Coming Of Age Causes Comic Confusion

Rating: 7/10 (11 July 2017)

Marvel invested a lot in this one, even coming up with Tom Holland, the youngest actor to play Spiderman as a high school student. They loaded the cast with regulars and even gave Stan Lee a credited role. While loading the cast with Keaton, Tomeii, and Downey Junior, they kind of put this edition of Spiderman into a different universe, growing pains. While the script holds together and tells a story, it is a large departure from the comic strip. It is in fact a Comedy. Your friendly neighborhood Spidey gets into action early and often. Iron Man becomes a father figure for him even though the comics never really do that. Stark Industries provides him an Internship and a Spider Suit that is much like Iron Mans. This film is aimed at teenagers. It is the ultimate fantasy in many ways.
It appears Spidey has a love interest, Liz, who is taller than he and Laura Harrier who plays her is absolutely gorgeous, the kind of woman a lot of young men would dream of. Meanwhile we have Zendaya playing Michelle, a curious sort of teen girl who is obvious curious about Peter Parker, even taller than Liz, yet manages to contain herself because Peter ignores her most of the time, spending all his attention on Liz. Then to add to the confusion we have Karen, the seductive voice of Spidey's suit, a seeming siren trying to appeal to his emotions (voiced by Jennifer Connelly).
While this film gets off on a major tangent with the Stark Internship and a couple of clever sequences with the Washington Monument and Staten Island Ferry, plus a little action near Coney Island, it does focus more on teen coming of age than any previous film version.
Michael Keaton's Adrian Toomes / Vulture is a pretty evil bad guy, with lots of help. It is he who accidentally retools the film late by forcing Spidey to prove he is more than Stark's suit and he makes Parker save everybody without it. While this one has a pretty decent soundtrack, the music is more background here than in Marvel's Guardians of The Galaxy 2 last month.
Strange the way this script has so many people finding out that Pater Parker is Spiderman. this could be a very messy one to sequel. That makes sense to me as the trailers I saw at this movie were sequels to movie series I have never seen the first ones too. Maybe the new trend in movies is to re-make box office bombs until they get it right.
What this movie gets right is the entertainment, special effects, and ultimate inspiration to give the viewers what they want, particularly the younger ones. Those who care about script will not like this mess of a script. This one is long on entertainment but does come of age for Parker late in the film as Liz moves away after Parker puts her father away for bad behavior. As if there is not enough people who know that Parker is Spiderman including Aunt May and one of his talkative high school friends, spoiler - Liz's Dad knows too. It is going to be curious how the sequel of this will work, or not.