Did I Miss Something?

Rating: 5/10 (28 July 2017)

I must have gone to see a different film because the one I saw was nowhere near as praise worthy as the rave reviews I'm reading. It was an OK film. Nothing more. All the acting was fine with the possible exception of MK who seemed to have dialled it up to eleven in every scene for no good reason. Possibly because his motivations for being the (very weak) baddie were very thinly painted to start off with he felt the need to overact whenever the camera was on him. It felt like Marvel cut any scene a two year old might struggle with. In fact the entire plot is so laughably thin it's a wonder they stretched it to a full movie. I can't work out why it's call Homecoming either as the homecoming party plays no significant role in the film. Nor is there a sense of the character coming home. Unless they just mean it's come back to Marvel.
The semi re-purposing of fight scenes from CA Civil War was initially enjoyable but the video diary motif went on a little too long. The humour was funny but the rhythm of the jokes and one-liners became repetitive and some of the CGI was poor and looked animated. The climax is the usual Marvel 'big thing falls from sky' preceded by lots of nothing we haven't seen before.
The introduction of a computer geek sidekick for Master Parker seemed a pointless addition unless this is in the comics and has been left out by all previous movies. In which case the previous movies made the right choice. The other troublesome introduction is that of the super suit gifted by Tony Stark. It turned spider man into a more bendy Iron Man making his spidy senses more or less redundant.
Overall an OK film that adds nothing new to the Marvel universe and does nothing to push the collective Marvel story forward. If it was a coffee it would be a cappuccino. The absence of plot and character development leave plenty of room for froth but don't expect any substance.