'Homecoming' frees the audience from another unnecessary origin rehash and frees Peter from the baggage of getting people killed. It's just to say that this is a less of a standalone movie than some of the others in this ranking. Indeed, we've now moved from the 'worst' half of the list to the 'best' half. Also, because 'Far from Home' is the first follow-up to 'Avengers: Endgame,' much of it is interwoven with a larger shared universe. Nevertheless, with seven Spider-Man movies before it, 'Far from Home' chooses to distance itself from some elements of its hero's history. Mary Jane has become Michelle Jones and Sandman has become an Easter egg (along with Hydro-Man and Molten Man, all of whom turn out to be nothing more than elemental holograms). Had Mysterio been the bad guy in 2004 instead of 2019, it feels like the filmmakers or their studio overlords would have chickened out on a look like that. His drone-enhanced mo-cap suit strikes the right balance between a pseudo-realistic and comics-accurate costume, and justifies Mysterio's fishbowl helmet. From its convenient convergence of construction cranes to its conspiracies in improbable train-car hideouts, 'The Amazing Spider-Man' duology is perhaps best summed up by Aunt May actress Sally Field, who said of it: 'You can't put ten pounds of s*** in a five-pound bag.'

Here, Peter Parker is no longer an everyman, but rather the only person on earth whose DNA would allow him to become Spider-Man. Once again, we've got a garbage Goblin, plus a clunky mech Rhino who's as much of a disgrace to the source material as the Silver Samurai was the year before in 'The Wolverine.' Show us Paul Giamatti in a padded onesie, you cowards! Electro lights up Times Square with his blue crackling energy, and while he's basically a glowworm in a hoodie, he's less of an eyesore than the Lizard.Īt least a new screenwriting team contributes some funny dialogue, even as they radically alter the mythos. 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2' is still a mercenary endeavor that gets lost in the setup for a Sinister Six spinoff, which, of course, never happened.

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