"With great power there must also come great responsibility."
Hello everyone!
I did too!
Especially since I haven't been overly impressed with the MCU's version of Spider-Man thus far, which I haven't kept a secret.
Listen, Tom Holland is great, I'm sure he is - but somehow the whole origins story when it's a teenager isn't something I go in for anymore, not at this point at least. Maybe it's because I don't feel like it? Or maybe it's just because a lot of it happens in a high school.
And I'm so over high school right now haha.
HOWEVER, that doesn't hold true for this last in the trilogy.
Because DAYUM, okay, everyone was correct! Everyone was definitely right about this one. So now you better make sure we can swing with our netting and communicate with Nick Fury.
Spider-Man: No Way Home is coming to your living room next.
Links to all the previous things I've done with regards to Marvel can be found at the bottom of the page, as always!
Now, if you remember, in Far From Home, at the very end, Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal) decided to oust Spider-Man's identity as Peter Parker, which, as you can imagine, complicates the kid's life quite a bit because, well, he IS still a kid, in senior year at high school.
It becomes so bad that he and his Aunt May need to move in with Happy (Jon Favreau), despite the fact May and Happy break up right at the start of this one (and are so oblivious they learn from the TELEVISION that the kid's got issues).
Of course, it doesn't end there. See, because humanity is stupid as a rule, they believe a hero they ONLY JUST MET (aka Mysterio, who isn't even a hero to begin with), as opposed to, you know, someone who's fought for the world with the Avengers and who's been around for a bit, as THAT makes so much sense, and so MIT denies Peter, MJ (Zendaya) and Peter's best friend Ned, because of controversy.
Peter, being who he is, goes straight to Doctor Strange (Cumberbatch), who has very obviously inherited the guardian role from Iron Man (not that he's happy about it, nor does he have any idea how to even deal with teenagers to begin with, something he comments on when he says there are reasons he NEVER had kids). He begs him to cast a spell which might give MJ and Ned a second chance, but he keeps changing it, which almost causes a disaster.
Strange manages to contain the spell, then learns Peter didn't even think about going the regular route (aka calling MIT), so he chucks him out. Peter then tracks down a lady from administration when ... the bridge is attacked by Dr. Octopus (Alfred Molina who gets told off by the same lady after Peter gets control of the situation).
It turns out that Octo isn't the only one, because Strange managed to nab a lizard person in the sewers, and apparently, there were a few randoms who got yanked into their universe before the previously-mentioned spell could be contained.
Now it's Peter's job to nab them back so they can be sent to their own dimensions; with MJ and Ned helping him from the Sanctorum's basement, he first runs into a guy running on electricity (Jamie Foxx), and then someone made entirely of sand and dirt. He gets both of them to their cells, but the important one in the equation is none other than THE GREEN GOBLIN FROM THE ORIGINAL SPIDER-MAN aka Willem Dafoe, who ends up wandering to May's non-profit, which is where Peter picks him up.
It's also where May tells him that he should want to help them, rather than just send them home to be killed, so Peter and Strange get into it in the Mirror Dimension, which ends with Peter tying Strange up over the Grand Canyon and leaving him there while he goes to do what his aunt asked.
This means bringing all four villains to Happy's apartment (Happy's away, mind), but he only manages to help Molina's octo-character before the Goblin reveals himself once more, and the others break off as well, more than happy to go terrorize the world.
Unfortunately, the Goblin kills Aunt May in the altercation, but she tells Peter that powers bring responsibility - the same thing Iron Man has been harping since he gave the kid the suit.
And if you're wondering "But wait, if the bad guys are here, what about the GOOD guys?"
Well, wonder no more! Ned, with Strange's portal ring that Peter took off him, first finds Andrew Garfield's Spider-man, then Tobey Maguire makes an appearance and I swear, I have never shrieked so much in my entire life (also, Ned's Lola agrees with me because she TOTALLY flirts up Maguire).
Together, they find this universe's Peter, and the three Spideys team up to try and help the villains now running rampant around New York. Not helping is the fact that the Daily Bugle CONTINUOUSLY paints Spider-Man as the villain, which makes even less sense than anything else but, as you do.
With their different tricks in hand, the three Spideys converge on the Statue of Liberty where they lure the villains so they can administer the cures (though not before some hilarious geeking-out, comparisons of epic battles, and the realization that only Holland's Spidey actually knows how to work in a team, because the other guys are lone wolves).
They successfully dose everyone but the Goblin, who sweeps in like a cackling maniac, and while the reunions of all the Spideys with their enemies is touching, Holland's version is still gunning for the Goblin's death - but the other two stop him from doing so, Maguire's actually physically holding the glider so there can be no impaling.
Which results in HIM getting stabbed by the Goblin, but our kid Spidey does in fact take note of this, and injects the Goblin with a cure.
However, even though they've won this battle, the spell intending to send everyone home sort of goes haywire again and rifts appear in the Multiverse, something Strange can't control for very long (oh yeah he pops up mid-battle, annoyed, takes one look at the chaos around the Statue and firmly decides he is NEVER having kids, ever). Peter makes a heartbreaking decision: he asks Strange to cast the original spell which will make everyone forget Peter Parker ever existed, rendering him basically alone.
But as it's the only way, Strange agrees (with tears in his eyes!) and Peter promises MJ and Ned he'll find them.
Everyone returns to their own universe, but when Peter goes to MJ and Ned, he decides that he isn't going to tell them anything - much preferring them happy and at MIT than in any kind of danger because of him. So instead, he moves into an apartment of his own, says goodbye to May (and Happy, in a sad graveyard scene where Happy DOESN'T RECOGNIZE HIMMM), and continues his vigilantism - alone.
THE END
UGH listen. LISTEN.
I couldn't stand the first two movies, but this one, this one tore at my heartstrings, and pandered to all the old Spider-Man fans. There are just SO MANY good moments in this one I can't even begin to enumerate them. Garfield and Maguire deliver, and it's so touching to see the Spideys boost each other's morale, not to mention Garfield's gets some closure when he saves MJ from a fall which probably killed his Gwen.
I mean, come on, SO MANY CALLBACKS. We even get UNCLE BEN MENTIONS, which this version never had, it was just May! And don't forget Tom Hardy's Venom!
There's so much, I can't even begin. All I'm going to say is, this movie is worth sitting through all the previous ones to get here, and I HOPE that Holland comes back for more. I know there are talks about a potential new trilogy, and if it'd go in a similar direction as this last movie, it would definitely be a hit.
10/10 recommend!
xx
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