“Spider-Man: No Way Home” Review: The big trouble caused by a little spider

This film review contains a small amount of “Spider-Man: No Way Home” spoilers, please pay attention to readers who have not yet watched the film.

Again, this film review contains a small amount of “Spider-Man: No Way Home” spoilers, please pay attention to readers who have not yet watched the film.

One of the great pleasures of watching MCUs in recent years is that this version of Peter Parker/Spiderman pokes bigger and bigger pieces.

Although the three movie versions of “Spider-Man” all started with Peter Parker’s high school career, the Tom Holland version focuses on the life of Spider-Man’s teenagers the most.

In 2017’s “Spider-Man: Homecoming” and 2019’s “Spider-Man: Heroes’ Expedition”, through the eyes of this Queens teenager, we observed a man who has been tortured by aliens and has experienced superhero melee. world.

Peter is strong enough to fight alongside older superheroes.

But he hasn’t been wise and experienced enough to avoid trouble, and that’s why he has caused troubles again and again.

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In “Spider-Man: No Way Home”, Peter caused the biggest mess so far, but also let the audience enjoy a chaotic and fascinating film.

“Spider-Man: No Way Home” brought Peter’s high school career to an end and also used fan benefits to please the audience.

These fan benefits make it difficult for us to discuss “Spider-Man: No Way Home” without spoilers.

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What we see in the trailer is only the tip of the iceberg, but any details disclosed here will affect the excitement of fans watching the movie.

Ideally, this shouldn’t have too much impact, and the last few days of Peter Parker’s high school career were enough to make a satisfactory film.

However, as a (most of the time interesting, occasionally rough) trilogy finale, “Spider-Man: No Way Home” has many Sony, Marvel Pictures, and enthusiastic fans who don’t want us to talk about it. Things, so we will proceed with care.

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“Spider-Man: No Way Home” starts with Peter Parker’s troubles and immediately follows the end of “Spider-Man: Heroes’ Expedition”.

J. Jonah Jameson (played by J.K. Simmons) planted Mysterio’s attack in London on Spider-Man and announced the true identity of Spider-Man-Peter Parker.

(By the way, this version of J. Jonah Jameson is more like a guy who promotes conspiracy theories on tubing.)

“Spider-Man: No Way Home” continued to advance with this momentum, and Peter Parker suddenly became the most famous teenager in the world. He only had a few minutes to think about how to deal with his future life.

The beginning of the film is filled with wonderful crazy energy. Faced with the sudden coming of the media army, Peter is panicked and can only do his best to take his girlfriend MJ (Zendaya) home.

Then the camera switched to the apartment where Peter and Aunt May (Marisa Tomei) lived. In a series of push-track shots, Peter tried to tell Aunt May the news in person before the news reached the living room.

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The sudden fame brought various consequences to Peter and his friends. Unfortunately, the privacy he lost was not the most serious of them.

Because J. Jonah Jameson spread the falsified video taken by Mysterio, Peter and his friends were regarded as suspects of the terrorist attack.

This allowed them to be interrogated by law enforcement agencies and put their future in crisis. (It turns out that universities do not want to admit people who are said to be righteous police officers or his accomplices.)

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Peter thinks his friend has paid too much for this, so he asks Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) for help. He wants to use magic to make everyone forget that he is Spiderman.

After the kind doctor agreed, Peter started to change his mind again, causing the magic ritual to go wrong, the wrong situation broke the boundary of the universe, and led the first two movie version of Spider-Man’s mortal enemies to the MCU.

These include Norman Osborn/Green Goblin (played by Willem Dafoe) in Sam Raimi’s “Spider-Man” and “Spider-Man 2”, Otto Octavius/Doctor Octopus (Alfred Molina), and Max of “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” directed by Marc Webb Dillon / Electr (Jamie Foxx).

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As for who else will join the film, the background setting of “Spider-Man: No Way Home” leaves room for imagination for the audience.

But the three villains highlighted in the film’s promotional materials are the key to the film’s narrative arc.

After a character-centric and powerful opening, the pace of the script has been slowed down a lot in order to gather the villains of the three generations of Spider-Man.

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Although there are a lot of difficult words about magic and the multiverse in this part, they will not affect the understanding of the plot: Peter messed up.

Now he must clean up the mess and let these bad guys go back and forth wherever they go.

The danger of this kind of plot design is that it is easy to take the initiative by the big scene and let people fall into superficial excitement.

