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NMT: "Spider-Man: Far From Home" Review

Let's set the tone: "Spider-Man: Far From Home-" 4.94/5...

I gave "Spider-Man: Homecoming" a 5/5-

HOWEVER...

I liked "FFH" more; its flaws also made it much more interesting watch, despite the moments I found myself scratching my head.

With that said, I'm going to issue a warning below, because everything under that will contains spoilers. There, I'll explain why I docked this sequel, but it's those juicy, sinful-to-speak-of moments that wound up negating the score.

I'll say the positives though: Tom Holland has awesome emotional range in this movie, Zendaya kills it as this unique version of MJ, and there are a lot of relatable situations to laugh at or feel sobby with.

The fight scenes were very fun to watch, especially knowing that Holland does his own stunts. It was almost like watching the first trilogy of Spider-Man movies for the first time again, where you see all these tricks and flips and spins that shift you off your seat a bit.

In fact, towards the end (the best of fight scenes!), it almost felt like watching a Spider-Man video game (and if you've ever played any of the good ones, you know exactly what I'm talking about).

I'd say one of the best parts of it- that hasn't been covered as much in any other Spider-Man movie- had to be the scene where Spidey had to heavily rely on his Spider-Sense...

I'm not gonna say anything else on that, but let's just say this one scene gave Daredevil a run for his money!

So, if you don't want spoilers, take my score above, and don't continue on- and believe me, they will spoil.

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Great, now that we issued that-

So, not so spoiler-y here, this was prevalent in the first movie too, but one big problem I had with this movie was Spider-Man character's reliance on Tony Stark/Iron Man. It really swashes up the origin of Spider-Man, sorta stripping away that independent attitude Peter Parker's always had as far as being a hero.

Then again, for those who don't know, the Marvel Cinematic Universe is canon, in the sense that it's supposed to (italicized for a reason) exist in its own universe.

In the comics' Marvel Multiverse, the original stories from all of our beloved characters take place on Earth-616. The comics recognize that the Marvel Cinematic Universe does exist (and is therefore canon), and the events that we've seen on Earth take place in what has been officially named, Earth-19999.

So, for those who have ever wondered why the ever-so-famous MCU has gotten away with making movies that stray away from the source material, it's because they can. They're in a whole different universe, so whatever happens there is canon and OK.

Thus, Tony Stark's heavy involvement with Spider-Man in the MCU is also canon and OK, which is why I can't complain so much about it. Plus, it did give us some great acting scenes from Tom Holland when things got emotional.

Speaking of the Multiverse, this movie really almost messed things up! And, when you think about it, it creates this suggestion that it wants to mess things up!

In one of the trailers, Mysterio mentions the Multiverse, and that the Earth in which this movie takes place in is Earth-616.......

That wasn't funny. Because then that would mean that Marvel suddenly decided to forget that eleven years worth of Marvel movies was taking place in another dimension, to preserve the original stories and ideas that most people are familiar with.

Which means, that all of those movies that took place on Earth, were actually poor adaptations of the original stories- if they were really saying that this world is Earth-616!

But, we can breathe, because it turns out that Mysterio was a big liar, and that he made up the whole act of being from another universe.

So then we're good; we're not in 616, and Marvel didn't mess up, right?

Well...yes, but here's the thing: This isn't the first time Earth-616 has been mentioned.

In "Thor: The Dark World" (after watch "Endgame," you realize how much more important this movie was), there's the scene where Erik Selvig is giving a presentation to senior citizens, and it was found that on the chalkboard he was using, "Earth-616" was written on it with a bunch of other pictures and notes surrounding it...

It was never really addressed why it was there, and if it meant anything to this- again- supposedly separate universe?...

Well, those were the negatives. I thought I had a positive that was spoiler-y to, but realized I didn't...

I was going to talk about how J.K. Simmons reprised his role as J. Jonah Jameson, which further construes the idea of what Earth this movie is in, but I realized that people may look the same on another Earth. So, no complaints there....

That's all now. Buh-bye!