{"id":2998,"date":"2022-03-15T15:00:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T21:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=2998"},"modified":"2022-03-01T20:41:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T03:41:51","slug":"movie-spider-man-no-way-home-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/15\/movie-spider-man-no-way-home-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVIE: Spider-Man – No Way Home (2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nYear: 2021
\nRating: PG-13
\nLength: 148 minutes \/ 2.47 hours<\/p>\n

First off, if you haven’t seen this movie yet, I want to warn you that there are spoilers in this review. There’s no way I can talk about this movie freely without divulging key plot points. With this out of the way, I want to recognize that nostalgia played a big part in the hype for this third entry in the Tom Holland Spider-Man<\/em> series. No Way Home<\/em> is the kind of film that I figured could never be made due to all the different rights needed (much like Ready Player One<\/em><\/a> (2018) and all its nerdy references). That Marvel and Sony pulled this off is testament to their ability to make the impossible happen.<\/p>\n

I was glad that this latest reboot of the Spider-Man<\/em> franchise forewent the “origin story” in Homecoming<\/em><\/a> (2017). Little did I know, they’d pull the same trick that Skyfall<\/em> (2012) did with the James Bond franchise by putting the origin story in the third film. However, No Way Home<\/em> had a lot of baggage to carry from the previous Spider-Man<\/em> movies that either fizzled out or failed to be made. Bringing back villains from these previous entries was a genius move, even if it didn’t fully complete the “Sinister Six” grouping that fans would have liked.<\/p>\n

With Marvel’s introduction of the multiverse into their cinematic canon, they primed No Way Home<\/i> to bring all three Spider-Men together to find the redemption they failed to obtain in their respective series. Unfortunately, the one reason I have to take a star away from my review of this movie is that they spend far too much time merely wallowing in nostalgic references. Like, I get it, these Spider-Men want to show how their experiences match, but when they’re literally spending minutes on screen just quipping back-and-forth moments from the previous movies, it got me rolling my eyes and waiting for it to end. Ultimately, though, this was a strong demarcation for the Tom Holland era of the franchise, and a great action-filled movie as well.<\/p>\n

An excellent and well-thought-out cash-in on 20 years of Spider-Man<\/em> nostalgia, I give Spider-Man: No Way Home<\/em> 4.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n

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