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This movie was not good. No amount of nostalgia saved it for me. It had pacing issues, for example the movie skimmed past Peter's whole identity exposed moment and chucked Daredevil in for a meaningless cameo as nobody seemed to truly care that as a blind man, he was able to catch a brick chucked through the window. He was literally just there for fanservice, and not a well written one. The rest of the movie is pointless as by the end, they just reverse everything by sending the spider-men and villains back to their world, after of course, seemingly retconning the plots of the previous spider-man movies by curing the villains, who were taken before they met their demise. Therefore their fights with spider-man end on a lame note as they all just become ordinary men towards the end of the original battles and so the Peter Parkers wouldn't experience the key character development and progression of their stories from this.
Aunt May's death was lacklustre. She was able to stand up and have a full conversation with Peter before she finally felt the effects of the stab wound she got from the Goblin's glider?? like what?
And in usual MCU fashion, the film is riddled with jokes that sometimes hit, but mostly fall flat. And that in my opinion, do not fit the characters who say it. Like they make Andrew Garfield's Peter an edge lord, which I understand because Gwen died but he just wouldn't act like that.
And the Peters just felt like they needed to be there for Tom's Peter? bad writing at its finest.
Yes, this whole movie could've been avoided if Peter just listened to Doctor Strange, a man who actually knows magic and the consequences of messing spells up, but nope, he has to be stupid when he is supposed to be smart. Strange was literally the best character in the entire film, just for being the only one with a working braincell.
Also, a school science lab just conveniently had everything they needed to make the cures for the villains? like the cure for the Lizard was made using Oscorp tech and probably chemicals too, which in the MCU, doesn't exist, so would they really be able to make all the cures?
I don't think this film was written well. It had already established Spider-man characters with no involvement with Stark, but still failed at making Tom's Peter any better than he was when under Tony Stark's mentorship.
Also thought the cinematography was bland, only shot that I really liked was the one with Peter in the rain, which is generic anyway. The acting also was a hit or miss. The music though was good, especially the track that played when May died.
Overall, I found this movie quite bad. Nothing about it made me want to rewatch it and I have been feeling this with MCU movies recently like Black Widow. I will continue to watch Spider-man movies just because of my love for the character, but I will most likely continue to think the MCU's portrayal of the character is the worst even though Tom Holland's acting is great.