Spider-Man MCU Movies (2017-2021) [/]
Jun 24 2026
I recently watched the three Spider-Man MCU movies: Homecoming (2017), Far From Home (2019), and No Way Home (2021). They were all on FX so a bit of editing to fit time formats and such. I had previously seen Homecoming and beginnings parts of Far From Home.
These movies have a new Spider-Man, Tom Holland, and I don't believe they went through his origin story. In Homecoming he's back home after Captain America: Civil War so Peter Parker (Holland) and Aunt May (Marisa Tomei) already come off as established characters.
Homecoming: Spider-Man vs The Vulture (Michael Keaton) and his henchmen who I guess could be The Wrecking Crew. They use stolen Chitauri tech for the Vulture suit and the Crew's gadgets. Peter is enamored with Liz (Laura Harrier) while the tomboy wizkid Michelle (Zendaya) right at end says her friends call her "MJ". Peter's best friend Ned (Jacob Balaton) finds out his secret and becomes his "guy in the chair".
Far From Home: Luckily pretty much all of Peter's classmates and himself blipped out during Avengers: Infinity War/Endgame so they're all the same ages five years later. On a class trip to London Peter has to keep helping Nick Fury (Samuel L Jackson) stop these elemental monsters that destroyed the parallel Earth of Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal). I like Mysterio's long con and that he and his people, all former employees of Tony Stark, use the various techs they developed to simulate his "powers". In this film MJ discovers Peter's secret and the ending immediately leads to No Way Home.
No Way Home: The best of the three movies mostly because of nostalgia. Peter gets help from Dr Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) but then accidentally messes up Strange's spell. Suddenly various Spider-Man villains from the Multiverse arrive and most want Spider-Man dead: Green Goblin (Willem Dafoe) from Spider-Man (2002), Doctor Octopus (Alfred Molina) from Spider-Man 2 (2004), Sandman from Spider-Man 3 (2007), Lizard (Rhys Ifans) from The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) and Electro (Jamie Foxx) from The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) and I just realized it's one villain from each of the pre-MCU movies. Luckily Peter has the help of middle-aged Spider-Man (Tobey Maguire) and an older brother type Spider-Man (Andrew Garfield). The movie does end up doing a reset so Peter Parker is once again unknown even to his former friends.
The movies are about what you'd expect from MCU with great special effects, good humor, good callbacks to other parts of the MCU. Spider-Man not my favorite hero and these movies don't really change that. I just don't like teenagers acting like immature teenagers. Overall worth watching as part of the MCU.
These movies have a new Spider-Man, Tom Holland, and I don't believe they went through his origin story. In Homecoming he's back home after Captain America: Civil War so Peter Parker (Holland) and Aunt May (Marisa Tomei) already come off as established characters.
Homecoming: Spider-Man vs The Vulture (Michael Keaton) and his henchmen who I guess could be The Wrecking Crew. They use stolen Chitauri tech for the Vulture suit and the Crew's gadgets. Peter is enamored with Liz (Laura Harrier) while the tomboy wizkid Michelle (Zendaya) right at end says her friends call her "MJ". Peter's best friend Ned (Jacob Balaton) finds out his secret and becomes his "guy in the chair".
Far From Home: Luckily pretty much all of Peter's classmates and himself blipped out during Avengers: Infinity War/Endgame so they're all the same ages five years later. On a class trip to London Peter has to keep helping Nick Fury (Samuel L Jackson) stop these elemental monsters that destroyed the parallel Earth of Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal). I like Mysterio's long con and that he and his people, all former employees of Tony Stark, use the various techs they developed to simulate his "powers". In this film MJ discovers Peter's secret and the ending immediately leads to No Way Home.
No Way Home: The best of the three movies mostly because of nostalgia. Peter gets help from Dr Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) but then accidentally messes up Strange's spell. Suddenly various Spider-Man villains from the Multiverse arrive and most want Spider-Man dead: Green Goblin (Willem Dafoe) from Spider-Man (2002), Doctor Octopus (Alfred Molina) from Spider-Man 2 (2004), Sandman from Spider-Man 3 (2007), Lizard (Rhys Ifans) from The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) and Electro (Jamie Foxx) from The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) and I just realized it's one villain from each of the pre-MCU movies. Luckily Peter has the help of middle-aged Spider-Man (Tobey Maguire) and an older brother type Spider-Man (Andrew Garfield). The movie does end up doing a reset so Peter Parker is once again unknown even to his former friends.
The movies are about what you'd expect from MCU with great special effects, good humor, good callbacks to other parts of the MCU. Spider-Man not my favorite hero and these movies don't really change that. I just don't like teenagers acting like immature teenagers. Overall worth watching as part of the MCU.