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Sheep007
Far From Home is such a strange-feeling addition to the MCU, to me. Its post-Infinity War, so has to spend time explaining all that, but most of the characters are the same age. Some of the jokes are just off to me Peter almost killing his classmates, cool. I dunno, I dont really like the whole wacky misunderstanding thing, and Far From Home does it a couple times. The fight scenes are pretty clever and I absolutely love the illusion sequences, but something feels off. Maybe its that Mysterio goes from charming and likeable to a petty little bitch with no real depth, maybe its that the movie is just overall a bit less funny and tense than its predecessor, even though theres definitely enough twists. Dont get me wrong, its still fun, the action is decent and Tom Holland and Zendaya are both good actors and have chemistry, but its stuck at fun movie with some wit and twists for me. The end credits are both interesting, and I think Peters identity being revealed was something that interested me more than the events of the rest of the film.

Lopen
I friggin love Mysterio and this movie does him as well as I could have hoped for. The casting for the guy is fantastic and the fight scene where Spidey is hallucinating for like 2 minutes straight is just so good. My only real problem with the movie is it is too heavily relying on the continuity of the MCU-- like if you haven't seen Infinity War it spoils a lot of it and I don't think it really explains what happens in Infinity War well enough that it works as a stand alone film. This is the weight of the MCU showing itself and it's in a way that kinda turns me off the franchise a bit-- you've got movies like The Avengers that someone can just watch alone but it's ENHANCED by seeing the others, and then movies like this one where it's required viewing.

Mega Mana
First Scene That Comes to Mind: Night Monkey and the ferris wheel

Far From Home is so much fun. It's one big post-dust vacation breather, except the breather involves everytnhing almost going completely bad. There are so many fun twists and turns and reveals. While Mysterio is the obvious bad guy to anyone who's ever read a Spider-Man comic or watched a Spider-Man cartoon, Jake Gyllenhaal's protrayal as the fervent mentor hero for Spider-Man, giving him a new father figure to latch to after Uncle Ben and Tony Stark, is so earnest and good that the reveal at the restaurant with everything dropping out around him is so perfectly done. There are gripes that it's more Stark influencing things. Well. Yes. This is the movieverse. The Starks have been involved in things since World War II with Captain America. Ant-Man, Captain America, Spider-Man, and even Black Panther have major worldbuilding elements that involve either the Starks or major corporate weapons technology preservation (away from the Starks). That's a shared universe with a camera-ready billionaire playboy genius philanthropist. There's also the reveal to MJ of Spider-Man's identity which was well done and funny, the Nick Fury/Hill reveal which makes Mysterio work even better (because Fury would've so caught on from the outset and not been blindsided), and then that very final scene with a beautiful, exciting, horrific return.

Far From Home is a great ride. It's fun with a lot of really quality moments and great character beats. The Stark glasses stuff is meh, as well as the classmate hot for MJ, and the final showdown had a few too many moving parts, but everything else worked for me. I quite enjoyed the quiet storyline of Flash Thompson's lonely want for attention from his parents. The first fight against Mysterio was, in my opinion, more trippy and mindbending than anything in Doctor Strange. Happy Hogan was excellent in this movie, and I loved Favreau watching Holland work on a new suit. Like, there is so much world that was built that it pays small tributes too without going, 'Hey remember this? Hey remember?' And the school class trip just going off-the-rails from the outset was a lot of fun. I enjoy his teachers.

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