Worst Marvel Studios film yet

Rating: 4/10 (15 July 2017)

As a film on its own, this movie was OK. Decent special effects, camera work, writing, etc. As a Marvel Studio's film, with a pre-existing universe, characters, multi-million dollar budget, top name producers, etc. I cannot fathom how this is the end result movie they created. It is a far cry from what it could have been, and even more so from what Spider- Man is.
*Possible minor spoilers*
To start, changing all of the characters simply for the sake of diversity, without regard for how it may affect the quality of the film, is poor filmmaking. A movie is for entertainment. Not a platform for political agenda, and I really wish Hollywood would stop sacrificing film qualtty just so they can check all the political correctness boxes. I have no issues with a diverse film if that is what is required of the story, but in this case it is not. Mary Jane is a red head, period. It's obvious that they selected one of each race for the kids so that they could earn brownie points with the SJW crowd. Although some morons are taking it a step further and have actually complained they "missed one" and that there were no LGBTQ. Side note, if your one of those people, go watch power rangers...they checked all the boxes.
As far as the rest of the film...I think it was more the writing than it was the acting...but Tom Holland came off as annoying, whiny, and overall unconvincing as Spider-Man. I don't know about anyone else, but we've seen the high school Spider-Man thing done over and over. I want to know when we are going to see a darker, battle tested 35 year old Spider- Man. Instead Marvel keeps making them younger and even more annoying.
Watching this movie was like watching an uncensored Disney teen movie special. I really couldn't figure out who this film was supposed to be for. They threw in several curse words and a fairly dark villain to get the pg-13 rating. Meanwhile the majority of the story seems to revolve more around the everyday lives of nerdy teenagers than anything else. But does that sound like something you would want to watch as a grown ass man in your 30's? Of course my 11 and 13 year old liked the movie, and at the same time I question if some of the content was even appropriate for them. In one scene you have a girl mentioning she would "f" Thor.
This movie, could and should have been so much more. But instead Hollywood insists on replacing good filmmaking with political correctness and trying to capture too many audiences in a single film. Now I did have fairly low expectations for this film, but it fell short even of those.