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Peter Parker balances his life as an ordinary high school student in Queens with his superhero alter-ego Spider-Man, and finds himself on the trail of a new menace prowling the skies of New York City.
Spider Man Homecoming is a 2017 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man, co-produced by Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. It is the second Spider-Man film reboot and the 16th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).
The film was directed by Jon Watts, from a screenplay by the writing teams of Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, Watts and Christopher Ford, and Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers. Tom Holland stars as Peter Parker / Spider-Man, alongside Michael Keaton, Jon Favreau, Gwyneth Paltrow, Zendaya, Donald Glover, Jacob Batalon, Laura Harrier, Tony Revolori, Bokeem Woodbine, Tyne Daly, Marisa Tomei, and Robert Downey Jr. In Spider-Man: Homecoming, Peter Parker tries to balance high school life with being Spider-Man while facing the Vulture (Keaton).
In February 2015, Marvel Studios and Sony reached a deal to share the film rights for Spider-Man, integrating the character into the established MCU. The following June, Holland was cast as the title character, and Watts was hired to direct.
This was followed shortly by the hiring of Daley and Goldstein. In April 2016, the film’s title was revealed, along with additional cast, including Downey in his MCU role of Tony Stark / Iron Man. Principal photography began in June 2016 at Pinewood Atlanta Studios in Fayette County, Georgia, and continued in Atlanta, Los Angeles, and New York City. The other screenwriters were revealed during filming, which concluded in Berlin in October 2016. The production team made efforts to differentiate the film from previous Spider-Man films.
Spider-Man: Homecoming premiered in Hollywood on June 28, 2017, and was released in the United States on July 7, as part of Phase Three of the MCU. Homecoming grossed over $880 million worldwide, becoming the second-most-successful Spider-Man film and the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2017.
It received praise for the light tone, its focus on Parker’s high school life, and the performances, particularly of Holland and Keaton. Two sequels have been released: Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021). A new trilogy of live-action films from Sony and Marvel Studios is in development.
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“Spider-Man: Homecoming” sees Peter Parker being shunted aside by his adult mentors Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) and Happy Hogan (Jon Favreau) to tackle the more down-to-earth challenges of high school on his own.
These include Parker’s pushy best friend Ned (Jacob Batalon), who wants to know all about Peter’s “internship” at Stark Enterprises; the High School Academic Decathlon (College Bowl for high schoolers, that is), whose captain Liz (Laura Harrier) Peter has a major crush on; and Peter’s guardian Aunt May (Marisa Tomei) from whom Peter must hide his amateur crime-fighting activities as Spider Man, and protect from the possibly wayward affections of a local sandwich shop manager.
This version of Peter Parker is less cocky than the prior incarnations of recent years. He is also rather whiny a lot of he time. The Peter Parker I grew up with was agonizingly tetchy, but he didn’t hunch over like a weasel whenever he had to get out of a social situation to go fight crime. While Holland hunches over with sincerity and skill, I have to admit I am not enthralled by this variation on the teen superhero’s alter-ego (I don’t think I got it right this time either). Peter Parker as nerd, I can roll with; Peter Parker as dork, not so much.
As someone who’s kind of trained to notice such things, I might say “This movie really wastes the talents of Hannibal Buress and Martin Starr”; whereas a less concerned person will see these performers and say, “Oh yeah, those guys are funny.” Marvel movies are not concerned with altering your precious bodily fluids. This one is a slightly better than average example of the species. Watch it in good health.
- Glenn Kenny – Roger Ebert
- Glenn Kenny was the chief film critic of Premiere magazine for almost half of its existence. He has written for a host of other publications and resides in Brooklyn.
