In the Marvel Universe's latest incarnation of Spider-Man on the big screen, they may have finally done him justice. Spider-Man: Homecoming may stray from strict interpretation of the original origin story, but it captures all the teenage insecurity of Peter Parker the comic book character.
Peter (Tom Holland) is fresh off his adventure from Captain America: Civil War and currently on his Spider-Man "internship" courtesy of Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.), chaperoned by Happy Hogan (Jon Favreau). At the same time, Peter is juggling his schoolwork at a high school for gifted students and a major crush on Liz (Laura Harrier), a high school senior.
While getting a bit bored with being a friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, Peter espies a strange transaction taking place with extraterrestrial overtones. It's a ring of black market weapon dealers led by a disgruntled former government contractor (Michael Keaton), who in mechanical winged form transforms into a classic Spidey nemesis, the Vulture. It provides a stimulating challenge and then some for the teen wall-crawler, and major headaches for Stark, Hogan, and his Aunt May (Marisa Tomei).
Full of good humor, very good ensemble acting including the teen performers, and exciting action sequences, this is probably is the best Spider-Man film version other than Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 2. Some may find a major plot twist a little too convenient, but it does set up several tense scenes with terrific acting exchanges between Holland and Keaton.
Though it suffers from the usual Marvel movie flaw of being too long, Spider-Man: Homecoming otherwise delivers the right tone of confusion, humor, and heroism in the Peter Parker character. With a young Holland as a foundation, this could set up another big superhero franchise.
Stamp of approval, B+.
Columbia Pictures presents Spider-Man: Homecoming, a film by Jon Watts, starring Tom Holland, Michael Keaton, Marisa Tomei, Robert Downey, Jr., Jon Favreau, Zendaya, and Donald Glover. Length: 2 hours 13 minutes. Rated PG-13 for sci-fi violence and language. In wide release as of 7/7/17.
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