{"id":146128,"date":"2019-07-07T22:24:34","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T04:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=146128"},"modified":"2019-07-07T22:24:34","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T04:24:34","slug":"a-non-spoiler-spider-man-far-from-home-quick-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/07\/a-non-spoiler-spider-man-far-from-home-quick-review.html","title":{"rendered":"A non-spoiler “Spider-Man: Far from Home” quick review"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. This was a fun movie, with plenty of humor, plenty of heart, plenty of action, plenty of Spider-Man being Spider-Man (i.e., getting whomped on physically, emotionally, and situationally, but somehow finding enough moments of happiness to make his dedication to Great Responsibility worth it).<\/li>\n
  2. All those questions we had about how the world dealt with half of humanity returning after being snapped out of existence five years ago? A whole lot of them get answered (a bit glibly in places, but the MCU probably doesn’t need to deal with the cataclysmic economic disruption and likely mass starvation that would actually ensue).<\/li>\n
  3. Nothing is as it seems. Appearances can be deceiving.<\/em> That’s true for a lot of the movie — people, relationships, what’s obviously happening vs what’s really happening — and extends all the way through the (two) mid-credits scenes. It actually adds some layers of depth to an (also) enjoyable comic book action flick.<\/li>\n
  4. J K Simmons!<\/li>\n
  5. I really liked Mysterio. I can’t say anything more, but — I really did.<\/li>\n
  6. As someone in the middle of curating a bunch of vacation photos from Venice, seeing the kids (et al.) in Venice was a hoot.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I think this was a great installment in the MCU, Tom Holland continues to be worth his weight in Spidey-Gold; I definitely look forward to what is coming up next for both the hero and the setting.<\/p>\n

    Overall rating:\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

    Worth going to see!<\/p>\n

    Want a more spoilerish review? \u200e\u2018Spider-Man: Far from Home\u2019 review by Dave Hill \u2022 Letterboxd<\/a><\/p>\n

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    A fun movie, very Spidey, with some interesting themes layered in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[525,41],"tags":[1234,1953],"class_list":["post-146128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marvel-cinematic-universe","category-media-movies","tag-mcu","tag-spider-man"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/spider-man-far-from-home-poster.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135611,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/11\/movie-review-spider-man-homecoming-2017.html","url_meta":{"origin":146128,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: “Spider-Man: Homecoming” (2017)","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 11-Dec-17 8:35am","format":false,"excerpt":"Yeah, I know I'm late to the game with this one, because, honestly, I've been burned out on Spidey -- in movies and comic books -- for quite a while. 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