On Par with Deadpool

Rating: 6/10 (12 July 2017)

Spiderman has been through some weird cinematic experiences in the past. I have yet to see the originals so I can't vouch for those, but I can state that Amazing Spiderman 2 is a very bad movie. Not just a bad Spiderman or superhero movie, a bad movie in general. Come Homecoming and all the advertising seemingly giving away too much, and I was skeptical for all the right reasons. Looking back, this movie is fun and funny, but some choices do seem very dumb.
Peter Parker shouldn't be 15, Aunt May shouldn't be hot and attractive, and Iron Man shouldn't be the source of Spiderman's power. This stuff comes naturally to most viewers. The only one I agree with however is the Peter being too young part. Different adaptations mean different ideas, so I can forgive Iron Man's involvement and Aunt May's attractiveness. But Peter is simply too young to be an Avenger in my eyes. The reason the other variations worked is because 1, he was around 17-18, and 2, he had the opportunity to save Uncle Ben, but didn't, and thus learned a hard lesson. Here, Uncle Ben is nowhere to be seen, and is never mentioned.
Also a lot of continuity is fairly bad. Peter just jumps a 10 foot tall fence directly after school, like right after school gets out, then walks away and no one notices. When Peter and his somewhat unhelpful best friend are tracking the Vulture, they do it... on a bus. Just in a bus with a bunch of other schoolkids and no one looks back and notices them using a hologram device with the Spiderman icon on it. There are multiple instances where Peter is just looking at people from a window in the ceiling, sometimes without the mask/hood. No one looks up and sees him, but he's RIGHT THERE! They would see him out of the corner of their eyes!
However many problems that might bring up, you have to remember just how funny this movie is. Lots of great high school humor, lots of great humor in general. There's one joke where two student body students are in a video made for the school announcements, and the video is intentionally made as poorly as possible. That was absolutely hilarious. There's one unintentionally funny reveal halfway through with the best Spiderman villain, objectively. Peter is having the time of his life, he's got his date to homecoming, he's getting good grades, and he walks to his love interest's door... and the villain goes "Hi I'm her dad". You can kinda see it coming, seeing as how the previous scenes show Peter having a good time, and it can't just be all smiles and happiness.
I would compare this to Deadpool as a simple good movie. While this movie has better overall humor than Deadpool, as well as better characters, Deadpool has MUCH better action, as well as meta-humor and Colossus. I would watch this over Deadpool, however this is more of a personal taste. This movie is well worth the price of admission, and is certainly better than the previous 2 Spiderman films.