![]() It's extremely ambitious, even admirable, to parse out Parker's coming of age across three solo films and three larger MCU outings. In gift-wrapping so many references, easter eggs, callbacks to prior movies, and teases to the next ones, the heart of the story -the great adulting of Peter Parker -is sometimes muddled. If there's an area in which No Way Home does suffer, it's under the weight of MCU syndrome. You'll have a blast, which is what these things are for, right? Plus, the inevitable Big Boss Battle -the Statue of Liberty showdown-is pure, effervescent spectacle. And, if you were a fan of the past two Spider-Man franchises, you owe it to yourself to see Green Goblin and Doc Ock juiced up with modern-day CGI. ![]() Go all out! The Spider-Man versus Doctor Strange fight teased in the trailers makes for an all-time MCU battle, acid-tripping visuals and all. Do that thing where you stick a straw in a bag of popcorn, hold it up to the butter drizzler, and soak the thing so much that it seeps through the bottom of the bag. If your comfort level is there, No Way Home is absolutely the film to see with loved ones in front of a massive screen. Dafoe, especially, doubles down on his candidacy for the best supervillain performance ever put to film -you may have forgotten that the man can switch from camp to scary-as-shit in seconds. Each one of them seems to laugh and/or cackle just a little bit harder this time around. That may sound like blowing its own past up, but it's in the best way, I promise: Because it looks like Foxx, Alfred Molina, and Willem Dafoe couldn't be happier to play in the Spider-Man sandbox again. The old Spider-Man villains, Jamie Foxx's Electro, especially, roast their character arcs in past films to the point where No Way Home borders on superhero satire. (This is not another Spider-Man 3 emo situation on our hands.) It's actually more wise-cracking than you probably expect, given the apocalyptic vibes of its trailers. If you had any doubt, No Way Home, as a product with MARVEL slapped on top of it, is still funny as heck. The final film in his Spidey trilogy, Tom Holland’s superhero is tasked with growing up in No Way Home. To tell you anything more, plot-wise, would send you hurtling into a spoiler-y minefield. Strange's spell goes wrong, sending Spidey villains from Maguire and Garfield's films (Doc Ock, Green Goblin, Electro, and more) hurtling through the multiverse, and into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Now, you probably already know how the story starts given, again, that the No Way Home hype train has been barreling through our lives for years now but here it is, all the same: After Mysterio reveals Spider-Man's identity to the world, Parker asks Doctor Strange to make people forget it ever happened. And the final film in the trilogy that began with Homecoming, Spider-Man: No Way Home, in theaters now, takes the kid that we first met doing backflips on top of buildings and challenges him to grow up. While Tobey Maguire gave an inspirational dweeb-to-hero journey and Andrew Garfield showed how both hilarious and tragic Parker can be, Holland finally introduced us to the Spider-Man who found joy in just being Spider-Man -a total escape from all of the awkward teenage insecurities. It was then that we knew we had something different in Holland's take on the character. It’s Time to Stop Making Post-Credits Scenes.Marvel Cinematic Universe Movies, Ranked.'Spider-Man: No Way Home' Can't Match Its Own Hype.
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