The Best Spiderman Film Since Sam Raimi's Spiderman 2!

Rating: 9/10 (13 July 2017)

Spiderman Homecoming is a good time at the movies; though it falls a little short of Marvel Studios' past offerings, this Spidey Film is a MASSIVE improvement over Sony's The Amazing Spiderman 2. Homecoming is really a celebration of the character and his 50 + years of Marvel history. If anything, it's frustrating that Spiderman wasn't introduced sooner to the MCU.
I'm just glad that Sony and Disney came to an understanding and agreed to such a remarkable production deal. Now Fox needs to do the same damn thing or else suffer the consequences BIG TIME!
As a film, Homecoming is still a solid Spiderman film and the characters inhabiting the MCU give this Spiderman film life that the previous ones were lacking (The Amazing Spiderman movies in this case). The film is lively, fun and the pacing is just the right amount of laid-back high school drama and high-octane action sequences this movie needed to have. No more repeated origin stories here, no more Uncle-Ben's-death here, just a movie about this universe's already established Spiderman and how he learns to grow up. It's great seeing Marvel's best hero finally arrive home, hence the movie's title; which I don't want to repeat right here.
Tom Holland is fantastic as Spiderman and Peter Parker: for the first time you can believe that THIS guy is both characters. Tobey Maguire mastered the awkward Peter Parker and cool but less-comedic Spiderman. Andrew Garfield was a more charming Parker yet wittier Spidey. Imagine these traits from both Spidermen mixed into Holland's performance and you have a story that balances out the high-school life and superhero life in the one movie nearly perfectly.
Homecoming is a true return to form for Spiderman as one of superhero cinema's most recognisable icons and champions. It suggests a brighter and more open-ended future for the character and doesn't repeat anything needlessly. It's a breeze of a movie that doesn't get too bogged down in teasing anything else besides this: Spiderman's back and he's here to stay.