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Spiderman Homecoming Review



What I liked: Of the three attempts at the Spiderman franchise in my life this is the best. My favorite things about Spiderman from his brief appearance in Civil War remained true in this movie too. Spiderman is a doofy highschool kid. He is super excited about having super powers (Ha!) and about getting to be on a super team and shows the remarkable lack of judgement that we all recognize and love in 14 year olds. He loves science bowl and builds a giant lego death star with his best friend and has to get rides everywhere. While other superheroes make appearances it doesn't seem too unreasonable that they don't immediately intervene and save Spiderman from his teenage self. The problems and villians that he faces are bite sized (No he isn't fighting an army of bagel bites and pizza bites, though every teenager I have ever met has all the superpowers necessary to vanquish that particular foe). He is still learning not just how to use his super powers and super suit but also how to act like a hero, which is both endearing and funny. I like that the bad guys are normal bad guys. No one wants to destroy the world (I'm surprised by the number of bad guys who forget that they live in the world ergo they should probably not blow it up) they all want normal things like to be insanely wealthy or build evil hover boards or wear really dumb looking costumes. You know all the things that everyone wants in life. I also like that at the end of the movie, after many epic battles, victories, and highschool parties, Spiderman is still a dweeby kid who isn't very good at being superhero, he has made a lot of progress but clearly still has a long long way to go before he is ready to save the world. Nicely put he is a kid with room to grow.

What I didn't: I didn't like that Spiderman was so dependent on Ironman for the suit. Ironman clearly has far more resources than Spiderman for suit building and making extra suits has clearly never caused him major world threatening crises before but is does seem like Spiderman should be a bit more involved. Or the suit should come with its own stock of web juice. It is just a bit of an odd combination to have to make web juice in chemistry and not get in put in your suit's playlist. I also feel like with Ironman's vast resources he could have invested in an out of office response "Ironman is out of the office until 2020, your message will be delivered before the release of his next sequel." At least then we would know he hadn't changed his number. I have concerns about the amount of suction that can actually be achieved with metal feathers, it just doesn't seem aerodynamically sound. Also I feel like principles of buoyancy were violated by don't know enough about ships to be certain. Other things I don't remember

Who should watch this? Laura. People who like superheroes and people who like bagel bites.

Would I watch it again? Yes, I think it is my favorite of the 2016/2017 Marvel films.

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