Spider Man Homecoming (2017) Credits
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
133 minutes
Cast
Tom Holland as Peter Parker / Spider-Man
Michael Keaton as Adrian Toomes / Vulture
Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark / Iron Man
Marisa Tomei as May Parker
Jon Favreau as Happy Hogan
Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts
Zendaya as Michelle
Donald Glover as Aaron Davis
Jacob Batalon as Ned
Laura Harrier as Liz
Tony Revolori as Flash
Director
- Jon Watts
Writer (based on the Marvel comic book by)
- Stan Lee
- Steve Ditko
Writer (screen story by)
- Jonathan Goldstein
- John Francis Daley
Writer
- Jonathan Goldstein
- John Francis Daley
- Jon Watts
- Christopher Ford
- Chris McKenna
- Erik Sommers
Cinematoagrapher
- Salvatore Totino
Editor
- Debbie Berman
- Dan Lebental
Composer
- Michael Giacchino
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Spider Man Homecoming (2017) Plot
Following the Battle of New York in 2012, Adrian Toomes and his salvage company are contracted to clean up the city, but their operation is taken over by the Department of Damage Control (DODC), a partnership between Tony Stark and the U.S. government. Enraged at being driven out of business, Toomes persuades his employees to keep the Chitauri technology they have already scavenged and use it to create and sell advanced weapons, including a flying Vulture suit Toomes uses to steal Chitauri power cells.
Eight years later,[N 2] Peter Parker is drafted into the Avengers by Stark to help with an internal dispute in Berlin,[N 3] but resumes his studies at the Midtown School of Science and Technology when Stark tells him he is not yet ready to become a full Avenger. Parker quits his school’s academic decathlon team to spend more time focusing on his crime-fighting activities as Spider-Man. His best friend, Ned, eventually discovers his secret identity.
Parker comes across Toomes’ associates Jackson Brice / Shocker and Herman Schultz selling weapons to local criminal Aaron Davis. Parker saves Davis before being caught by Toomes in the Vulture suit and dropped in a lake, nearly drowning after becoming tangled in a parachute built into his suit. He is rescued by Stark, who is monitoring the Spider-Man suit he gave Parker and warns him against further involvement with the criminals. Toomes accidentally kills Brice with one of their weapons and Schultz becomes the new Shocker.
Parker and Ned study a weapon Brice left behind, removing its power core. When a tracking device on Schultz leads to Maryland, Parker rejoins the decathlon team and accompanies them to Washington, D.C. for their national tournament. Ned and Parker disable the tracker Stark implanted in the Spider-Man suit, and unlock its advanced features. Parker tries to stop Toomes from stealing weapons from a DODC truck but is trapped inside, causing him to miss the decathlon tournament.
When he discovers that the power core is an unstable Chitauri grenade, he races to the Washington Monument, where the core explodes and traps Ned and their friends in an elevator. Parker saves them, including his classmate and crush Liz. Days later, in New York City, aboard the Staten Island Ferry, Parker captures Toomes’ new buyer Mac Gargan but Toomes escapes and a malfunctioning weapon tears the ferry in half. Stark helps Parker save the passengers and confiscates his suit as punishment for his recklessness.
Parker returns to his high school life, and asks Liz to go to the homecoming dance with him. On the night of the dance, he discovers that Toomes is Liz’s father. Deducing Parker’s secret identity, Toomes threatens him. Parker realizes Toomes is planning to hijack a DODC plane transporting weapons from Avengers Tower to the team’s new headquarters. He leaves the dance, dons his old homemade Spider-Man suit, and races to Toomes’ lair. Though he is ambushed outside by Schultz, he defeats him with Ned’s help.
Inside, Toomes attacks Parker, destroying the building’s support columns, and leaves Parker to die, trapped in the rubble of the collapsed building. Parker escapes and intercepts the plane, steering it to crash on the beach near Coney Island. He and Toomes continue fighting, ending with Parker saving Toomes’ life after the damaged Vulture suit explodes. Parker leaves Toomes for the police along with the plane’s cargo.
After her father’s arrest, Liz moves away. Parker declines an invitation from Stark to join the Avengers full-time, and Stark proposes to Pepper Potts. Stark also returns the Spider-Man suit to Parker, who puts it on just as his aunt May walks in.
In a mid-credits scene, an incarcerated Gargan approaches Toomes in prison, saying he has heard that the latter knows Spider-Man’s real identity, though Toomes denies this.
