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Movie: Spider-Man Homecoming

K-SCORE:  39

Director:  Jon Watts

Writer:  Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley, Jon Watts, Christopher Ford, Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers

Starring:  Tom Holland, Michael Keaton, Jon Favreau, Marisa Tomei, Donald Glover, Robert Downey Jr., Martin Starr, Laura Harrier, and a girl apparently just named Zendaya

Spoiler Level:  Minor

If the rate at which Spider-Man movies are cranked out continues like this, I’m going to have to get much faster at writing these reviews.  Okiedokie.  Spider-Man: Homecoming has a few faults:

  • Doesn’t make sense

  • Annoying Spider-Man

  • Spider-Man doesn’t help any situation he’s involved in

  • Spider-Man causes a ton of collateral damage

  • Selling next Avengers film instead of making this film good

  • Spider-Man doesn’t use his powers well

  • Too many characters with too little to do

  • Jon Favreau

  • Peter Parker fails in all of school, social life, family life, and superheroism

  • Afraid to do the Spider-Man things already done in previous 1100 films

  • Afraid to do anything different

  • Bad choices for villain powers, motives, and schemes

  • Bad choices for settings of action scenes

  • Weird focus on Spider-Man’s suit

  • Stan Lee can't hear me booing his cameos

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And it does some things well:

  • Three funny Martin Starr lines

Okay it does one thing well.  Way to go Marvel.  You remain firmly in the top spot of comic book filmmakers.