Written by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers
Directed by Jon Watts
Starring Tom Holland, Zendaya and Jon Favreau
MPAA rating: PG-13 for sci-fi action violence, some language and brief suggestive comments
Running time: 2 hours and 9 minutes

by Rosalie Kicks, Old Sport and Benjamin Leonard, Best Boy

“Does anyone have any neighborhood questions?” - Spider-Man

Best Boy (BB): As a general rule, I’ve never really been a fan of the Spider-Men (Into the Spider-Verse excluded). For the most part, they’ve been portrayed as whiney, mopey teens that I just couldn’t get behind.To quote Rocket,  “I don’t care if it’s mean, everyone’s got dead people!” And I never got into the Avengers as comics OR movies. So when I was at my peak of traveling for work, I gave a chance to a lot of movie I wouldn’t normally have bothered with. One of those was Spider-Man: Homecoming and I ended up really enjoying it. This Holland kid was great at playing up his awe of working with the Avengers and leaning into the awkward teen angle rather than the mopey side. I liked it so much that I bought it right when it came out and forced Kicks to watch it shortly thereafter.