{"id":18654,"date":"2019-07-01T13:29:34","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T20:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/?p=18654"},"modified":"2019-07-01T13:29:34","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T20:29:34","slug":"spider-man-far-from-home-is-a-fun-summer-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/?p=18654","title":{"rendered":"SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME is a Fun Summer Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Suffering from superhero fatigue? Well, you wouldn’t be\nalone. It seems that so many Marvel movies have come down the pipeline the past\nfew years that it’s difficult just to keep up with them all. The latest entry\nis Spider-Man: Far from Home<\/em>, and it marks the final film in what the\nstudio refers to as Phase Three. In fact, there will be an almost one-year gap\nbetween this and the next feature. Much of the big action occurred in the\nprevious Avengers<\/em> finale, and so this latest sequel doesn’t have the\nsame kind of epic stakes. Still, the movie does provide some laughs and a few\nthrills along the way. It’s a perfectly efficient and entertaining popcorn\nsummer movie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After all the chaos in the previous Marvel adventure, Peter Parker (Tom Holland) misses his previous life as a carefree teenager, and feels uncertain of whether or not he even wants to be a superhero. In fact, his priorities are to put the costume away, enjoy a school trip to Europe and tell schoolmate MJ (Zendaya) how he feels about her. When Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) appears with superhero-from-an-alternate-universe Quentin Beck\/Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal) and demand his help in combating a new threat, Parker doesn’t want to get involved. However, over the course of his school trip, Peter contends with life-threatening foes and complications in his personal life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The movie juggles a teen romance subplot with comedic bits\nin which Parker must hide his true identity from classmates and save them from\nimminent danger. Obviously, there are a lot of goofy gags involving school\nrivalries and the film has an episodic feel as it barrels through photogenic\ncities like Venice, Prague,\n Berlin and London.\nParker is often the butt of jokes. Some of them, including an unwanted alter\nego and a silly new name given for his “Spider-sense,” earn laughs.\nAnd humor is also derived from the unexpected complications that have arisen\nafter most of the world’s population suddenly returns. Not every quip lands and\nthe film is much sillier than what we’ve seen from Marvel recently, but the\ncast of kids are likable enough to eke a few chuckles out of the proceedings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And the screenplay also attempts to veer off in a few\nunexpected directions. Things are most certainly not what they initially seem\nand if you manage to go into the theater without knowing the plot twists, some\nof the surprise reveals are effective. Through the course of the film,\nSpider-Man and others also have to contend with a series of psychogenic mirages\nthat play upon the fears and anxieties. These elaborate sequences provide some\ntrippy thrills. It soon becomes clear that manipulating others through trickery\n(and even media) is the feature’s primary theme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gyllenhaal’s guest role is a little more eccentric than most caped characters seen in previous Marvel films, adding a little variety. He also gets in a good zinger or two, and the character’s almost obsessive focus on appearances fits in quite well with the premise. As mentioned, there’s a lot going on and overall the many elements sometimes come off as a bit of a rushed jumble, but the film wins marks for its boldness and, at the very least, being chock full of wild ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And Marvel enthusiasts will be happy to know that there are\ntwo post credit sequences… the first one is the most effective and features a\ncameo that most viewers will actually recognize without having to look the\nreference up on their phones. In summary, this reviewer enjoyed Spider-Man:\nFar from Home<\/em>. It certainly isn’t the best title in the franchise, but the\naction and visuals are impressive and the story takes some unexpected chances.\nThis is a good-natured and most importantly, fun superhero flick that should\namuse comic book fans young and old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Suffering from superhero fatigue? Well, you wouldn’t be alone. It seems that so many Marvel movies have come down the pipeline the past few years that it’s difficult just to keep up with them all. The latest entry is Spider-Man: Far from Home, and it marks the final film in what the studio refers to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":18656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[197,741,2087,4668,10179,13333,13341,14522,14803,15993,17598,18035,18839,18841,18842,18843,18844,23019,24759],"class_list":["post-18654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-197","tag-adaptation","tag-avengers","tag-comic-book","tag-jake-gyllenhaal","tag-marvel","tag-marvel-universe","tag-mysterio","tag-nick-fury","tag-peter-parker","tag-samuel-l-jackson","tag-sequel","tag-spider-man","tag-spider-man-far-from-home","tag-spider-man-far-from-home-film-review","tag-spider-man-far-from-home-movie-review","tag-spider-man-far-from-home-review","tag-tom-holland","tag-zendaya"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}