There’s no attempt to hide that the film is pure fan service, a greatest-hits mashup of Spider-Man’s cinematic legacy.
Jon Watts deftly weaves the epic and the mundane aspects of Spider-Man’s existence throughout the film.
One of the finest, most distinctive Marvel productions yet gets an expectedly sterling home-video release.
The film is committed to the idea that heroism isn’t a burden but an uplifting realization of our best qualities.
The film is unable to reconcile a desire to ridicule its own artifice with constant attempts to foster genuine empathy and dramatic tension.
By partially demonstrating what a fresher superhero movie might look like, it underlines its genre-defined limitations.
Still one of the most fun sugar rushes of the year, the film arrives on home video with a shimmering, chromatic video transfer.
The film is an unbroken chain of one-liners, sight gags, and pop-culture references, and the hit-to-miss ratio is high.