Starring: Tom Holland, Zendaya, Jake Gyllenhaal, Samuel L. Jackson, Marisa Tomei, John Favreau and Jacob Batalon
Running Time: 2Hours and 9 Minutes
After such a momentous ending to the much anticipated end all be all “Avengers: Endgame” this past April, everyone was holding on for more great Marvel adventure with our beloved Spider-Man in “Spider-Man: Far From Home”, and boy oh boy did it deliver! Such a great, fun and entertaining movie.
Tom Holland delivers the goods as usual doubling as: Peter Parker/Spider-Man as a little more mature Peter as he departs for a much anticipated dream vacation to Europe with his High School group and best friend Ned Leeds (Jacob Batalon). Peter has a mad crush on his fellow student MJ (Zendaya) who is also on the vacation.
He is trying to get her attention without being overly-obvious. Ned keeps reassuring Peter that they are going to have a blast on this vacation and just be “American bachelors in Europe”. However, Ned starts a relationship with a young lady named Betty Brant (Angourie Rice) immediately, debunking the whole “American bachelors in Europe” theory leaving Peter anxious to pursue MJ, as a fellow student is alreading trying to start a relationship with her.
As they arrive in Venice, things seem out of sorts and suddenly something sinister occurs in the beautiful canal system with the water being taken over by a very strange force of evil!
Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) makes a first appearance before Peter and informs him that he needs him to step up, put some clothes on and go for a ride with him because, Spider-Man has a job to do!
All evil is about to explode when he encounters “Mysterio”/Quentin Beck (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Spider-Man finds he is no longer on his dream vacation to explore and have fun but to get to work and help save the world from terror and evil as an epic battle takes place on the famous Tower Bridge of London.
This movie has all kinds of twists and turns that will keep you on the edge of your seat and highly entertained! I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. Not only did it have drama it also had a lot of humor too. Tom Holland does an outstanding job as both Peter Parker dealing with the turmoils of the teenage years and first loves and also as the awesome “ Spider-Man”!
Just a great movie and even better if you are still agonizing over the finality of “Avengers: Endgame”.
Be sure and stay after the credits for some fun and informative scenes.
Parents be advised: This movie is rated PG-13. I would recommend this movie for children ages 11 and over. There is a large scary monster character who is very powerful and destructive! There is also some profanity including “what the f-bomb” that is cut off. Just teenagers trying to be tough guys through their language.
I am giving “Spider-Man: Far From Home” four bags of popcorn.
