Humanity Hallows Issue 6 Out Now
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By Hassan Irshad
After going through five big screen adaptions with two previous actors, the Spidey suit has finally been passed down to Tom Holland, who had previously donned it in Captain America: Civil War, and now in his own movie, Spider-Man: Homecoming.
Taking place only two months after Civil War, we see Peter Parker making his way as a 15-year-old high school student, whilst simultaneously taking the role of the “friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man” and fighting crime in his spare time.
At school, he spends his time hanging with his close friend Ned (Jacob Batalon), fawning over his love interest Liz (Laura Harrier), practicing with the erudite school decathlon team and embarking on personal science projects, discretely, during lessons, such as creating the fluid for his web shooters.
Outside of school, Parker, as stated before, tackles criminals, prevents murders, gives directions to old women and bombards Happy Hogan (Jon Favreau) with messages and voicemails, pressing to know when he will be summoned by the Avengers once more.
Despite being a fresh start for the renowned character, the film inevitably has its flaws. One in particular is shared by other movies in that its plot is unabashedly revealed in its trailers, as well as many of its funniest moments (though, granted, not all). The film did have a brilliant twist, which was not hinted at in any of its trailers, but the broader storyline could be easily deduced; Peter Parker is Spider-Man (now with an upgraded Iron Man-esque suit), he grows tired of dealing with petty crimes, and after witnessing criminals with alien weaponry robbing some ATMs, he is adamant that he ought to be ‘promoted’ as it were, to a permanent avenger. But his determination gets him into trouble with his mentor Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr) confiscates his suit from him, leaving Parker to improvise with his own devices and intuition in defeating the chief villain, Vulture (Michael Keaton).
However, these flaws hardly detriment the film to a catastrophic degree; the notable moments that were unseen in the trailers did compensate, and, after all, a new (and long awaited) character recently established in the Marvel Cinematic Universe has received their own movie, which was not bad by any measure, and has perhaps ushered in a new generation of superheroes for the franchise, not unlike the X-Men series with its latest release of Logan.
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