The Iron Spider suit is so excessive. I mean, a mask that retracts, bulletproof, the legs...it would've been cooler to me to see Peter bust that crime family with his red and blue suit.
I see we're exchanging May actually dealing with the revelation of Peter being Spider-Man with "My hot mom has a prospective new boyfriend" jokes.
Betty feels like a mix of comic Betty, Liz, and Gwen all rolled into one.
The off-screen MCU relationship development strikes again, this time with Peter being absolutely smitten with MJ with very little on-screen build-up.
I love how Michelle's real name isn't mentioned once in this entire movie. Now we just call her "MJ" so people know exactly who she's supposed to be instead of just being a stand-in. Michelle Jones no longer exists.
At times Michelle's personality reminded me of Spider-Gwen, at least in terms of being more counter-culture, tough, and snappy. But I think we see when she's interacting with and being more open to Peter that it's actually the movie equivalent to her Party Girl facade in the comics and she's really much more awkward and cute.
So is Spider-Man the only really active hero on Earth now? Peter brought up the heavy-hitters, but what are Ant-Man and Wasp doing? Black Panther probably wouldn't involve himself with this kind of thing. Is Sam and Bucky's stuff supposed to be concurrent with this? Clint's retired.
How does Peter know Carol is called "Captain Marvel?" The MCU hardly ever establishes or uses codenames that it always feels kind of random when they just use one matter-of-factly. So why is Carol called Captain Marvel? Has she been using Mar-Vell's name in space?
Giving Peter the glasses really did seem pretty irresponsible to give to a teenager, even if it was with the expectation he'd man-up. Someone that young really should not have the ability to invade people's privacy or control a bunch of drones and satellites. Actually, no device should really have all that power, isn't that what Cap was fighting against in
Winter Solider?
I'm a little disappointed that, for the most part, the Mysterio costume was just a mo-cap suit, but that actually made a lot of sense for the character in the modern age of film-making. At least they fit the bubble head into his mo-cap suit.
It's kind of interesting, at least to me, that the only time Peter actually fought Mysterio in his "suit" was in the illusion sequence, which felt ripped straight from a Scarecrow sequence from the
Arkham games.
I love how they have Happy say Peter can't be Iron Man and shouldn't be Iron Man only for the subsequent sequence to feature Peter constructing a suit to AC/DC like Tony would have, with Happy smiling at how much like Tony Peter is .
So how many suits does Peter have now? Four? Five if he rebuilds the Night Monkey Stealth Suit? Are they building up to a Hall of Spider-Man suits for more Iron Man comparisons?
See, Jon Watts can do a cool sequence of Spider-Man swinging through New York like all the other movies did! It actually felt like Peter had finally come into his own as Spider-Man then, which I guess made it all the more dramatic when the rug got pulled out from under him.