“Spider-Man: No Way Home” did not completely avoid this problem. It could be renamed “Spider-Man: Fun for Fans”.

However, the screenwriters Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers have made praiseworthy efforts to give Peter a more humanistic concern.

According to the original trajectory, these villains will all die in a desperate battle with their respective Spider-Man, but just before the fate of death is about to usher in, they are teleported to this world.

When Peter knew all this, he didn’t want the villains to go back and die.

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He wanted to try to “cure” the mutations of the villains and give them a second chance.

For the MCU Spider-Man, this goal fits his personality very well.

He has always been a noble and innocent person, always stubbornly thinking that he can do a good thing-even when other people have reasonable grounds to say that he might not help.

The three main villains are the perfect reflection of Peter’s altruistic spirit, and each one corresponds to a role prototype.

Electro is a simple villain, his behavior is driven by greed.

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Doctor Octopus was an outstanding role model, but he was corrupted by arrogance.

Norman Osborn, who has a split personality, is both a beacon and a devil.

Willem Dafoe did everything possible in his role, turning into an evil grinning face.

This makes Peter fall into self-doubt, doubting that he adheres to the moral code is a futile thing.

What’s the use of this when faced with a person who is dismissive of morals?

“Spider-Man: No Way Home” is also a stage where MCUs showcase their IP capabilities.

The MCU version of Spider-Man must not only defeat the two predecessors’ greatest enemies, but also “cure” them. What better way to prove that the MCU version of Spider-Man is the “decisive version of Spider-Man”?

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But “Spider-Man: No Way Home” did not discuss a sharp question-can evil be cured?

In addition to the plot, “Spider-Man: No Way Home” also has some visual surprises.

The MCU special effects scene did not disappoint this time. Spider-Man and Doctor Strange staged a dazzling battle of wits in a kaleidoscope-like mirrored space.

But in other times (such as the confrontation between Dr. Octopus and Spider-Man on a congested street in the trailer), the fighting scenes can only be said to be passable.

Some of the fighting scenes in the film are surprisingly brutal. We see Peter, who has taken off his mask, fight in a narrow corridor, and see him falling into a battle that can be compared to “fight till dawn.”

But these very grateful fights balance the light and flamboyant CG special effects very well.

The violence of the action scene is also inseparable from the relatively dark tone of “Spider-Man: No Way Home”.

Tom Holland devoted himself to the role, and there were fewer supporting roles with him than usual, basically his best friend Ned Leeds (Jacob Batalon), his girlfriend MJ, and Aunt May.

In the “Spider-Man: Homecoming” trilogy, the MCU version of Peter has repeatedly fallen into a dilemma, but in the past there would always be an Avengers-level protective net to trap him.

In “Spider-Man: No Way Home”, the protective net has disappeared.

This time, he didn’t have the mentality of Mr. Stark’s obsessive brother, he stood up alone.

However, even the most brilliant highlight of “Spider-Man: No Way Home” cannot get rid of its biggest flaw: this is still a movie subject to other MCU works.

Director Jon Watts has brought some subtle but key features that make the world of the trilogy look more lively and relaxed than other MCU movies, giving the students and teachers of Midtown High School a chance to show off.

But Tony Stark’s presence affected this atmosphere, and he kept keeping Peter away from the more grounded world.

In “Spider-Man: Homecoming”, he played the role of indifferent “surrogate father”, and in “Spider-Man: Heroes’ Expedition”, Peter’s unwillingness to live up to Iron Man’s legacy runs through most of the plot.

Fortunately, Iron Man is not part of “Spider-Man: No Way Home”, and Doctor Strange does not intend to take his place.

But by introducing the first two Spider-Man villains, “Spider-Man: No Way Home” once again continued the somewhat annoying habit of the trilogy-taking other movies as shortcuts, shaping the characters, and handing over all the foreshadowing before the climax Other movies.

This is a trilogy of picking the fruits of others.

In the final analysis, this is the tragedy of Tom Holland’s Spider-Man.

His Peter Parker is too close to perfection, which is heartbreaking.

He is young and sincere, even when things are messed up. His reason is also super sweet, he always wants to do the right thing, even if he often doesn’t know how to do it.

However, he was always lost in something that wanted to devour him alive.

In “Spider-Man: No Way Home”, that thing is called “multiverse.”

But in our universe, he is another victim of the current movie routines.