A coming-of-age superhero comedy...

Rating: 8/10 (17 November 2017)

Spider-Man: Homecoming is a coming-of-age superhero comedy that, while often formulaic, is fast-paced and quirky with just enough suspense to balance it all out. Tom Holland is super charming and perfectly encapsulates the wisecracking jokester persona of Spider-Man and Michael Keaton plays a rather scary and riveting bad guy. I wasn't that much of a fan of the supporting characters, primarily the love interest, Liz. She suffers the same fate as Mary Jane in the Sam Raimi trilogy: She's nothing more but an object for Spider-Man to go after. She's not interesting whatsoever; nothing more than a forced plot device. Zendaya got pushed aside for her? Zendaya's character, Michelle Jones was snarky, off-beat and hilarious and much more likable than Liz. Why wasn't she the love interest?