Spider-Man: Homecoming review: Tom Holland and Robert Downey Jr in new Avengers film
IS IT a sign of growing old that Spider-Man, like police officers, seems to be getting younger?
Tom Holland and Robert Downey Jr star in Spider-Man: Homecoming
Spider-Man: Homecoming (Cert 12A; 133mins)
In Spider-Man: Homecoming, Peter Parker (Tom Holland) is barely 15 and his web-slinging powers make him as excitable as a young puppy and desperate to prove himself worthy of joining The Avengers. Fortunately Tony Stark, aka Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr), is on hand to offer tough love to his naive new apprentice.
The latest Spider-Man adventure is great fun and has some amazing set pieces from a vertigo-inducing rescue at the top of the Washington Monument to a feat of derring-do on the Staten Island Ferry and a Coney Island finale.
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The notion of an immature, untrained Spider-Man brings a fresh feel and the always reliable Michael Keaton makes a sinister but strangely sympathetic villain as The Vulture.
But nothing can quite prevent the film feeling like just another piece in the vast Avengers jigsaw.