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Sep 28, 2019N13m4nd rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
With two full trilogies of 6 movies already out there, one might understandably fear, as I did, that there wouldn’t be anything left for another Spider-Man movie to do. In fact, the only reason I checked this movie out is so that I would understand the references to it in the other Marvel movies. But much to my surprise, Homecoming is a delightful movie which does not feel like overly familiar material. The timeline may be a little confusing, though. Setting the clock back, Peter Parker is back in high school for the third time in recent movies, but fortunately we don’t have to sit through his origin story yet again. As this movie begins, he is already Spider-Man and has helped out the other Marvel heroes in Civil War. Robert Downey Jr. and Jon Favreau have supporting roles as their Iron Man characters, and Marisa Tomei is the new and unusually youthful aunt May. But for me, the stand-out cast member is Michael Keaton, who (since Birdman) is finally getting some of the recognition I’ve always felt he’s deserved. The best scene in this movie has no action or special effects, and instead consists of the smoldering menace in Keaton’s performance as he comes to understand that the high school kid he’s sharing a car ride with is in fact the masked enemy he’s been fighting. But Homecoming does not lack in the Marvel movie trademarks of action and self-aware humor, either. I'm looking forward to more Spider-man movies.