An actual teenager playing a teenager... What madness

Rating: 7/10 (19 December 2017)

Spider-man Homecoming: the first Spider-man movie to be involved in the larger MCU in collaboration with Sony, it stars Tom Holland as Spider-man and Michael Keaton as the Vulture.
This is the best Spider-man movie in years, probably the second best after Spider-man 2. And that in no small part down the Tom Holland: having an actor the correct age range to be Peter Parker is so refreshing and makes the character way more relatable. Because that's the allure of Spider-man he is a kid with everyday problems who just happens to have super powers, that down to earth style.
Speaking of down to earth, Michael Keaton's villain is more grounded he doesn't want to take over the world; he's just stealing stuff from Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) because he took away his job- there's no sky beam, so thumbs up for that.
And yes Robert Downey Jr. is fun in this movie so is Happy Hogan (Jon Favreau), totally not necessary other than giving Peter a mentor figure but fun nonetheless. Spider-man Homecoming is actually a very funny movie as well Peter's friend Ned (Jacob Batalon) gets some good lines, and I even liked Flash Thompson (Tony Revolori). I liked they changed his character slightly from being a huge muscle bound bully, to a snarky annoying douchebag.
Homecoming also has a lot of downturn moments with Peter just in High School doing everyday things, which might turn of younger viewers because they wanna see Spider-man doing Spider-man things. But these moments can be a lot of fun and gives us more insight to the other side of the Spider-man persona.
I only have a couple of issues with Homecoming. This is a Sony movie so there's quite a bit of product placement in fact the alternative name for Homecoming is Spider-man Go Buy an Audi. They also seem extremely pleased that they are part of the MCU now with just a tad too many references to the wider world, which I get why but becomes a bit of an annoyance at times. And finally the exact same issue I had with Wonder Women, the final fight takes place at night... Again. In fact this fight is even more difficult to work out at times as it takes place in the air with dull flashing lights, and then it moves to a beach in front of an amusement park... Why wasn't the fight inside the amusement park? Isn't that an unwritten law of movies- if there's an amusement park you have a fight scene in it?
Anywho, Spider-man Homecoming is a really enjoyable Spider-man movie with some great performances and it's super awesome that we have an appropriately aged actor playing part, it may sound like a small thing to focus on but it really does impact the role of Spider-man greatly.
I give Spider-man Homecoming a B+.