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Spider Man Homecoming (2017) Box office
Spider-Man: Homecoming grossed over $334.2 million in the United States and Canada, and $546 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $880.2 million. The film had the second-biggest global IMAX opening for a Sony film with $18 million. In May 2017, a survey from Fandango indicated that Homecoming was the second-most-anticipated summer blockbuster behind Wonder Woman.
By September 24, 2017, the film had earned $874.4 million worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing superhero film of 2017, and the sixth-largest film based on a Marvel character. Deadline Hollywood calculated the film’s net profit as $200.1 million, accounting for production budgets, marketing, talent participations, and other costs; box office grosses and home media revenues placed it seventh on their list of 2017’s “Most Valuable Blockbusters”.[240]
The film earned $50.9 million on its opening day in the United States and Canada (including $15.4 million from Thursday night previews), and had a total weekend gross of $117 million, the top film for the weekend. It was the second-highest opening for both a Spider-Man film and a Sony film, after Spider-Man 3‘s $151.1 million debut in 2007.
Early projections for the film from BoxOffice had it earning $135 million in its opening weekend, which was later adjusted to $125 million, and Deadline Hollywood noting industry projections at anywhere between $90–120 million. In its second weekend, the film fell to second behind War for the Planet of the Apes with $44.2 million, a 62% decline in earnings, which was similar to the declines The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3 had in their second weekends.
Additionally, Homecoming‘s domestic gross reached $208.3 million, which surpassed the total domestic gross of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 ($202.9 million). The film fell to third in its third weekend. By July 26, Homecoming‘s domestic gross reached $262.1 million, surpassing the total domestic gross of The Amazing Spider-Man ($262 million), leading to a fifth-place finish for its fourth weekend. The next weekend, Homecoming finished sixth, and finished seventh the following five weekends.
By September 3, 2017, the film had earned $325.1 million, surpassing the $325 million projected amount for its total domestic gross. In its eleventh weekend, Homecoming finished ninth.[254]
Outside of the United States and Canada, Spider-Man: Homecoming earned $140.5 million its opening weekend from the 56 markets it opened in, with the film becoming number one in 50 of them. The $140.5 million was the highest opening ever for a Spider-Man film. South Korea had the highest Wednesday opening day gross, which contributed to a $25.4 million five-day opening in the country, the third-highest opening ever for a Hollywood film. Brazil had the largest July opening day of all time, with $2 million, leading to an opening weekend total of $8.9 million.
The $7 million earned from IMAX showings was the top opening of all time for a Sony film internationally. In its second weekend, the film opened in France at number one and number two in Germany. It earned an additional $11.9 million in South Korea, to bring its total in the country to $42.2 million. This made Homecoming the highest-grossing Spider-Man film and the top-grossing Hollywood film of 2017 in the country.
Brazil contributed an additional $5.7 million, for a total of $19.4 million from the country, which was also the largest gross from a Spider-Man film.[256] The film’s third weekend saw the Latin America region set a record as the highest-grossing Spider-Man film of all time, with a region total of $77.4 million. Brazil remained the top-grossing market for the region, with $25.7 million. In South Korea, the film became the 10th-highest-grossing international release of all time.[257] Homecoming opened at number one in Spain in its fourth weekend.
In its sixth weekend, the film opened at number one in Japan, with its $770,000 from IMAX the fourth-largest IMAX weekend for a Marvel film in the country.[259] The film opened at number one in China on September 8, 2017, grossing $23 million on its opening day, including Thursday previews, making it the third biggest opening day for a Marvel Cinematic Universe film, behind Avengers: Age of Ultron and Captain America: Civil War, and the largest opening day gross for a Sony film in the country.
The $70.8 million Homecoming earned in China for its opening weekend was the third-highest opening behind Age of Ultron and Civil War, with $6 million from IMAX, which was the best IMAX opening weekend in September, and the best IMAX opening weekend for a Sony film.[225] As of September 24, 2017, the film’s largest markets were China ($115.7 million),[239] South Korea ($51.4 million), and the United Kingdom ($34.8 million).
