After Thanos destroyed half of the universe, the Avengers have been shattered. The riveting conclusion to over 10 years of universe-building will be unveiled on April 26, 2019 when Marvel Studios releases the 22nd installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, “Avengers: Endgame.” Where will you be when the journey ends?
“I’m nothing without the suit,” – Spider-Man INTRODUCTION After the introduction of Peter Parker’s Spider-Man into the MCU, Marvel and Sony teamed up to take on the third iteration of stand-alone Spider-Man movies. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Tom Holland is great as Spider-Man. Let me just start with that. There has never been a Spider-Man who felt funny, young enough to be a kid and both nerdy but charming at the same time. At least not until Holland got the role. Now, I have a hard time picturing anyone else as the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. Even if I can’t remember it, there have been two (cough now three) other Spider-Men in the 21st century. Toby Maguire was the first iteration of Spider-Man then came Andrew Garfield and finally Tom Holland. (Since Holland there has also been a wonderful Spider-Man animated movie called “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” featuring Miles Morales.) As for Peter Parker, Holland really shined in his first solo outing as Spider-Man. PLOT “Spider-Man: Homecoming” is a good movie. It’s fun and witty and it doesn’t take itself too seriously as a superhero film but rather more of a teenage comedy. However, Iron Man’s influence is felt everywhere in the film from his cameos, the Stark Internship, the upgrades to Spider-Man’s suit and even the ending scene where Tony and Pepper get engaged. It felt like Marvel was trying to set up as many elements into this film that they could to ensure that Sony didn’t mess up the character a third time. It paid off but it’s not as rewatchable as most Marvel films. The second half of the movie is pretty boring. Random characters like Donald Glover as Aaron David just show up which could hint at Miles Morales coming to the MCU but it will be a while for that to pay off, I’m sure. Zendaya plays Michelle Jones which seems to be the MCU’s version of MJ but there is still plenty of room to introduce Mary Jane Watson later. I liked Zendaya though. At the end of the film Aunt May knows that Peter is Spider-Man which is just so clever that they did that. WHAT THIS MEANS FOR “ENDGAME” Hopefully no one got too attached to Spider-Man since he was dusted in “Infinity War.” I don’t think he will have a big part in “Endgame” but we will definitely feel the repercussions as that movie leads into “Spider-Man: Far From Home.” STAN LEE CAMEO Stan’s cameo isn’t too memorable. In this film he sticks his head out of the window and yells at Parker like a stereotypical old New York man. It’s funny but that’s all. END CREDITS SCENE Another staple of Marvel films are the after credits scenes. This wasn’t a new thing for films, but it has been a revolutionary concept in that every movie now has scenes during and/or after the credits. There are two pretty lame end-credit scenes. The first one sees Vulture reuniting with Scorpion, although it’s never said that is who he is. The second teaser is just a joke where Captain America teaches the audience about “the importance of patience.” CONCLUSION I’m excited to see more Spider-Man, especially if they are tied more into the MCU. I worry that the deal with Sony however will one day backfire as they are working on multiple Spider-Man spin-off movies. RANKING Every week I plan to rank the movies in order from favorite (#1) to least favorite (#22). While I enjoyed “Spider-Man: Homecoming” a lot, the second half is just so boring, and it really falls flat for me. We’ve seen Spider-Man before. I don’t have any questions on what this hero can or can’t do. For this reason, I gave it the number 11 spot on my ranking.
HOW MANY DAYS TILL “ENDGAME” 41 days till Avengers: Endgame in theatres everywhere on April 26, 2019. [email protected] @GrahamWoodMedia
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