Why Spider-Man No Way Home Works So Well?

 

 

 Warning: SPOILERS BELOW! READ ONLY IF YOU HAVE WATCHED SPIDER-MAN NO WAY HOME OR GO AWAY.

Spider-Man No Way Home was a massive movie the for Tom Holland's MCU Spider-Man. It was as good as a Spiderman movie can be without a doubt and I don't know how the creators can top that anymore. But why was it so good? How did the people who were not necessarily a fan of Tom Holland's Spidey left the theater actually with a high sense of respect towards the character? And it all falls down the fact the Tom's Spiderman by the end of the movie is as close to the Spiderman we have seen in the Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield films and the comics. Or you can say that Tom's Spiderman has finally become the Spiderman that people wanted him to be. He has finally completed the transformation and become the true Ultimate Spider-man from the comics who realizes that with 'great power comes great responsibility'. People complained that the MCU iteration of Spider-Man is not serious enough and already has everything going well for him and how he is very reliant on technology and other MCU biggies helping him all the time when he always keeps making stupid mistakes and risking people's life. People complained how he is not responsible enough for Spider-Man like the comics or the older movies to the point where they mocked him by calling him Iron Boy Jr. But the same people now suddenly love this version of Spider-Man more than they ever had.

I believe the most important reason for such huge change is because No Way Home changes the way Spider-Man in the MCU will move forward. It was almost a soft reboot for the character and the people around him. He is no longer is in control as he once was in the previous movies. The people who loved him no longer remember him as they once did, the only mother he had died in his arm while reminding him that with great power comes great responsibility, all his achievements and records erased from the history. People know who is Spiderman but no one knows about Peter Parker so even though people around the globe love him, he is the most alone person in the world right now, a completely new and alien territory for him. He is in a much more grim and dark place and that too for the first time and his struggle as Peter Parker to move forward and keep pushing finally begins just like the Tobey Maguire movies, the Andrew Garfield Movies and the Comics. His transformation into the friendly neighborhood spider-man is finally complete. I certainly believe this was all kind of roughly planned before hand and that the Home trilogy was an extended origin story of a young coming of age Spider-Man who has yet not figured it all out. He did not knew the consequences of his actions but now he does. Basically this Spider-Man had everything and then everything was taken away from him. The writers Stripped him down in the most efficient and beautiful way possible resulting in one of the beautiful and bittersweet endings in a Spider-Man movie. But most importantly Spider-Man has accepted what has happened and is at peace with the fact that even though he is alone, the people who cared about him are happy without him. We saw that MJ and Ned graduated but Peter did not so I also believe that this may be the final time we saw MJ and Ned and the next movie will have Peter interacting with completely different people. Perhaps they can now introduce Harry Osborn, Felicia and maybe Gwen Stacy in the MCU. We might even get an actual Mary Jane Watson as well.

Both Homecoming and Far From Home led up to No Way Home and now watching them after No Way Home will feel very different.

All the characters that have appeared in Peter's life have played some important part in his transformation and the final push was given by death of Aunt May. It pushes Peter to cross the boundaries and willingness to kill and this is where Tobey and Andrew's role in the movie was so important. I am happy that they have such a significant part in the third act of the movie and are not just in the movie for 2 minutes of crowd pleasing. The contrast and similarities between all three Peters is absolutely stunning to watch. All of them are funny, all of them are awkward, all of them are smart and powerful but we have Tom who is first time dealing with massive consequences of his action and is at the brink of breaking, we have Andrew who is still broken after the events of The Amazing Spider-Man 2, and then we have Tobey who is the oldest and wisest and the most content and chill Peter out of the three. All three of them were complementing each other so well the chemistry between them was of the charts. I could not believe my eyes that all three live action movie Spider-men were there together. And they play such an important part in Tom's development as a character. When Tobey stops Tom from killing Goblin, that moment gave me chills man. Tobey did not need to say a thing, his face said it all. He was like 'This isn't what we do'. Of course Andrew got some redemption after saving MJ from falling, such a bone chilling moment. For once though thanks to the Green Goblin for absolutely destroying Tom Holland's Spider-Man and giving him some massive beating. He destroyed him both Physically and Mentally and William Dafoe is the foe that Spider-Man need and he nailed it out of the park. What a great actor.

So Yeah No Way Home Works because it goes deep inside the heart of Spider-Man.