Sarcastic Movie Review: Spiderman Far from Home

I didn’t want this. I really didn’t. Now don’t get me wrong, I absolutely loved the MCU warts and all but to me a good story is one that ends, whether that be a series a movie a book or the tale of how your wife left you for a garbage man. And the Endgame was that ending I loved it, it bought together ten years of the Marvel cinematic universe to a worthy conclusion. But to me that’s where the Marvel universe should have ended. Now with every additional movie I’m going to keep asking myself if this is the straw that breaks this multi-million dollar camel’s back. See because no matter how amazing a franchise is, the general public will move on to newer shinier things. And all its going to take is one really god awful movie to tarnish the entire reputation of the MCU.

Spiderman Far from Home is not that Movie. Because I absolutely loved this film, it was a fun return to the MCU that bought it back to its roots and established the way forward for the series Now that a lot of the big characters have left or have been sidelined.

The Movie starts showing us how the world is re-aligning itself after the cataclysmic universal population control method that Thanos implemented, that the world has decided on calling the Blip. Okay, hold on their movie, The Blip? That’s the best you could come with. The most devastating single event the world has ever seen and you decided to name it like a rejected loony toons character. 

Fine, in any case we’re not supposed to dwell too long on it. Everything just worked out you see, the world is fine with just some minor age differences. And things just worked out. Let’s move on to more important questions like will peter finally ask MJ out.

Now Tom Holland’s Peter Parker is my favorite cinematic representation of the character by far. Mainly because the Andrew Garfield one was a smart, good looking, skater boy who we were supposed think was a nerd for some reason. And the Toby Maguire peter Parker just made me wonder why a 27 year old man was attending high school.

SPOILERS AHEAD!

But in this one he seems a bit too naïve. And I’ll get to that in a moment, So spoilers ahead I guess. The whole movie revolves around how peter just wants to be left alone, and enjoy his normal life as a teenager. Which made sense until a giant water elemental erupted out of the waters like a reverse toilet in Italy where Peter and his classmates were going on their study trip.

Enter Mysterio, the guy whose character design consists of wearing a fish bowl on his head and just so happens to be the perfect buddy dad stand in that Peter needs. Perhaps a bit too perfect. So Here’s the big twist, Mysterio is the villain. Now this came as no surprise for anyone who’s read the comics, or played the video games or had enough common sense to realize that anyone who dresses like a flamboyant light bulb is slightly unhinged. And he’s using illusion technology, flying roomba’s and ex-stark employs to stage the whole thing including the giant elementals based on different pokemon types so that he can appear to be the next Ironman.

That giant crystal ball did not tell him that was a stupid idea

And I have to say I like the way they slid him into the existing MCU. Super-cutting him and his lackys with scenes from older films was a nice touch. Even his reasoning played well at the beginning which boils down to how the techies and workers who do most of the heavy lifting are often overshadowed by the charismatic front man. i.e. the Jobs and Wozniak conundrum.