great as the Vulture, and this is one of the best MCU villains I
think we may have ever seen.
He's not just a generic baddie who hates everyone and wants to destroy the world, he
has a backstory and an origin that you understand and can, somewhat empathize with, and he's
actually kind of terrifying when he's in Vulture action.
Then there's Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark, who I wanna say, as usual the performance
by RDJ is great, he's perfect as this character.
But this is the first time that I think I've actually really disliked Tony Stark as a character,
which I think was intentional.
But like with all the other movies, I her people saying, Tony Stark's such a prick,
I was so happy when Captain America beat him up, and I also thought, hey he's not that
bad.
You know, maybe it's all his quips and charm that makes me like him, but I still like him.
But here, for the first time, maybe just because I liked this Peter Parker so much, I was like,
wow, you're really a douchebag, and you're not even charming enough to make me like you.
So I just thought it was interesting that after all this time, this was the one that
made me kind of turn on Tony Stark.
Jacob Batalan is fantastic as Ned, he's one of the funniest parts of the movie and
he never gets annoying, plus, you totally believe his friendship with Peter Parker.
They seem like a totally legitimate real life best friend pairing.
Everyone else kind of has a small role, but everyone does a really good job, from Marisa
Tomei to Jon Favreau, Zendaya, who I'm guessing will come more into play later on in this
world, Tony Revolori, Laura Harrier, Bokeem Woodbine, everyone does a good job.
Even Donald Glover, who isn't in the movie a lot at all, he's great, and his scene
with Spidey was one of the funniest in the movie.
As far as the things you'd expect from this kind of movie, action, visual effects, that's
all amazing.
There are great set pieces in this film, and unlike other superhero movies that have come
out, even ones that I like, there's never a moment in this movie where the visual effects
look fake or overly CG.
Even the craziest stuff looks real, and the action is fun, tense, and really well done.
This movie is also hilarious, from beginning to end.
Easily one of the funniest MCU movies to date, almost no jokes fell flat for me, and I was
not expecting to laugh out loud that many times going into this.
Really, I feel like this is the perfect Spider-Man for 2017.
This feels like an actually realistic modern day version of this character.
The high school feels like an actual high school, like for example this bully seems
like someone who could very easily exist right now.
And also, I have to say, this is the first time I truly relate to Peter Parker.
Like TObey Maguire I never really related to, plus, maybe it was realistic for that
time, but I always kind of saw him as an over-the-top kind of nerd who didn't really exist in
the real world, I could be wrong though.
And Andrew Garfield, a, he looks like a 25 year old supermodel, but again, I didn't really
feel like I could see myself in him.
This however, this is I totally related to.
When Peter goes to a big party for the first time or is talking to girls or gets upset
about messing up a big opportunity or anything like that, I was like, I've been there,
100%.
So that just added an extra layer to my enjoyment of the film and how much I cared about Peter
succeeding.
This also does a great job of mixing the epic MCU action a city's gonna get destroyed
kind of stuff and a more down-to-Earth, Breakfast Club John Hughes-ish movie about the personal
problems a teenage boy faces day to day, and how that kid would react to having these powers.
Also, just wanna say, no origin story here, not even flashback.
Just a quick mention that's more of a set-up for a joke than anything else, great.
Didn't get bogged down by any of that.
I also felt like this did a great job of doing something new with Spider-Man for the most
part.
Both in terms of story, like it's different from this kind of similar story we've seen
5 times over now, but also in terms of action and wall-crawling and swinging and that sort
of stuff.
Like that whole scene on the Washington Monument, that's stuff we've never seen before with
Spidey, and I loved it.
A few other things I liked here, the way this ties into the MCU is great and it does it
in some clever ways, especially involving the villain.
There is a certain time jump though that's gonna give me a reallll headache when I have
to make my MCU chronological order video in a few months.
Also, while this movie is super fun throughout the entire thing, there are a few scenes,
really only two, but still, where I actually felt real emotions, which again, I wasn't
expecting from this kind of super fun Spider-Man movie.
