Movie Review: Spider Man – No Way Home

Rating: 4 of 5

Star Cast: Tom Holland, Zendaya, Benedict Cumberbatch, Marisa Tomei

Director: Jon Watts

Those who are coming straight out of ‘Far From Home’ (2019), know how it ended leading Jake Gyllenhaal’s Mysterio revealing “Peter Parker hi Spider-Man” to the whole wide world (and, those who are reading this without watching Far From Home, you deserve this spoiler). The story of this one takes off from the same place as we see Peter, his girlfriend MJ (Zendaya) and Ned (Jacob Batalon) struggling to get into a good college due to being involved in the same controversy killing Mysterio.

Who’s the next probable Avenger, Spidey would go to for help after Iron Man & Captain America are gone? Of course, not Thor! He goes to Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), who surprisingly isn’t Sorcerer Supreme due to some ‘technical issues’. He agrees to cast a spell that would let everyone forget Spidey’s real identity. But, Peter being Peter, messes up the spell opening up a portal for the beings from the multiverse to enter the current timeline. All this chaos lets 5 villains from different timelines, ones we’ve already been through before. How Peter along with his friends will clean the mess is the rest of the story.

Tobey Maguire has all my heart but with every passing film, Tom Holland just keeps proving how Marvel’s decision of passing the baton to him could be for the best. We’ve seen Tom’s contribution to Marvel’s other films and are aware of the range he possesses from being pleasant to poignant in a single scene. Here, his character continues to grow enjoying a stupendous arc tackling emotional trauma, befriending & caring for people from other timelines and more such things which could spoil the magic he creates by just being on screen.

Zendaya, as expected, is still just Spidey’s girlfriend as nothing much is explored for MJ from the last time we saw her. Jacob Batalon’s Ned is also overshadowed by the ‘new more important’ friends of Spidey this time around.

Michael Giacchino continues to marvel in disguise with the symphonic pieces used at just the right moment for maximising their impact. His music beautifully maximises the impact of not a few but many important scenes of the film.