![]() ![]() The film is loaded with meta jokes and gags between the trio of Peter Parkers, from Holland and Garfield freaking out over Maguire’s natural web-shooters (Raimi’s adaptation of the canon had Peter develop the ability to shoot webs from his wrists without the need for mechanical web-shooters), to Maguire giving Garfield a pep talk and telling him he’s “Amazing” all his own. It’s a movie filled with fan service, but it’s fan service for characters we’ve spent decades loving and missing at this point, so it feels more than earned. The set-up is a classic comic book mess: Doctor Strange’s spell goes awry and drags in villains from across the spectrum of those two previous franchises, and of course, those OG Spider-Men also make the journey for an epic team up two decades and eight movies (or more than that, if you count Holland’s several appearances in other MCU movies) in the making. ![]() **SPOILER WARNING: Though most everyone on the planet has already seen it at this point judging by those opening weekend numbers - fair warning - spoilers ahead for Spider-Man: No Way Home**Īs pretty much everyone assumed and now knows for certain, both original Spider-Man stars Tobey Maguire (from Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy) and Andrew Garfield (from the two Amazing Spider-Man films) return to the role of Peter Parker in the multiversal mash-up that is Spider-Man: No Way Home. ![]() Sam Raimi’s original trilogy was a box office juggernaut, and Sony made plenty of money off its follow-ups in the two Amazing Spider-Man films - though those continuities were abandoned when the studio cut bait and cast Tom Holland to join the wider world of Marvel heroes.īut that Amazing Spider-Man series? It wasn’t all bad. Long before there was a Marvel Cinematic Universe and endless comic book adaptations on the box office and small screen, there was Spider-Man. ![]()
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