Sure, the three performers are having a party (and Andrew Garfield is a more ebullient actor now than he was when he glummed his way through his original two “Spider-Man” films), but the picture is “meta” in the way that a clever advertisement is meta. “No Way Home” is basically a sideshow attraction (“Step right up! See all the Spider-Men in one movie!”) staged as a bloated “Saturday Night Live” sketch. (I can hear some of you going, “Awesome!”) But as a marketing hook it’s off the hook. It’s as if the new “Batman” film had found a way for Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, Christian Bale, and Ben Affleck to all show up as Bruce Wayne.
That said, the only reason “No Way Home” even bothered with the multiverse concept is that it’s the only way the filmmakers could figure out to shoehorn all three of the actors who’ve played Spider-Man - Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield, and Tom Holland - into one movie.Īs a storytelling premise, this one makes close to no sense.
#No way home movie#
That movie was no small influence on this one, but it’s like seeing filet mignon turned into processed, additive-filled hamburger. “No Way Home” has none of the head-spinning flair and three-dimensional-chess logic that was so hypnotic in “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” the bedazzling 2018 animated landmark that is one of the all-time highlights of the superhero genre. The way the multiverse concept plays out is, in my opinion, a half-baked and unsatisfying mess. But understand that I’m actually on your side. So even though my antipathy isn’t the topic of this column, why hide it? Go ahead, throw tomatoes at me.
Yes, I hated “ Spider-Man: No Way Home.” It’s a movie that I’m a total annoying curmudgeonly naysayer about.
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