‘No Way Home’ Reaffirms Spidey As the Heart of the Marvel Universe
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Spider-Man: No Way Home is not only the best Spidey movie, but the best Marvel movie ever.
SPOILER ALERT AHEAD:
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Yes, Tobey McGuire, and Andrew Garfield are in the movie. But what was shocking is how integral to the plot and the character development that ensues after all three Peters meet.
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I don’t want to say much more except that the movie is truly amazing, life affirming, and reaffirms Spider-Man (Peter Parker and Miles Morales) as the beating heart of the Marvel Universe, cinematic or otherwise.
The Wall Street Journal: “At one point in Marvel’s erratic, unshapely but ultimately endearing Spider-Man: No Way Home, Benedict Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange tells Tom Holland’s Peter Parker that “the multiverse is a concept about which we know frighteningly little.”
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Maybe so, but that hasn’t stopped filmmakers from flogging the concept for all it’s worth. Multiverse writing means an anything-goes liberation from the grip of logic. Multiverse scripts are this fragmented era’s corrective to the Aristotelian unities of drama. They are festivals of disunity in which time-travel portals connect any universes you choose, and anyone can show up from the past, present or future on a nanosecond’s notice. Given the infinite possibilities for chaos, it’s remarkable that this sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming and Spider-Man: Far From Home makes any sense at all. Yet it does, emotionally more than narratively. And—big surprise but not a spoiler—the whole convoluted adventure, directed with jaunty humor by Jon Watts, comes to an extravagant action climax that’s most notable for its kind heart.
Entertainment Weekly: “The way that the movie eventually manages to bridge all those multiplicities and pull them into focus feels both obvious and ingenious, though pretty much everything that happens after the 40-minute mark is a spoiler that early title cards and even a recorded pre-show entreaty from the cast beg you not to share. At just under two and a half hours, that leaves a lot on the table. So it’s safer maybe just to say that what seems at first like pure fan service turns out to be some of the best and by far the most meta stuff Marvel has done, tender and funny and a little bit devastating. (There were audible sobs in the theater at an industry screening.) It’s also Holland’s last time in the suit (unless it isn’t); if and when Peter finds his way home, maybe this bigger, broader Spider-Verse will find a new way — or a new form altogether — to take him there.”
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Nuff said.
Spider-Man: No Way Home starring Tom Holland, Zendaya, Andrew Garfield, Tobey Maguire, Alfred Molina, William Dafoe, Jamie Foxx, Marisa Tomei, Jacob Batalon, Thomas Hayden Church, J.K. Simmons, and Benedict Cumberbatch is in theaters everywhere now.