Spider Man Homecoming (2017) Critical Response
The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 92%, with an average score of 7.7/10, based on 398 reviews. The website’s critical consensus reads, “Spider-Man: Homecoming does whatever a second reboot can, delivering a colorful, fun adventure that fits snugly in the sprawling MCU without getting bogged down in franchise-building.”
Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 73 out of 100, based on 51 critics, indicating “generally favorable reviews”. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of “A” on an A+ to F scale, while PostTrak reported filmgoers gave it an 89% overall positive score and a 74% “definite recommend”.[102]
Sara Stewart of the New York Post praised the film as “an endearingly awkward kid brother to the glamorous Wonder Woman“, attributing much of the “heavy-lifting” to Holland’s performance and the “perfectly cast” Keaton. She also noted Watts’ focus on Parker’s human side. Mike Ryan at Uproxx felt Homecoming was the best Spider-Man film yet, specifically praising the light tone, younger and more optimistic portrayal of Parker, and Keaton’s performance—Ryan named the Vulture twist reveal as one of his favorite scenes in the MCU.
He said Homecoming is “the kind of movie you leave and you’re just in the best mood—and still will be days later.” Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times called the film unique and refreshing, praising its lower stakes and focus on the character’s school life. He praised Holland as “terrific and well-cast”, as well as the other cast members; Roeper believed that Keaton’s performance is more interesting than the character otherwise could have been.
Owen Gleiberman of Variety felt the film was “just distinctive enough” from the previous Spider-Man films to become a “sizable hit”, and highlighted its focus on making Peter Parker a realistically youthful and grounded character. He found Holland to be likable in the role and thought the Vulture twist was a positive direction for that character.
He did criticize the vague take on Spider-Man’s origin and powers, but “the flying action has a casual flip buoyancy, and the movie does get you rooting for Peter.” At IndieWire, David Ehrlich criticized the film’s superhero genre clichés and underwritten female characters, but praised the elements of the film that leaned into Parker’s high school life and the humanity of the Vulture.
Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times gave the film a mixed review, criticizing the “juvenile” depiction of Parker and Watts’ “unevenly orchestrated” direction, but feeling that the film “finds its pace and rhythm by the end” and praising Keaton’s performance. The Hollywood Reporter‘s John DeFore found the film to be “occasionally exciting but often frustrating”, and suggested it might have worked better if less focus had been put on integrating the film with the MCU. DeFore did praise Holland’s performance as “winning” despite the script, and called Zendaya a scene-stealer.
Mick LaSalle, writing for the San Francisco Chronicle, said the film was a “pretty good Spider-Man movie” that “breaks no new ground”, not exploring the human side of the character enough and instead focusing on action that is not thrilling. At The Telegraph, Robbie Collin argued that “a little of the new Spider-Man went an exhilaratingly long way in Captain America: Civil War last year. But a lot of him goes almost nowhere in this slack and spiritless solo escapade.” Collin criticized Watts’ direction but was positive of the cast, including Holland, Keaton, Tomei, and Zendaya.
Spider Man Homecoming (2017) Accolades
| Year | Award | Category | Recipient(s) | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Teen Choice Awards | Choice Breakout Movie Star | Tom Holland | Nominated | |
| Zendaya | Nominated | ||||
| Choice Summer Movie | Spider-Man: Homecoming | Won | |||
| Choice Summer Movie Actor | Tom Holland | Won | |||
| Choice Summer Movie Actress | Zendaya | Won | |||
| Washington D.C. Film Critics Awards | The Joe Barber Award for Best Portrayal of Washington, D.C. | Spider-Man: Homecoming | Nominated | ||
| 2018 | Kids’ Choice Awards | Favorite Movie | Spider-Man: Homecoming | Nominated | |
| Favorite Movie Actress | Zendaya[N 4] | Won | |||
| Saturn Awards | Best Comic-to-Motion Picture Release | Spider-Man: Homecoming | Nominated | ||
| Best Supporting Actor in a Film | Michael Keaton | Nominated | |||
| Best Performance by a Younger Actor in a Film | Tom Holland | Won | |||
| Zendaya | Nominated |
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