It had been the case of X-Men – Days of a future past where, rather than talking about something, a reboot was explained. The risk of stories like this, which work so obsessively on their own saga, is to be reduced to self-referentiality. Spider-Man: No Way Home therefore demonstrates that Avengers: Endgame was not a unique one-off and that this type of narrative is here to stay. The only one for which something similar would be possible is not by chance another superhero: Batman (there would also be James Bond, but there the decades are too many, many actors are dead and above all the tone is not fantastic enough for this type of operation. Only cinematic figures who reincarnate, from reboot to reboot, can match this level of super-narrative, where threads that have accompanied the public for decades are reunited. As already widely revealed in the trailers, the multiverse introduced in Spider-Man: No Way Home is in fact an opportunity to draw characters from the previous incarnations of the hero. With confused altruism, to solve above all their troubles and those of his aunt, Peter turns to Doctor Strange, but magic always has a cost …Īfter two chapters relatively contained in the ambitions, the finale of this first trilogy of Spider-Man with Holland follows the superproduction format of Avengers: Endgame and comes out with his head held high.įor fans, this third film by Jon Watts will be the catharsis of a lifetime, of stories seen more than twenty years ago and of the long waits between one chapter and another. A problem that extends to his closest circle of friends: MJ and Ned Ellis. Besieged by the media, accused by the feds, harassed by those who believe Mysterio’s latest statements and think he is a killer … Even just going to school becomes a nightmare and Peter is considered persona non grata by the universities he would like to enroll in. Spider-Man’s secret identity was revealed to the world at the end of the previous film and now Peter Parker gets away with an unmanageable situation. Posted in: 2022, Action, Movies on: February 6