![]() ![]() Sony has asked critics not to reveal what happens from there (and I won’t), but there really isn’t much to spoil. Needless to say, things are not quite what they seem. So far as Peter is concerned, this is the kind of hero who should be saving the day - not a girl-crazy high school kid who sometimes like to cosplay as his alter-ego around his local neighborhood after school. There are inter-dimensional creatures wreaking havoc across the continent, and Mysterio can focus on stopping them without having to keep one eye on the chiseled dude who keeps moving in on MJ. He goes by the name of Mysterio (Gyllenhaal, who brings the perfect warped energy to the part but isn’t given anywhere to put it), and he arrives just in time to fill the leadership vacuum that formed after Iron Man died and the rest of the Avengers went their separate ways. She needn’t have bothered: The Midtown High students are only in Venice for about five minutes before a giant water monster shows up to flood the piazzas, but a handsome fella with a red cape flies in on a trail of green farts and saves the day. Zendaya has more chemistry with some of the many, many drugs her character takes on HBO’s “Euphoria.” The romantic tension between them tries to thread the needle between teenage awkwardness and canonical belonging, and ends up tying itself into knots of prefab movie nonsense. ![]() MJ (the well-cast but under-utilized Zendaya), is still a morbid and pathologically honest girl whose cleverness doesn’t stop her from squinting through every scene, but she’s become the clear object of Peter’s affection. Peter is still a simpering 16-year-old kid with a big secret (and an even bigger crush), only now he’s struggling to fill the shoes left behind by his late mentor, Tony Stark. This stuff is gold, as returning director Jon Watts displays the same amusing knack for adolescent crises that made 2017’s “Spider-Man: Homecoming” such a refreshing earthbound reboot. ![]() But when the action cuts back to Queens, where the students of Midtown(?) High School are still trying to make sense of the “blip” that tore their world in half with a snap of Thanos’ fingers, that’s when the film really starts digging through the rubble of a mega-franchise that won the championship, lost its stars, and is readying itself for a rebuild season. “Far From Home” begins with what people want to see in a superhero movie: A bearded Jake Gyllenhaal wearing a fishbowl on his head and fighting a giant pile of sand. For all of its frequent charm, the most generous thing you can say about “Far From Home” is that it’s the third-best Spider-Man movie of the last seven months (if “Endgame” counts towards Holland’s contract, then it also counts against him here). Writers Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers spin a lot of web from the veneer of a story, but their script strains belief at every turn, and the jokes are the only part of it that sticks it’s never a good sign when both of a film’s most significant plot points are buried in the closing credits. 'Spider-Man: Far From Home' Earns Strong First Reactions, Critics Buzz Over 'Huge' MCU SurprisesĮmmy Predictions 2021: Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series - Are More Surprises In Store?Ģ021 Emmy Predictions: Who Will Win at the Primetime Emmy Awards? Fans might be appeased by a successful bunt in a long summer of disgraceful strike-outs, but this is still a maddening failure when compared to the remarkable artistry of “Into the Spider-Verse” or the raw pathos of Sam Raimi’s “Spider-Man 2.”įor ‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ to Be an ‘Endgame’ Epilogue, Director Jon Watts Kept Secrets for Years ![]() As a piece of connective tissue in an ever-metastasizing cinematic universe, Tom Holland’s sophomore (solo) outing as Peter Parker does a clever job of closing the door on one phase and nudging it open to another it’s funny and colorful and hinges on some MCU deep-cuts that even the most hardcore fans won’t be able to anticipate.Īs a standalone story, however - another predictable call to action about the burdens of growing up and becoming the person that others believe you can be - it’s a hollow exercise in going through the motions. Don’t be fooled by the title, or the fact that Marvel finally shot a movie outside of Atlanta: “ Spider-Man: Far From Home” is a cute but unadventurous bit of superhero housekeeping that only exists to clean up the cataclysmic mess that “Avengers: Endgame” left behind. ![]()
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