One of the great Spider-man films

Rating: 10/10 (14 July 2017)

This movie was great.
I have heard a lot of nit picky things about it and there have been a lot of people saying that this movie isn't as good as Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 2. Firstly, I'm not sure if I agree with that, I recognize the greatness of that film but I felt that Homecoming was more joyful, playful and grounded. My second complaint with that criticism is that this is the FIRST Spider-man movie in this trilogy and not the second. People seem to forget that the first film has to do the heavy lifting to get you invested in these characters and then, ideally the second film can go off and be less restrained by all the setup and just tell a better story (not that that has been the case for most of the MCU movies thus far, Iron Man 2, The Dark World, Age of Ultron).
I thought Tom Holland was great, some people said he sounded whiny, those people are probably a**hats. Jacob Batalon was just incredible all the way through, the scene in the library just caps it off brilliantly.
I loved the echoes of the civil war comic book arc at the end with the Iron-Spider suit and Peter declining the press conference.
I've also seen people complain about setting up future characters and I recognize that we've been burnt by that in the past, but I don't feel that this movie is guilty of the same sins as previous films and I think that some people need to ease up on the post- traumatic-bad-movie-disorder. This movie did not forget to be a good film first as Iron Man 2 did, and all of its character setups were really just playful winks that worked really well for me, as the many winks and easter eggs in the previous MCU movies have in the past.
I don't have a problem with all the MCU people and concepts that get thrown into the movie either, after all, this film takes place in the MCU and adding those things in just makes the world feel like something that we are getting a glimpse of whenever we go see these movies. One of my big complaints the first time I saw The Winter Soldier was that Tony Stark seemed to have no interest in knocking those helicarriers out of the sky, and presumably what's happening is on his radar in some capacity, so he should (not that I wanted him in the movie, but it did take me out of the film a little. In hindsight, it is one of, if not the best MCU movie to date).
All we can do now is hope that Sony doesn't f**k up Venom, of course, it's all but sure that they will.