As an avid Marvel movie fan, I’ve been keeping track of the latest movies and TV series.
Not only does it help keep me ahead of where the storyline is headed, but it helps tie in multiple references to further the story along.
This film works on tying up all the loose ends from at least three other Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) projects including “Loki,” “WandaVision,” and “Venom: Let There be Carnage.”
Mostly, I have a little bit of a love/hate relationship with this film, but it isn’t the worst MCU film I’ve ever seen.
Spider-Man: No Way Home is a superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man, co-produced by Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing.
It is the sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) and Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), and is the 27th film in the MCU.
The film is rated PG-13 for sequences of action/violence, some language, and brief suggestive comments and is 148 minutes long.
The film is directed by Jon Watts and written by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers, and stars Tom Holland, Zendaya, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jacob Batalon, Jon Favreau, Jamie Foxx, Willem Dafoe, Alfred Molina, Benedict Wong, Tony Revolori, Thomas Church, Rhys Ifans, Marisa Tomei, Andrew Garfield, Jake Gyllenhaal, Charlie Cox, and Tobey Maguire.
After Quentin Beck (Gyllenhaal) posthumously frames Peter Parker (Holland) for murder and reveals his identity as Spider-Man, Parker, his aunt May (Tomei), girlfriend MJ (Zendaya), and best friend Ned Leeds (Batalon) are interrogated by the Department of Damage Control.
Lawyer Matt Murdock (Cox) gets Parker’s charges dropped, but the group continues to grapple with negative publicity.
After Parker, MJ, and Ned’s MIT applications are rejected, Parker visits the Sanctum Sanctorum to ask for help from Stephen Strange (Cumberbatch), who suggests a spell that would make people forget Parker is Spider-Man.
While Strange casts the spell, Parker requests alterations to allow MJ, Ned, and May to retain their memories.
The interruptions corrupt the spell, but Strange manages to contain it and makes Parker leave.
Parker attempts to convince an MIT administrator to accept MJ and Ned’s applications, but is suddenly attacked by Otto Octavius ( Molina).
Octavius rips Parker’s nanotechnology from his Iron Spider suit, which bonds with his mechanical tentacles and allows Parker to disable them.
As Norman Osborn (Dafoe) appears, Strange captures Octavius and places him in a holding cell in the Sanctum alongside Curt Connors (Ifans).
Strange explains to Parker that the spell summoned people from other parts of the multiverse who know Spider-Man’s identity, and orders Parker, MJ, and Ned to capture the remaining people.
As Parker captures Max Dillon (Foxx) and Flint Marko (Church), Osborn reclaims control of himself from his split Green Goblin personality.
Osborn goes to a F.E.A.S.T. building, where he is treated by May before Parker retrieves him.
While discussing their battles with Spider-Man, the captured villains realize that some of them were pulled from their universes just before their deaths.
Things only get worse from there and Holland’s Parker will have to make some tough decisions to save the world as he knows it.
Overall, the special effects and fight scenes are better on the big screen and as usual wait until all the credits have rolled for those MCU extra snippets.
