Film Review “Spider-Man: Homecoming”

Directed by: Jon Watts
Written by: Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley, Jon Watts, Christopher Ford, Chris McKenna, and Erik Sommers

I have been sitting on this film review for some time. To be honest I’m not even sure I want to write this. So I’ve just resorted to presenting this review with bullet points. That’s right I’ve gone full Buzzfeed.

• First time Peter Parker on his first airplane. Says something. I don’t know exactly what tho
• Everyone saying how attractive Aunt May is is annoying
• Happy Hogan, Stark’s point man and Head of Security, and Parker’s contact for Iron Man never listens to him
• He doesn’t get the girl
• Ganke is a Lego nerd and it is awesome
• Peter is bilingual, more of this in movies please
• Donald Glover as the lazies gangster ever, must have been the easiest bucks Glover has ever made
• Film starts: when I was a kid I use to dream cowboys and Indians. I’d say that’s too American. Thinking here of James Baldwin quote, as black person that come to the relaxation at some point that you are the Indian, and as we know from the movies, the Indian always loses.
• The entire plot of the movie is about the working class man losing. He bought trucks, and a crew with families. He could lose his house. Clean up company is partly owned by Tony Stark. So essentially Iron man breaks things and then gets paid by the government to clean it up.
• It’s a film that makes you root for the villain. He states [working class people] build their [rich people’s] roads, fight their wars, but they don’t care about us. People like Stark do whatever they want.

In the next movie I get to be a child soldier, oh boy oh boy!

• Peter Parker is not a “hero”, he freaks out and panics in the face of mortal danger. He is just a kid with amazing powers.
• The villain, apropos name Vulture, swoops in a steals high tech objects from the gov’t and Stark Industry. He was a scavenger before, cleaning up the mess on the side of the road. Empathetic, good villain, good actor.
• Interesting with all the poor people of color he still thinks Bruce Springsteen as the working-man’s artist. Which to me always represented a certain kind of working man i.e. white, a man, and in traditional masculine industries like automotive, logging, or mining.
• An important part of the film is when the relationship and trust between Tony Stark and Peter Parker breaks down due to a supposed mistake on Parker’s part. Iron man calls the FBI but didn’t tell Park that he called the FBI. So the whole ferry thing still on Tony. How is Parker suppose to know that the situation was being handled when Stark and Happy continue to ignore him.
• Peter: “I am nothing without the suit”, Stark: “If you are nothing without the suit then you should not have it”. This would have been unnecessary if Parker built his own suit like he was suppose to.
• Its a real plot conveniences that the father of the girl he likes is his mortal enemy. Sure its comic book cliche but its because its been overdone its doesn’t feel right anymore 
• There are a few interracial couple: Parker and his crush, Ganke and Parker

 NYC public transit is so bad you need to be Spider-man to get to school on time 

Over all Spider-Man: Homecoming is very enjoyable film. In fact I would say its one of Marvel’s best. The Tom Holland is great and likable as Peter Parker. The only bad thing I have to say about Tom Holland is that because he is so young I feel it basically means that Marvel has no future plans to bring Miles Morales into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.