Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)

This movie is so surreal. There were a few things they did loosey-goosey, but they made a damn good movie. They also finally made Tom Holland feel like a bonafide Spider-man. I’m not gonna lie, the nostalgia factor was like steroids for this rating score. Seeing 3 generations of Spidermen collide is one of the coolest things ever. Into the Spider-verse did it slightly better but these are the spidermen I grew up with. The first Spider-man was the first movie I saw more than once in theatres. The Amazing Spider-man was the first movie I went to a midnight showing for (back when movies actually showed at midnight rather than 3 pm on the Thursday). Tom brought a lot of raw emotion to May’s death. They also made some of the meh characters better like Garfield’s Spiderman and Electro. It does suck Sandman and Lizard got the shaft in this one. I also would have loved Tom Hardy’s venom to be in the mix. I can go on and on about this movie but at the end of the day, I love the celebration of 20 years of Spider-man. I look forward to the new trilogy.

Story - 19%

Characters - 20%

Pacing - 18%

Spectacle - 20%

Entertainment - 19%

Total score: 96%

Grade scale:

90%-100% = must watch

80%-89% = solid, but could be better

70%-79% = Not terrible, watch if the characters or story interests you

60%-69% = only watch for completionist reasons

0%-59% = just skip it, I find the positives and they don't exist here