Thoughts:
- That is kind of a quintessential Peter and Mary Jane moment at the beginning with Peter and Michelle. All she needs is red hair and the real name.
- They've been so flippant with Peter's secret identity that I'm glad they're treating his identity getting outed seriously and there is actual consequences to it for his friends and family. Is there any reason he wouldn't want to get it back? Of course then they bring up how difficult it is to maintain a double life. I kind of hope they don't just undo the undoing because Peter learned a lesson because I feel like the point should be that he needs both Spider-Man and Peter Parker instead of being just another MCU hero who is a hero pretty much all the time.
- Aunt May facing charges for being Peter's aunt is probably the most serious thing they've done with her in this entire trilogy and I'm not sure they're really going to do much with it.
- That head that reminds Peter of Dr. Strange looks oddly enough like Mephisto. And then they go into the mindwipe and we get into OMD territory.
- Strange in the Cloak in casual clothes is...something. Looks like he and Wong were on an ice mission together.
- I don't know how I feel about Strange going through with the spell even when Wong advises him not too. It seems too flippant of him, especially compared to how he'd been depicted before and he knows how dangerous magic can be. And, obviously, it goes wrong and potentially sets up the Multiverse of Madness as much as Sylvie did.
- So I guess Peter has to deal with telling his core supporting cast he's Spider-Man again...although he just morphs into costume in broad daylight like Spider-Iron Man so it doesn't seem like he cares about keeping his identity anymore otherwise.
- This looks to get as trippy as a Spider-Man/Dr. Strange team-up should get.
- So we have an Electro shock, a storm of Sandman (?), a Pumpkin Bomb with that distinct Willem Dafoe laugh, and obviously Molina as Doc Ock...although at the same time, as great as the nolstalgia is, why is it so hard for Holland to get his own villains? They're either motivated by Tony Stark or hand-me-downs from other Spider-Men.
- I guess Peter brings the Iron Spider suit out because he needs to be bulletproof. Can he just stick to one costume for once? And not be bulletproof? Or like transforming into a costume in one second? It just really takes me out of it.
I thought he pretty much had Ock beaten. He only went to talk to him to get his help when he couldn't destroy the machine by himself.
I guess because of Spider-Verse but it just doesn't feel like the right time to do it for Holland's Spider-Man.I don't think there is any milestone happening. I think that Marvel wants to delve into the multiverse concept, and it will work best for Spider-Man. That way, when Sony's deal with Marvel expires, they can split that off into it's own universe and use that as an excuse why Peter never shows up in proper Marvel movies anymore.
The problem with Tony is that his presence is felt in the movies even when he's not there or dead and Peter has to be in a mentor/protege relationship that's not really true to Spider-Man. I don't think that's true for supporting heroes in other solo films.I agree the first Holland movie ended with him being stripped of all of his tech and having to go toe-to-toe with the Vulture old school. But at the end of the second, he got a brand new Stark-tech suit.
I will agree that his supporting cast is a bit underdeveloped. But really, Tony was in the first one for like 10 minutes total. A couple of conversations, and one big scene saving the ferry. The second one he teamed with Mysterio, as that was part of his con, and Happy flew him around and looked after his friends, and Fury was only in it a little bit. I wouldn't say they were crowding him out, or even taking too much time away from his friends. And again, this has become a staple in Marvel movies. Cap was the main star in his first movie, but by the second they brought in Falcon and Widow, and the third was an Avengers movie in everything but title. Even Thor added the Hulk. Iron Man had Rhodey, but that was basically it. This is just how they do it now.
Would I like to see a solo Spider-Man film? Absolutely. And I kinda feel that, after this movie, when it goes back to just Sony producing the movie, it probably will.