'Spider-Man: Homecoming' Review: Clever, funny, and true to the Spider-Man spirit!


🌟Spider-Man: Homecoming🌟Review🌟8.7/10🌟

Directed by Jon Watts

Tom Holland stars as Spider-Man, alongside Michael Keaton, Jon Favreau, Zendaya, Donald Glover, Tyne Daly, Marisa Tomei and Robert Downey Jr.

Clever, funny, and true to the Spider-Man spirit, this take on everyone's favorite web-slinger is utterly entertaining. The world was understandably optimstic of yet another Spidey reboot, but in this case, it was definitely the right call. Even more than the Toby Maguire and much more than the Andrew Garfield takes on the wall crawler -- as good as those were -- Spider-Man: Homecoming really captures the tone of the teenage side of it. A large part of that is thanks to the fact that, for the first time on the big screen, Peter is being played by an actual teenager. Holland is believably eager, gawky, and geeky as Peter, who's almost as excited to work on Ned's Lego Death Star as he is to fight the real bad guys. Also, because it's (mercifully) not an origin story, director Jon Watts can get right to the action.

It's not a perfect film; the plot doesn't always have a totally clear trajectory, and there's no real fall-out (other than Tony Stark's punishment, yeah it would break my heart to but that's not the point) for the fact that half of the scrapes Peter/Spidey gets into are, frankly, his own fault. But it's so fresh and relatable that it doesn't matter. It's great to see such a diverse group of teens playing Peter's friends and classmates; in addition to Batalon, Laura Harrier and Zendaya are stand-outs as, respectively, Peter's crush and a short, enigmatic classmate. And Tony and Peter's relationship dynamic brings something new and powerful to the Marvel-verse as well: true mentorship.

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