Cast: Tom Holland, Zendaya Coleman, Michael Keaton, Jacob Batalon, Robert Downey Jr.

Director: Jon Watts

Synopsis: Beginning at the main battle of Captain America: Civil War, the sixth instalment of the SpiderMan movies, Peter Parker begins his journey as Tony Stark’s protege. Starting his sophomore year, Peter struggles with making his way as a new superhero and being a teenager. Peter gets wind of the antagonists (Vulture) illegal weapon making, and tries to take this mission on his own all the while his academic career is slipping. Ned Leeds, Peter’s best friend, discovers his secret and helps him on his endeavours, yet is skeptical about him skipping out on school, just like Tony Stark. Tony acts as his father figure, and aids him in the capturing of Vulture.

Review: 

For Spiderman: Homecoming, Marvel took a big step in diversifying their cast and casting M.J (Zendaya Coleman) an African American, as a main character and soon to be love interest. The villain in this movie, however, is another white man with a power complex.Tombs, aka Vulture (Michael Keaton), started his evil decent 8 years prior, cleaning up another one of the Avengers messes. This is the opening scene of the movie and it goes on to explain why and how “Vulture” came to be. Fast forward those 8 years and he has created his own empire in illegal weapon selling, and the main conflict in the movie. This being the main plot line and conflicting with Peter Parker’s, aka Spiderman’s, (Tom Holland) ability to be a kid can really resonate with the audience, assuming the demographic is teenagers.

This story deals with Peter’s sense of what’s right and what’s wrong and doing whatever he can to make right even if everyone thinks he is the one in the wrong. Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) and Ned Leeds (Jacob Batalon) are the only people who believe in him, and these two characters act as a father figure and the best friend. Even though they were both hesitant at first, they help Spiderman in Vulture’s demise. Even though Peter thought he was alone he always had these two on his side, proven in his emotional scene with Tony. In that scene, Tony explains to him how since Peter is so young he can’t go off by himself and save the world, and Tony takes the suit he gave to him away as a punishment. Peter is heartbroken, yet this situation is bittersweet in the sense that Peter is now allowed to be a teenager and focus on school again. He gets back into his grades, gets to take his crush, Liz Toomes, (Laura Harrier) to homecoming, and is Peter Parker once again.

In every good superhero movie, there’s always a plot twist. Upon meeting Liz the night of homecoming, who opens the door other than Vulture, Adrian Toomes, Liz’s dad. Peter is stuck with the choice of forgetting all about his evil plan and being a true teenager, or doing what he thinks is right, and finally taking down Vulture for good. Peter does not choose the latter, and he makes his way to finish this fight for good. Clothed in his old make-shift suit, Spiderman takes down Vultures goons, with the help of Ned, and makes his way to Vulture’s warehouse. Upon arrival, Vulture gives a half hearted monologue in order to buy time for his wings to get enough charge and collapse his warehouse on Peter. This progresses to a heart wrenching scene where Peter thinks back to his scene with Tony, remembering him saying, “If you’re nothing without the suit, you shouldn’t have it.” Peter then rises above the rubble and dust, starting anew and ready to take on Vulture for good.

Overall, this movie is another great coming of age film, and resonates with every audience. The cinematography and effects were phenomenal and almost seamless. It is definitely a new favorite, and will be many others too.

Score: 100% web fluid out of 100%