3 Short Paragraphs: Spider-man: Far From Home

2019, Jon Watts (The Onion News Network) - Cinema

Two things. This movie really needs to be billed as a comedy. And, fuck Disney and Sony for breaking up the band. OK three things. That THIS movie was dealt wonderfully with the post-Snappening aka "The Blip". When paired against the ultra morose, foggy and dim view of Manhattan in End Game, this was just icing on the healing cake. If I had one issue is that I don't believe the world could have recovered so quickly, considering the mess we saw in End Game.

The latest adventure of the Night Monkey finds him on another school trip where he has to don the suit and fight evil / protect his classmates; again. Considering that he's well known as a friendly neighbourhood superhero, it wouldn't take much to connect the dots about his two very public non-NYC encounters. Alas, few do. But the hijinx while he does his web swinging thing are played for great comedic effect, and well balanced against the great pathos of Peter dealing with his Iron Man legacy, which to be quite honest, I never really did buy into. He's a 16 year old boy; a genius, but still only a kid. There is no way he is going to don the mantle as The Next Iron Man, whatever that is even supposed to mean. It's not like he was leading the Avengers or anything. Still, the conversations he has with Quentin Beck are poignant, which confused the fuck out of me once the reveal came about.

Meanwhile, what I REALLY liked was the budding MJ v Peter shipping. They are just tooooo cute, but again, I didn't really buy into buff, smart pithy Peter Parker being shy around girls. But when MJ doffed her Daria mask for an endearing confession of affection, I was all in, ahh-shucks-they-are-so-cute!