Spiderman: Homecoming

Spider-man: Homecoming

Dir: Jon Watts

      Cast: Tom Holland, Michael Keaton, Robert Downey Jr., Marissa Tomei, Zendaya,

Laura Harrier, Jacob Batalon

        Spider-man has finally come home to the MCU in this joint venture between
  Sony and Marvel Studios. Newcomer Tom Hollland stars as Peter Parker, a 
  regular teenage boy who lives in Queens, NY with his unusually attractive
  Aunt May (Tomei). By day he goes to school but by night he fights crime as
  the iconic webslinger.

     Acting as the young boy's mentor is billionaire playboy Tony Stark (Downey Jr.)
  who checks on him from time to time and offering him advice. But the eager
  Avenger wannabe soon finds himself in over his head. 

        

      Michael Keaton, whose career is going through a resurgence, plays a salvager 

  named Adrian Toomes who finds alien tech leftover from the battle during 2012's

  The Avengers. When his salvage business gets shut down, he is left with no job.

  The only way he can support his family is by pocketing the alien tech and trades

  it with local criminals. With some spare tech lying around, Adrian becomes

  The Vulture and turns to a life of crime.

  

      Now it's up to Spider man to not only stop The Vulture but to also prove 
  himself worthy of being an Avenger to Tony so that he can hang with them. 
  An unknown director named Jon Watts directs this reboot from Marvel Studios.

   The Good: I liked that it didn't have to retell the same story of Peter getting bit

  by a radioactive spider, it just jumped right in as soon as he got his powers. The

  action scenes were fun to watch along with the funny interactions between Peter

  and his best buddy Ned (Batalon). Making Keaton's character with a blue collar
  background made hist portrayal of the Vulture more relatable than most Marvel
  movie villains. The trailers made this Spider-Man feel very generic but I was
  pleasantly surprised how it turned out in the final product.

  The Bad: Zendaya is pretty much a pointless character who just adds filler to the
  movie with a quip here or there. The decision to change the ethnicities just for 
  diversity's sake didn't sit right with me but somehow it worked without it
  becoming a stereotype. 

  Overall: It's a fresh take on the Spider man character that brings him back to the 

  fold in the MCU. The tone of this movie is a stark contrast to the moody version

  that Andrew Garfield's take lacked. But just as Peter has some growing up to do,

  so does this young franchise. 

Grade: B+ (8.5/10)