![]() ![]() This film picks up some months after Peter Parker’s adventure in Berlin. Tony sent him home for his own safety and with no small amount of guilt for sending a kid into an adult conflict involving super powers. He finished his part of the fight battered and bruised, though still with unbridled enthusiasm to keep going. ![]() Despite the amazing agility, the spectacular speed, and the other gifts Spider-Man brought to the fight, he was only a 14-year-old boy, and the grownups were playing for keeps. Spider-Man (Holland) entered the Marvel Universe via Tony Stark (Downey) blackmailing him into helping fight in Captain America: Civil War. If you’re new to the MCU, the film provides a quick recap to bring viewers up to speed. For what it’s worth, a sequel has been announced already and the headlines are speaking of Spider-Man saving the summer box office. Industrial Light and Magic are doing the visual effects, rather than Sony. ![]() Marvel knows how to use visuals of this medium for their flagship character’s world, and it works better here than in most of their other films, in my opinion. I saw the film in 3D, and rather than give my usual “feh, gimmicky” or “worth it,” I will go so far as to say that Spider-Man should always be viewed in 3D if not 3D IMAX. Spider-Man: Homecoming marks the first film co-created by Sony and Marvel together to bring the character (who has thus far appeared in his own unconnected separate universe in five other films) to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Tom Holland, Michael Keaton, Zendaya, and Jon Favreau, with Marisa Tomei and Robert Downey Jr. ![]()
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