It's an absolute win in my books... in some ways better than "Homecoming" as this sequel explores the relationships between the characters even more especially MJ (which fans were groaning was not the MJ they wanted).
I am not familiar with the comic book source of Mysterio, but the first half of the movie, the villain was "meh" and I thought "no wonder fans are upset".... but then the twist came along

And it all made sense... I have to admit I didn't actual watch all the trailers to keep the surprises
To me this is yes, another 'typical' Marvel film but an absolute blast from start to finish. This feels like a somewhat light hearted epilogue to Endgame, and it worked.
Jake Gyllenhaal delivered a stellar performance as expected along with Tom Holland and Zendaya.
I watched it while lying down on comfy sofa (GSC Gold Class) and didn't even feel the 2 hours+ go by.

Didn't feel any sort of pacing issues and was just hooked from the beginning.
It was hilarious, it had tender moments and a nice tribute to Iron Man. The whole EDITH thing is pretty cool too.
The mid-credits was great (another what the f--- moment) and the post-credits (expected it to be a funny tidbit) was nice as well.
To top it all off... I did comment on wanting to bring back a certain character in this topic goodness knows when... a character WE ALL LOVED from the Tobey Maguire days. This is akin to
bringing back Judi Dench as 'M' in the Daniel Craig era of Bond films!!!
When I saw that, I was just SUPER excited! I could not believe it.
They could have
easily.... easily skewed the character towards a 'new' direction since this is Tom Holland era Spidey BUT THEY DID NOT! They kept his character just like we knew him from years ago. He could even have cameod as another character. Thank you Marvel!
To me this is one of the strongest sequels from the MCU era, here's hoping the final part of the 'Homecoming' trilogy delivers.
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This post has been edited by defaultname365: Jul 7 2019, 01:19 PM