Review by
Bob Ignizio
Every once
in a while, a mainstream film comes along that seems to please everyone. The
critics give it high grades, general audiences feel like they got their money’s
worth and then some, and even the nit picky fanboys pronounce it acceptable.
And when that happens, there’s always that one critic (well, usually a few more
than one, but you get the idea) who has to be the contrary asshole. Guess it’s
my turn to be that critic with SPIDER-MAN:
HOMECOMING
HOMECOMING thankfully skips the already
twice-depicted-on-film story of how Peter Parker (Tom Holland) became Spider-Man, and instead picks up where we left
the webslinger at the end of CAPTAIN
AMERICA: CIVIL WAR. He’s just helped Tony Stark/Iron Man (Robert Downey
Jr., natch) in his conflict with Captain America, and now thinks he’s ready for
the super hero big leagues.
For Stark,
though, Peter is largely an afterthought as he moves on to other projects and
priorities. He leaves Peter with the fancy new suit he was given in CIVIL WAR, and assigns his personal
assistant Happy Hogan (Jon Favreu) to keep an eye on the kid. It’s a job Hogan
doesn’t take all that seriously, as he’s in the midst of moving all the various
high-tech gadgetry from Avengers Tower to the team’s new HQ.
