"It's Marvel so it's probably good"

Rating: 4/10 (18 July 2017)

I went into this movie thinking it's probably going to be good despite the trailers looking garbage. I figured that it's Marvel so it'll probably be good. This character showed up in Civil War, a Marvel film I really loved. There will be the normal forced Marvel jokes that plagued Doctor Strange but, like Doctor Strange, I'll look past the few awkward jokes and still enjoy the movie as a whole. Well, Spider-Man Homecoming is one of my least favourite Marvel movies.
I know people really dig this movie but I just can't. The way Spider-Man looks is inexcusable as he's jumping around like a cartoon in the most boring web slinging they've ever put to screen. I guess the other movies did it so this one had to ignore it despite it being a great opportunity for some great visuals. Anyway, the CGI was terrible for basically all of the scenes with Spider-man in this Tony Stark suit. He looks like he just isn't there. I know that he didn't look that great in Civil War either but I figured that them not having a suit on set was them trying to keep it a secret or something, I don't know, at very least they should have learnt from their mistake while he was a minor character rather than repeat it in a full length spider- man movie. I don't know how they did it or whether or not CGI was the problem but either way it looked really bad. A Marvel movie should do better. Also that scene of Tony Stark talking to Spider-Man on the building looked horrible. It looked like a bad green screen effect but surely they could get that right, so many other movies nowadays have. Whatever, enough about how the movie looked.
There are things I liked about this movie. I think Robert Downey jr and Tom Holland did great jokes playing their characters and the interactions they had where cool to see. The main thing I really liked about this movie was Michael Keaton's vulture. The movie was really good from the twist all the way to the end of the big end fight. There were less dumb, forced jokes (although Peter Parkers 'computer guy' still had some jokey moments in these scenes) and it was legitimately tense. If it wasn't for this section of the movie I'd have hated it so much more than I did. But then there was everything that followed.
Forced jokes. So many awkward, long, crap jokes. One was literally a poop joke with a toilet flush. Every scene at the very end of this movie was terrible. From the forced and confusing 'MJ' reference to the 'that was a test, right?' line which ruined the moral of the story and the very ending of the movie was just another lame joke ruining what could have been a great moment. The fact that a villain saved this movie for me is something I never thought would happen in a Marvel film. I used the word 'saved' loosely though. I don't want Marvel to keep going down this path of awkward jokes over substance but I'm just some random guy. Everyone loves this so good for them. I've got to play critic and pretend my voice matters though so 4/10.