By Travis Johnson
Well, here it is – the best part of Captain America: Civil War in his very own movie. The sixth movie to feature the ol’ webhead, in fact, and hopefully a useful corrective to Sony’s abortive and flat-out awful Amazing Spider-Man series.
We’re not getting another origin story, and thank Christ for that, but even so there’s more than a whiff of the familiar to Spider-Man: Homecoming: some of those, like the New York setting (albeit with a DC side-trip here, clearly) and the banter, are integral to the property, and we wouldn’t want to lose them in any case; but some of them – such as Michael Keaton’s generic, dare we say Green Goblin-looking, Vulture – could have been handled differently.
We’re judging this by a couple of minutes footage, mind you, so pinch o’ salt. Let’s look at what’s great: Tom Holland’s Peter Parker bouncing off RDJ’s Tony Stark will never, ever get old, and it’s nice to see an actual teenage cast playing the teenage characters of the Spidey milieu; a welcome change-up from what has gone before. The action looks solid, the spectacle, well, spectacular. This one is going to be fun.
