![]() ![]() ![]() It was an inevitable shift the mostly contained, relatively small-scale adventure of the first had already expanded with the second more ambitious, MCU-inclusive chapter with slightly diminishing but still immensely satisfying returns. Yet somehow the spell goes awry and universes start to open up, leading to a grand battle between Parker and some familiar villains … It affects not only him but also his friends (a returning Zendaya and Jacob Batalon) and so he asks Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) for a favour, to return to a world where no one knows his secret identity. In No Way Home, JK Simmons’s J Jonah Jameson (previously seen in the Raimi universe as the Daily Bugle editor) is now an Alex Jones type happily spreading the fake news that Peter Parker is a reckless killer to be feared and lambasted. Is Tom Holland’s web-slinger up to the task? The answer is: mostly yes.Īfter the last film (a zippy Eurotrip with a fun turn from Jake Gyllenhaal) ended with a big reveal – that Peter himself was revealed to be Spider-Man to the entire world – the secret life of the high school student was never to be the same. Now after a Covid-afflicted shoot and the postponed release that comes with that, we have Spider-Man: No Way Home, a big-budget tentpole tasked with not only proving that a Spidey threequel can work but that, after a rough year, so can a Marvel film, a company suffering from the rare critical and commercial misfire that was Eternals. ![]()
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