Spider-Man: No Way Home

In January 2022, I watched Spider-Man: No Way Home for the first time at Movix Kameari. The superhero film was released in 2021. It is the third one in the Spider-Man series starring Tom Holland. When I viewed the first one Homecoming on the television set, I felt that it was not more enjoyable than the Spider-Man series starring Tobey Maguire, so I decided not to do the third one at a theater, however, I came to want to do it because many people who did the latest one praised it right after the release. The newest one lived up to the rumors and was amazingly entertaining.

The story starts just after the one of Spider-Man: Far From Home, the previous one. It depicts the youth of Peter Parker, who is a high-school student and whose identity as Spider-Man is exposed, and the battle of Spider-Man and his friends against the villains.

I had not watched the last one, so I did not fully understand some of the scenes but I could enjoy it from the beginning, for it was not so complicated. As for Doctor Strange, I did not know about him. I laughed at him in spite of myself when Benedict Cumberbatch playing him appeared with a flashy costume and he looked far different from him as an ordinary citizen in The Courier that I did in October 2021 at a theater. Although I thought of Doctor Strange as like a clown whose impact will quickly vanish, yet he plays an important role toward the ending. Cumberbatch gave an impressive performance as him. I knew that Doctor Strange is a character who appears in other Marvel Cinematic Universe flicks later, though I have not gotten interested in the character until now. I like to watch Cumberbatch's acting in a drama one like The Power of the Dog, anyway. Then when I was viewing the ending and thinking that only Happy's presence was light, John Favreau acting him showed up and gave a restrainedly elegant performance. Each character has its many lines in the picture. It is good in not only action but also human drama.

I laughed at the use of the multiverse as well as the showy costume of Doctor Strange, moreover, after watching it, I was impressed that the Marvel Cinematic Universe series can make their movies endlessly by using the notion, though I also laughed at how greedy they are for money.  

I believe that the story's theme is the phrase "With great power, there must also come great responsibility" which Uncle Ben persuasively says to Peter Parker played Tobey Maguire in Spider-Man and Aunt May admonishes to Peter in No Way Home. I do not have such power. The fact makes me smile wryly thinking that being ordinary is not too bad.

I was the most impressed with Tom Holland's gentle, innocent and somewhat childlike face slightly with a look of sorrow. I also thought that it is natural that he has been hugely popular.

Watching the film, I regretted that I had not done not only the last one and The Amazing Spider-Man series but also the Marvel Cinematic Universe ones in which Tom Holland as Spider-Man turns up. I quickly did all of them after doing it and I did the newest one again at the IMAX theater of Toho Cinemas Nagareyama Ootakanomori the next month. I was more moved than the first time and I more wanted to watch especially the conversation among Spider-Man and his allies coming from the different universes, moreover, their good-bye scene made me feel really lonely.