And is something I haven't actually felt in a SPider-Man movie since 2.
And last thing real quick here that I liked, Spider-Man's suit, and all the technology
and the mechanics in it, was super cool, and I can't wait to see more of that explored
in future movies.
Now, as far as what I didn't like, there's barely anything.
Firstly, I'm not gonna blame the movie for this, but like I've said a lot of times,
the marketing for this movie did give away way too much of just like, the general structure
of the story.
And even endings to certain scenes.
Like if I didn't know that Tony Stark was gonna come and save the day with the ferry,
that reveal would've been way cooler and that scene would've been way tenser.
But I'm just gonna blame Sony's not great marketing department for this.
My only three major complaints with the actual film are 1, that opening with Spider-Man making
like a whole vlog, I didn't hate it at all, it made me laugh a few times, but it just
seemed like it was kind of trying a little bit too hard to me.
2, there are a few moments, like two or three in the first half of the film, where Spider-Man
says something to himself for expositional purposes for the audience, and it seemed kind
of unnatural and forced.
Like occasionally he'll be like, oh wow that's the quantum energy gun which makes
photons do this and that, and I'm like, no one would say that to themselves, even
this version of Peter Parker.
And 3 is something that is spoiler-y, so I won't get into ti now, but it involves the
villain.
More on that later.
But overall, Spider-Man Homecoming might be the most fun I've had with an MCU movie
since Guardians of the Galaxy.
I know, Civil War, Doctor Strange, they're all great, but this was such a surprisingly
fun time at the cinema, and the perfect portrayal of Spider-Man on the big screen.
I'd say this is probably my favorite Spider-Man film to date.
I'm gonna give Homecoming a 9.7/10.
So now let's talk some spoilers.
If you somehow haven't seen this movie yet, click off from this video now and come back
when you have.
Alright, you've been warned.
First of all, the end credit scenes.
One shows the Vulture I guess kind of redeeming himself, and also
setting up that guy from Better Call Saul as the next villain, The Scorpion?
Pretty cool, nothing insane, kind of your standard next movie set up.
And then there was the Captain America one, which I imagine would've been hilarious
if it hadn't been spoiled for me before I went in.
Still, it was pretty funny, and I thought the few Captain America cameos throughout
were some of the funniest parts.
The Stan Lee cameo was fun, nothing really special.
That ending with Aunt May was hilarious, really fun way to end this.
And I just wanna say, that and also the joke Ned made about watching porn, I don't know,
something about this just felt slightly tonally different from the other MCU movies, like
this really was genuinely a teen movie.
Like I mentioned before, it was intentional that this really had thematically and tonally
a teen comedy feel, and it absolutely worked.
That thing that I was talking about to do with the villain that I wasn't a huge fan
of, you probably guessed, is that it turns out The Vulture is actually Liz Allen's
dad.
Look, it wasn't terrible, and I get why it was there to add a different dynamic to
the whole final fight, and you know what, that actually worked pretty well for me.
I just really was hoping that we could finally get a villain who isn't connected to Peter
Parker in some way, cuz we've seen that so many times now.
I wanted someone who didn't know his parents, or wasn't his college professor, or whatever,
but who was just a bad person who needed to be stopped.
And hey, you can give him some backstory about a family to make him more interesting, that's
fine.
But the fact that he's Spider-Man's date's father just reminded me of how formulaic the
other SPider-Man movies started to get.
But hey, that's about it as far as that front.
Two more small things before I wrap this up, Tony I guess is back with Pepper now, because
Gwyneth Paltrow wants to be a part of these movies again.
I mean, that's cool….I guess.
It's nice to see them together since they started this universe, but this isn't exactly
a relationship that I'm super invested in, and it seems to break into pieces every other
movie.
But hey, it's nice to have her back.
Oh also, that new suit that he turns down, looks pretty cool, though I think I like his
current one better.
And finally, I really liked that big orchestral version of the Spider-Man theme from the 60s
that played over the opening logo.
That was a great touch.
*clip* So those were my thoughts on Spider-Man Homecoming.
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