Back and better than ever

Rating: 8/10 (27 December 2017)

I was kinda nervous about this one, honestly. I mean, how many times can we reboot this story? Thankfully, Marvel absolutely nailed their first chance at Spidey. The story somehow felt both true to the comics but also updated for a new generation, from the casting to the overall tone. It was fun. It was funny. It was youthful. It was simple. They borrowed heavily from previous Spider-man playbooks: a teenager learning how to be a superhero, which inevitably includes mistakes. The teen movie vibe serves that function well, and the younger actors kill every part. Granted, it is not perfect. The worst moments predictably involve (a) grown-ups talking with grown-ups, (b) action sequences that are muddy/hard to follow, (c) attempts to tie into the broader Marvel cinematic universe. Still, the movie manages to lightly float above all that. It is hard not to cheer for and laugh with this Spider-man.