A fun, entertaining, easy-watching film that inevitably felt like a MCU-lite entry. Like the first film, it definitely felt more younger-skewing than the main MCU films, but also at times felt less a superhero film than a teenage, road trip comedy romp.
The world-threatening and personal, emotional stakes felt low and empty throughout the film, especially since Jake Gyllenhaal’s Mysterio’s introduction to the MCU was such a bungled effort. There was, distractingly, a constant sense that this film failed to live up to its potential given that fans would know what Mysterio is capable of which thus kind of negate the whole purpose of Act One; also by introducing Mysterio as from an - spoiler - alternate universe right after we had the phenomenal “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” but then not exploring that felt like a great big lie and cheat.
Thankfully Tom Holland and Zendaya are still insanely charismatic and fit their characters to a tee. However, it was a pity that the Holland-Jacob Batalon bromance - a highlight of the first film - got shortchanged this time round.
Gyllenhaal was wide-eyed, crazed and wasted, and Samuel L Jackson and Cobie Smulders obviously had contractual obligations.
Stay all the way to the end. The mid- and post-credits were more exciting than the 2 hours before that, and effectively set up the next Spider-Man film and the MCU saga.
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