To the brilliant accompaniment of the Ramones’ “Blitzkrieg Bop” ( Hey! Ho! Let’s go!), Peter confronts an apparent car thief who turns out to be the owner of the vehicle in question, and recovers a stolen bike that may or may not have actually been stolen. He still has his superpowers, the high-tech suit with which Stark outfitted him, and an abiding desire to fight crime. And Peter, having had a taste of full-on superheroism, is back to being an ordinary, not terribly popular high-schooler in Queens. “Something about Captain America going crazy.”) But when it’s over, it’s over. (“No one has actually told me what I’m doing in Berlin,” he narrates to his smartphone. The movie opens with a mini-movie-really more of a video diary-by Peter himself, briefly recounting the character’s reintroduction as a temporary Avenger in Captain America: Civil War. But Marvel demonstrates once again that it knows exactly what it’s doing with one of its premier characters: Homecoming, starring Tom Holland in the titular role, is an utter gas, a fast and very funny superflick that inserts Spidey into the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe without ever losing sight of what makes him unique and beloved. Sony’s first bite at the apple, with Tobey Maguire, fell apart by the end, and the second, with Andrew Garfield, barely got off the ground at all. When Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios announced they were teaming up to re-boot Spider-Man once more-the third iteration of the character in 15 years-it was easy to be skeptical.
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