Film of the year about the importance of making up up with mistakes. A spectacular conclusion to a new trilogy about a friendly neighbor that will delight fans.
The life of Peter Parker (Tom Holland) has turned from a fairy tale into a nightmare: the whole world has found out who is hiding under the guise of Spider-Man, and because of Mysterio's deception, people think that the young Avenger can be dangerous. His friends also suffer from the hero's reputation: MJ (Zendea) and Ned (Jacob Batalon) are not accepted into college, Aunt May (Marisa Tomei) is tortured by the paparazzi, and Happy (Jon Favreau) is at the center of a federal investigation. To atone for his guilt, Parker goes to Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and asks him to perform the rite of oblivion, after which everyone in the world will forget about the events of the last days. By interrupting the spell a couple of times, Peter thereby violates the space-time continuum, and villains from all corners of the multiverse flock to New York who want to get even with Spider-Man.
Rarely is a film released that can rally audiences as much as No Way Home is likely to do. In recent years, experts as one repeated about the death of the film distribution, but the final part of the spider trilogy is restoring justice to the industry and returning a large audience to the halls (even if for a couple of weekends). The key to this phenomenon lies not only in the fanbase: the superhero John Watts summarizes not only the events of the new reboot, but also the two previous episodes about Peter Parker, thereby forcing the audience to breathe, laugh and cry in a single impulse. Some will find here malicious speculation on fan service, others - a tribute to the canon. The truth, of course, is somewhere nearby, and you don't need to have a spider's instinct to get to it.
There are really a lot of local jokes, references and characters in No Way Home. But at the same time, around the two previous incarnations of the Spider in particular and the giant Marvel Universe in general, such an impressive cult has formed that there seems to be no one left among potential viewers who would not know about the meme "I am a kind of scientist myself," the eternal debate about the best Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire, of course!) and other fan get-togethers. Over the course of a couple of decades, a small cohort of geeks has grown into a whole army of connoisseurs of comics, films and TV series. That is why the new "Spider" should be watched in the audience, catching groans and sighs, clapping and stamping feet - in other words, sharing a unique theatrical experience with other viewers who also carried Peter Parker with them from youth to adolescence and, finally, to maturity ...
And yet, in No Way Home, it's not hard to spot some annoying loyalty to the public. What you most expect before watching will happen exactly on screen - no deception or sleight of hand. The audience here is in awe of not “what will happen”, but “when it will happen”. In this story, everything is clear in advance, even from the stage of the first releases and Internet leaks: "No Way Home" is a touching but manipulative tribute in every minute that tries to simultaneously please the audience and move the stagnant Spider Holland off the ground (so that they said, of all three Parkers, this one is the most static, and in the finale of the trilogy he really needed a shake-up).
The third part, of course, can be called a cute valentine to all the Spider franchises, but it lacks the main thing - the visual excitement, the magic of cinema that made Raimi's trilogy and Webb's dilogy so memorable. For a film that seemingly absorbs the best from each of the parts, it was filmed outrageously simple: neither you cunning editing from the 00s, nor spectacular flights from the series with Garfield - rather a concentrated Marvel, where action scenes are outsourced to graphic masters. The best visual finds of "No Way Home" are those involving Doctor Strange, and all these episodes, reminiscent of the teaser for the future "Multiverse of Madness", capture much more spidery battles with the Sinister Six.
In this sense, "No Way Home" is likely to repeat the fate of another popular hit - "Avengers: Endgame". The end of the saga about a team of superheroes became one of the highest-grossing films in history, broke records in discussions on forums, but after a few months and a couple of new parts of the Marvel Universe, it felt like it had sunk into oblivion, remaining an important, but still an episode of a giant series ... The third "Spider-Man" is also an intermediate movie, connecting, say, the new "Doctor Strange", the sequel to "Venom" and other important offshoots of the franchise. The uniqueness of events is lost when you realize that they are only an insignificant part in the giant cinematic comic universe.
However, something still prevents Watts' film from finally getting bogged down in the epic of sequels, prequels and meta-sequels. "Spider-Man: No Way Home" - the movie, despite all its gloomy tone (prepare scarves - you will have to cry here often), is truly New Year's. And it tells, in essence, the same things as the previous series: in the case of young Parker Holland - about growing up, responsibility that fell out of nowhere, and more importantly, the victory over his own infantilism. Peter must accept his imperfection, come to terms with the trauma of the past, and start living in a new way. The spell of eternal oblivion, and with it Christmas in the finale, beautifully frame the entire spider universe: restart failures will be forgotten, old mistakes will be corrected, and only good things will remain in memory. When could this have happened, if not on a holiday that marks a change of times and a new beginning?
This article was sponsored by Ed Ammerlaan
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