Spider-Man: Far From Home has big shoes to fill, the new Spidey flick will pick up directly after Avengers: Endgame.
With the massive success of the latest Avengers film and the surprising triumph of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Far From Home has a lot to live up to…. and the film delivers.
Spider-Man: Homecoming, brought you into the small world of Peter Park has he transitions into Spider-Man, butting heads with local criminals. Far from Home takes it up a notch with literal out of this world moments, along with out of this universe villains!
The aftermath of Tony Stark’s death is being felt globally in the MCU. Within the first minutes of the film, viewers see murals, urban shrines and even YouTube “in memoriam” videos. Peter Parker is taking the loss of his mentor the hardest, he is burdened with feeling that he has to live up to the legacy his idol left behind.
Peter is ready to take a break from his superhero duties and be a regular teenager.
Far from Home also deals with the fact that after 5 years a chunk of the population is now back into existence. Endgame restored the people Thanos snapped out of existence, but the worlds has yet to fully adapt to their sudden reemergence. Some of the people in Peters high school have aged five years, while others are exactly as they were before “The Blip,” as the gap is now called. Luckily for Peter, all his friends are unchanged and they are en route to Europe for a science class field trip.
Peter doesn’t have too much down time, he is introduced to Quentin Beck, an inter-dimensional traveler whose alternate Earth was destroyed by mysterious raging elementals. The same creatures are now showing up on Peter’s Earth, and Nick Fury wants Spider-man to help Quentin, also known as Mysterio.
The thing is Peter doesn’t want to help Mysterio, he would rather hang out with his friends, specifically M.J., but the elementals and his class trip keep clashing which makes for some very funny scenes.
Far From Home’s action beats are amazing and the fact that Spider-Mans webs are useless against monsters made of water and fire lets see how creative Peter can be. These duels become some of the films most entertaining scenes.
Action is great but the true emotion comes from Peter embracing his initial burden of becoming the next Tony Stark. He embodies this when he steps Tony’s old fabricators and starts navigating through holographic suit elements, composing himself up a new suit. Tony’s assistant Happy stands there watching and smiling while he reminisces about the last man who stood in that very spot!
Spider-Man: Far from Home offers strong emotions with doses big action-packed moments. Marvel continues to build powerful emotions around its most powerful heroes!
