To say that ‘Spiderman No Way Home’ is one of the most anticipated movies of the year is an understatement.
The rumours and leaks and wannabe sneak peeks of that movie had been flying around over a year, in fact since the production started. Tom Holland, the leaky star of the movie, has disappointed fans this time round for failing to leak. Even his leaking now has become part of the overall acts from the Marvel Studios, as his ‘leaks’ are now paced accordingly. Who else but Marvel can turn leaks into a marketing campaign?
‘Spiderman No Way Home’ is supposed to wrap up the current trilogy that marks the unification of Sony and Marvel. It was also hailed as ‘Spiderman Endgame’, a project that was ambitious and went to places no previous Spiderman movies went to. With all that hype building up, it has a lot to live up to and the pressure is on.
Fast forward to now – ‘Spiderman No Way Home’ just passed 1 billion in box office, not an easy task when we are still living inside an almost 24 months pandemic. I was lucky enough to see this in the cinemas, before I felt to weary to go into any, and I must say it exceeded every bit of my expectations.
Rumours became reality and reality became a spectacular that, as they said, no Spiderman movie had done it before.
The fact that they managed to weave a story together that continued from the previous storyline (literally right after the post credit scene of the last Spiderman movie), while wrapping up the current trilogy story arch, but providing a new start to the next, was nothing but ingenious in my opinion.
Tom Holland has become the current generation token Spiderman. I personally did think there were stupidity in this movie that didn’t make sense at all to me. I mean, a guy who can create his own web shooter and use all the Stark techs to create one new suit after another in the last few years doesn’t know that he could call the University admission office about his enrolment decisions? Come on! He might be inexperience with life, but he got other adults to give him advice – he is literally living with Aunt May and Happy Hogan. They could have provided that advice if he talks to them. I know it needs something to progress with the story, that whole bit as a motivation really did not make sense to me.
Aunt May is one of my favorite and least used characters in this trilogy. It is just refreshing to see a different take of the character, and her relationship with Peter and Happy was always fun to watch. This movie wrapped up her story arch. For me, it was bitter sweet, as it was great to see her kicking some ass and not being a damsel in distress, but then I would like to see more of that character for further development, especially post end of this trilogy, when things were so different.
Doctor Strange’s arch was more of a plot mover. He does what he needs to do and then he fixes what he needs to fix. His fight sequence with Spiderman was exhilarating to watch, but the end for me was unsatisfying. Reducing Magic in the MCU to nothing but Maths’s equations were a bit too rush for me. I know Thor once said, magic on Earth was nothing but science in Asgard, but deconstructing magic into mere mathematical equations were just a bit anti-climatic for me, it took out the wow factor and the exciting mysteries about it.
There are other bits in the movie I was extremely excited and blurted out ‘Oh My God!’ several times in the theatre, but I cannot talk about it without spoiling it for anyone who are still in their spoiler embargo and haven’t seen the movie. But for me it was great to see that certain overdue Spiderman storylines were finally being attended to, and that we have a confirmation that both ‘Spiderman No Way Home’ and ‘Hawkeye’ was sharing the same universe at around the same time. Though it would be cool to have Hawkeye addressing certain things that happened in ‘No Way Home’. Guess sometimes you just can’t have everything.
‘Spiderman No Way Home’ is now in the theatres.
