I will start this by saying, if you are reading this review and have NOT seen this movie yet, please DO NOT read any further until you have seen the film!!
Directed by: Jon Watts
Produced by: Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Stan Lee.
Starring: Tom Holland, Zendeya, Jacob Batalon, Benedict Cumberbatch, Willem Dafoe, Jamie Foxx, Alfed Molina, Charlie Cox, Marisa Tomei, Benedict Wong, Jon Favreau, Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield.
So here, I will begin. I saw this film on the 16th December 2021, and purposely waited a week before writing this, as I have not only been busy working, but I have also been recovering from watching this film, as SO MUCH happened. I have needed some time to recover and analyse the movie, which I may add, I really did enjoy, but there were bits where I felt it could have been better!
The film starts off exactly where it left off in Spider-Man: Far From Home, with no gaps to leave the audience wondering what happened in between, which is what I loved. As Peter struggles with his newfound fame, revealed at the end of Far From Home by Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal), he finds no option but to run from it and try to protect MJ by picking her up and swinging across town via his web shooters. As I have seen this scene a few times since watching it, I have noticed that the CGI could have been improved, but overall, the scene was enjoyable to watch, particularly with the music involved.
Peter then figures out what to do about his new life, and new found fame – where Happy (Jon Favreau) offers his state of the art, highly secured, home for both Peter and Aunt May to stay in, as safety and they hire a lawyer who is none other than Daredevil (Charlie Cox), who assures Peter, Aunt May, and Happy that all charges placed against him have been dropped, after Mysterio tried to frame Peter for killing him, which comes to no evidence to prosecute.
Peter then gets a lightbulb moment when talking to MJ at her work. He visits Doctor Strange to ask him to cast a spell so that everyone forgets who he is, but messes up the spell after deciding he wants a handful of people, including MJ, Ned, Aunt May, and pretty much everyone close to him, to still remember him. This messes up the spell Doctor Strange had just tried to cast. It leads to trouble where Peter discovers villains have slipped through from their reality into his, which include Doc Ock, The Sandman, Electro, and Green Goblin, who have all slipped through their parallel universes, and into Peter’s during the spell Doctor Strange was trying to cast – before Peter messed it up!
Further into the film, Ned and MJ assist Peter in capturing each of these villains, allowing Doctor Strange to then send them back to their own universes. Still, Peter is persuaded by Aunt May to help them, once they discover it is their fate to die fighting Spider-Man but whilst Peter is helping to cleanse them, he gets a spidey sense and figures that Green Goblin (Willem Dafoe) is not all he seems (as he acted on wanting Peter’s help, before he turns), and this is where the other Spidermen come into the scenes, when Ned tries to see Peter, he ends up finding two different Peter Parkers, from different universes’ aka Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield.
Within this stage of the film, they all meet each-other (all three spider-men), and team up to come up with an antidote to inject into each villain to heal them, and allow them to return to their own worlds, without facing their fate of dying, as they would be rid of their evil (That is not meant to sound so, erm, religious – like you see from horror films LOL). Because you have seen No Way Home, if you are reading this, you will understand this scene and how heart-warming it becomes by the end, especially the scene between Doc Ock and the Original Spider-Man (Tobey Maguire).
By the end of the film, everything is wrapped up in a way that aligns with the original comics. Still, I felt sad for Peter (Tom Holland) as he ends up being all alone, after losing those closest to him, when he agrees for Doctor Strange to cast the spell for everyone to forget he is Spider-Man, and send everyone back to their world and to close the multiverse that was breaking through.
It did make me shed a few tears, but after having a week to dwell on the film, I can understand that he has to be alone to keep his two lives separate. Additionally, he asked for that life, so he has to build it again by himself.
I really enjoyed the actions of the film, the plot, and the tenderness between some of the villains and the Peter Parkers of each universe, which was touching. It was definitely a coming-of-age film, with great satisfaction in the character development of Peter Parker as he lives on his own and finds his own feet in the world, while living two lives.
I agree with what I have seen and read online that Sony should create a final film for Andrew Garfield to wrap up his story as Spider-Man in his universe, as I believe he deserves a fitting finale.
Overall, a great film with great action, music, and everything else. Everyone involved did a great job, and despite everyone knowing that Andrew Garfield was going to be in this film, I was still shocked to see him pop up – and I nearly cried when Tobey Maguire showed up, too – as I WAS NOT expecting that!
Great, great movie! And I hope you, yes, you who are reading this, agree with me and enjoy it too. And if you haven’t seen the film yet and have just read through my SPOILER review, then that’s on you – I did warn you.. NOW GO AND WATCH IT. For everyone else, did you enjoy it? Please share your thoughts by leaving a comment below.
For now, I rate this film ……. 5 stars!
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