How Spider-Man: No Way Home Follows Up On Far From Home's Spider-Sense Storyline
Arguably Marvel Studios’ most ambitious, self-aware, experimental movie to date, Spider-Man: No Way Home had a lot of storylines to juggle. It picks up where its predecessor Far From Home left off and turns Spidey’s entire life upside down before breaking open the multiverse and bringing Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Men (and five of their villains) into the MCU. While its meta crossover-event premise was undoubtedly risky, director Jon Watts stuck the landing beautifully. The MCU Spidey threequel succeeds on many counts, providing audiences with all the fan service they could ask for while also telling a moving Frank Capra-esque fable about second chances.
As No Way Home hits the home media market, many Marvel fans are revisiting the movie and re-evaluating its strengths and weaknesses. When it first arrived in theaters, many audiences were sedated with a healthy dose of nostalgia and overlooked some of the movie’s shakier spots. On rewatches, the plot holes stand out a little more. For starters, the rules of Doctor Strange’s brainwashing spell are as inconsistent as the rules for acquiring the Soul Stone.
No Way Home Makes Spider-Man The MCU's Best Trilogy
But it’s easy to overlook a fridge-logic problem like the inevitably grim fate that awaits the villains in their own universes regardless of whether they’ve been “cured,” because the message that everybody deserves a second chance is so strong. Tweaking the lore is forgivable if it serves the themes of a great story, and No Way Home has a great story to tell. It’s the ultimate Peter Parker tale. He could just let the villains return to their own universes and perish, but Zendaya’s MJ says it best: “That’s not who he is.”
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