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Spider-Man:Homecoming Review *SPOILER FREE*




Spider-Man: Homecoming was directed by Jon Watts and stars Tom Holland, Michael Keaton, Marisa Tomei, Jon Favreau, Robert Downey Jr, Jacob Batalon and Civil War and is the story of Peter Parker learning to become Spider-Man. I am a huge Spider-Man fan, I loved the first two Sam Raimi films. Spider-Man 2 being one of the most important films I have seen. It was after Spider-Man 2 I wanted to start watching movies and learning as much as I could. So this was a movie that I was really excited to see but it had a lot of expectations to meet in my eyes. After seeing this movie, most of my expectations were met but a few were not. This was a really fun movie and one that I enjoyed a lot. I just found this movie to be a little underwhelming.

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But first let's take a look at the positives:

1. Tone- This was a true Spider-Man movie at it's core. I loved seeing the adolescent Peter Parker trying to navigate being a superhero, navigate his love life and his schooling. It was so reminiscent of the old comics and old cartoons. It was really awesome. I was completely satisfied with this aspect of the movie. It was so much fun to see the comic book character truly come to life.

2. Casting- The casting of this movie was tremendous. I don't think there was a character that was cast incorrectly. Especially Michael Keaton as The Vulture. I honestly think he was one of the best villains the MCU has had. Marisa Tomei was awesome as Aunt May and I think Tom Holland really embodied Peter Parker. I have absolutely no complaints about the casting of this movie.

3. Fun- This movie was genuinely funny and entertaining. There were a lot of scenes that made me laugh and I had a smile on my face for the majority of the movie. It was just all around a pretty entertaining movie. The comedy worked, the score was great and it had some pretty exciting actions sequences.








This was not a perfect movie:

1. Pacing- While most of this movie was pretty fun and exciting it had really long stretches where not much happened. It was a pretty long movie and you can feel every second of it. I felt like there was not a lot of clear ideas of how to progress the story. It was really disappointing to see this happen to a movie that had so much going for it.

 2. Tony Stark's Scenes- I really felt like these scenes were tacked on. I honestly didn't think there was any good chemistry between the characters. It felt like Robert Downey Jr was really phoning it in. I didn't like them and they felt kind of out of place.

3. No sense of urgency- This was something I had to think a lot about. This movie had virtually no sense of urgency. I never felt like Peter was going to lose and I never felt super engaged or involved in the events happening. This hurt the movie quite a bit. While the actions scenes were really fun they just never hit the high point they could've because I wasn't emotionally attached to them. They were just entertaining, not engaging.

Overall, I had a pretty good time with Spider-Man: Homecoming. It had a pretty fun plot and really embodied the tone of the Spider-Man Comics. That being said, the pacing and lack of urgency in the film really let me town. I recommend you go see Spider-Man: Homecoming because it was a genuinely good film it just could've improved in some areas. I am going to give Spider-Man: Homecoming a B.

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