13th June, 2022.
Right, I’ve a confession to make.
When I recorded that intro video, and started writing this post … ?
I had no idea what I was going to watch.
I had a couple of films in mind: but settled on nothing.
Until I looked over what I had in my collection.
You can possibly tell what I went for, can’t you?
Yes: I watched Spider-Man: No Way Home.
I’ve seen a very impressive film.
I’m going to tell you more, tomorrow night.
14th June, 2022.
Spidey’s got problems.
Someone — in the shape of the now gone Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal) — has landed him with a problem: and revealed his real identity as Peter Parker to a stunned world.
Leaving Peter facing charges of murder, MJ and Ned (Zendaya and Jacob Batalon) facing criminal damage charges.
And his beloved Aunt May (Marisa Tomei) staring at the wrong end of child endangerment charges.
It’s only at this point?
That Spidey and friends get help: in the shape of ace lawyer, Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) … who manages to get the charges dropped.
After the dust has settled?
Peter decides he needs help making sure his identity as Spider-Man forgotten.
He needs help from Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch): the world’s most powerful mage.
Except, of course, Peter forgets one little thing.
When you’re asking a mage to cast you a powerful spell … ?
You don’t change the instructions, mid casting.
That could lead to all sorts of trouble …
~≈🕷≈~
Now … what did I make of Spider-Man: No Way Home?
I have to say, I’ve seen a few of the Spiderman movies, over the years.
Including the Sam Raimi directed versions with Tobey Maguire, and the Amazing Spider-man movies with Andrew Garfield.
So … ? Seeing a trailer where their versions of the character turn up, along side Tom Holland’s?
Was going to catch my attention.
I’m a Dr Who fan, don’t forget: multiple versions of the same character turning up in one story is par for the course.
Finding out this movie would have all three Spider-men in it?
Meant I wouldn’t be batting an eye lid about seeing all three actors player all three different versions of the same character.
I was itching to see it, in fact.
The interplay with the three main Spideys was wonderful to see: Tom Holland’s the earnest younger brother, Maguire as the restrained older brother — the cool street pastor, as one throwaway line puts it — and Garfield as the cocky middle brother.
It was wonderfully played.
As was the saddest part of the film: Aunt May’s death, at the hands of the the Green Goblin (Willem Dafoe.)
Alfred Molina’s Doctor Octopus, Jamie Foxx as the sympathetic Electro, Thomas Haden Church as Sandman and Rhys Ifans as Lizard, were all great … and all were outclassed by Dafoe’s carpet chewing performance as the Green Goblin.
In Spider-Man: No Way Home we have a rip-roaring adventure: filled with danger, sadness, excitement …
And a hell of a a lot of heart.
Was Spider-Man: No Way Home a good film? Worth watching? Worth your time? Better than the last superhero film I saw?
Hell yes: go see Spider-Man: No Way Home, folks.
It’s worth you time.
Spider-Man: No Way Home.★★★★
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