a hero trapped in his web of references

THE OPINION OF THE “WORLD” – MUST SEE

Started in 2002 with Tobey Maguire in the title role, Kirsten Dunst in that of his sweetheart, Willem Dafoe in that of the junk of service, and Sam Raimi behind the camera – quartet in our humble opinion unsurpassable for the few remaining years of our earthly time – the Spider-Man saga is proving to be a precious windfall. This explains why there have been seven films since that date devoted to the spider-man, all produced mainly by the Sony studio, due to a contractual snub still removing him from the sprawling Disney empire, which made the Marvel universe its thing.

Here we find the hero in a delicate position, his identity revealed, his reputation tarnished

A first “reboot” (resetting the counters to zero) with Andrew Garfield having been interrupted after two films by the studio, the actor Tom Holland takes over in a new trilogy, co-financed this time, not without clashes, with Disney and directed by Jon Watts. Spider-Man: No Way Home, which we are discovering today, is therefore the continuation of Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) and Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), the latter having taken the saga to its commercial peak, with more than a billion dollars in revenue. As many titles, we note in passing, which align the houses (home) not knowing what to do with it, which does not seem out of place when it comes to an orphan hero, as tortured, fragile and likeable as this one.

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The noticeable rejuvenation of the arachnid protagonist, the good friend MJ (Zendaya) passing on the side of visible minorities, the arrival of the geeky Asian friend Ned Leeds (Jacob Batalon) give this new trilogy an expressly adolescent, contemporary and politically irreproachable touch. even one would be entitled to consider that MJ could be a little better served in matters of personality. In any case, following the previous opus, we find here Spider-Man in a delicate position, his identity revealed, his reputation tarnished, very serious accusations hanging over him after a terrorist attack in London for which he is blamed. .

A classy wizard

Sticky situation when you want to live a teenage life in Queens, and you’re about to apply to MIT, one of the best universities in the world, in the company of faithful MJ and Ned. Unfortunately, the controversy, cruelly maintained by a journalist as surly as a louse, compromises the admissibility of their file. We are there with the triviality which is the prerogative of this hero when Peter Parker has the idea of ​​appealing to Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), classy wizard of the superheroic era, to which the young Peter Parker asks to erase the memory of his identity from the consciousness of the public, in order to fix his university file. And when it occurs to him that MJ, Ned and his Aunt May must be left out of the process, Strange, with great lightning strikes and rifts in space-time, has already kicked off the presses.

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