<i>Spider-Man: Homecoming</i> Is One of the Best Superhero Movies in Years
Sony's collaboration with Marvel Studios gets so many things right, it’s almost difficult to list them all.
“When’s our next mission?”
“We’ll call you.”
Peter Parker, a.k.a. Spider-Man, has just completed his first mission with the Avengers, and he’s eager for further adventures. But Tony Stark, a.k.a. Iron Man, thinks Peter could use a bit more seasoning—he’s only 15, after all—and encourages the boy to work on being a “friendly neighborhood Spider-Man” for a while before getting called back up to the Big Show. So he gives the kid the number for his security chief, Happy Hogan. Peter, needless to say, texts and calls—and then texts and calls some more—without response.
It’s a perfect setup for : Peter Parker—high-school nerd, eternal outsider, the guy whose greatest successes somehow wind up feeling like failures—waiting by the
