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movie review - Spider-Man No Way Home

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

This movie is what they call "fan service", designed foremost to please people who are really into the material. The results can be pretty inexplicable to casual viewers and that's what I suppose I am despite now having seen all of the Spider-Man movies.

We start this outing with Spider-Man once again playing a junior employee to Iron Man through his nebulous business empire. His private identity is known by the whole world, and he is struggling. So he steals a magic trinket and tries to create a spell to make people forget -- yes, this in a Spider-Man movie! Naturally, this opens up some kind of gateway so that all his old foes as well as other forms of himself can come together "so the movie can happen". After that it's essentially just a great fist fight.

I felt this movie was unnecessary.

Not recommended.