Spider-Man: Brand New Day - Movie Review

Spider-Man's back in a fourth film, finally! Technically speaking, Toby. Peter too was in Spider-Man No Way Home, and that was a fourth appearance, but he was still a guest in another Spider-Man's movie, to be honest and fair. But Tom Holland's Spider-Man's back for a brand new day, in a brand new day. It is indeed a brand new day, so let's talk about it. So Spider-Man Brand New Day is a new Spider-Man in the Tom Holland Spider-Man continuity, and it does feel like a brand new day. The previous films feel like a very linked trilogy. A trilogy prequel that existed to make Spider-Man Spider-Man in Manhattan. To make him Spider-Man as we know him, and now here we are. It's been a couple years since Doctor Strange and Peter Parker collaborated to brainwash the entire world into forgetting Peter Parker. Doesn't mean he's not still pining for his friends now, though. And he's having some stuff going on with his powers. This movie really does capitalize the words Spider because his powers are going on the fritz because of his emotional state. Man because everyone thinks he's fine, but he's just suffering the emotional weight and silence. Now the new threat looms, we have a new Spider-Man movie. How vague is this review gonna be? There's a whole thing, thing in this movie, otherwise known as the plot of the film, that's wrapped in spoilers, so I can't really talk about it. This is gonna be spoiler free. Spoiler talk video will be coming later this week, but until then, here are my very vague Spider-Man thoughts. First of all, right out the gate, Tom Holland is carrying this movie as Peter Parker, as Spider-Man. And he's in the zone, man. He has this down. Every actor has brought their own energy, their own angle, their own thing to the role of Peter Parker. This is a very emotionally weighty... Yeah, that works. I'm rolling with it. A story for Peter Parker, and Tom Holland absolutely sells it. It probably helps that he's not going to space, or for the most part, dealing with the bigger MCU here. It's very friendly neighborhood Spider-Man here, otherwise known as why people love Spider-Man in the first place. Because that's what this film hits home is, well, it's Spider-Man's life. It's why people connect with Spider-Man. Because we all know deep down there's a difference between the perception of someone, and the private weight they actually do carry in their lives. If you feel like you've seen those moments before in Spider-Man, will you have? In fact, this movie's very close to the inspiration of Raimi's Spider-Man. Spider-Man feels a certain way. His body's manifesting those feelings physically. When he has questions, he goes and talks to an iconic professor of the world. Well, in Spider-Man 2, I guess he went to a random doctor, but later in Spider-Man 3, he went to Dr. Connors. This time around, Bruce Banner. This movie does run into, are these characters in it for a point? Are they in it specifically, in this case, so the Hulk can be in here? Little of both. Definitely that second one. The first act to first half of this movie, you can argue the entire movie is this, but for me it was the first half or so, is the most Spider-Man feeling Spider-Man film since Raimi's Spider-Man 2. You got villains out there in costumes, there's no real explanation as to how they have their costumes or their outfits, they're just, they're out there. I think that's an advantage that the MCU's given Spider-Man, also the PS4 game. Time was. Cinematically speaking, you couldn't have a Spider-Man villain just have their costume and be the villain without a good explanation as to how. Granted, Michael Mando was the character in Spider-Man Homecoming, but he wasn't Scorpion yet. Now he's Scorpion, he has the tail, he has the suit. Don't ask how, don't question it, just go with it. But you do go with it. He's not in the movie that much. He is in the movie far more than Tombstone is. You know what really did work for me in here? Frank Castle and Spider-Man. Dude, they got great chemistry. That is to say, Jon Bernthal and Tom Holland have great chemistry. It felt like kind of a comic book buddy dynamic at a point, and it works because Frank Castle and Peter Parker have a very different perspective and ideology about criminal and how we deal with them. That works, and as much as there are characters in this movie that aren't in the movie as much as I thought they would be, Frank Castle's actually in the movie more than I thought he'd be, and I'm glad he was. It can be that the characters work because the characters don't feel that they work, and that friction is what makes them work. Yeah, they were great. Give me an entire Frank Castle, Spider-Man team-up film in the future. As much as the emotional moments, there's a lot of emotional strain with Peter Parker and his friends, or his friends who don't remember they were his friends, but he does, that's the painful part. As much as that does lead to some emotional moments that do hit, I do feel they probably could have trimmed some of that and made this movie closer to two hours. Two hours, 25 minutes. Probably didn't need to be that long. There is a post-credit scene. Thing is, it's not a mid-credit scene, it's a post, very end of the credits credit scene. Is it worth the wait? Not if you want to beat traffic. It does feel like an afterthought. Some of the critics in the auditorium, man, they all but boo. I did hear a couple boos. I kind of don't blame them. They could have whipped this thing up yesterday to put in the movie and then sent it out to be on the new digital prints, and that's that. And I believe the reference itself, if I'm seeing it correctly, is really cool. But you would be forgiven if you were like, that put the mid in mid-credit scene. Doesn't really make sense because it is a post-credit scene. Whatever. That's the thing you really do feel in here that I liked, is that Spider-Man is this optimistic, hopeful hero in New York that people love. No Jonah Jameson in this film. It's just all positive. Except for the emotional turmoil he's dealing with, but in terms of the public perception though, Some things that didn't really land for me are wrapped up in spoilers, so I can't really talk about them right now. But as for right now, I thought Spider-Man Brand-New Day was a fun Spider-Man movie. That vibe of the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man that I feel this movie does re-inject into Spider-Man's world. It's a little too long, but all in all, I had myself a really good time with Spider-Man Brand-New Day. No alcohol required. Alright, so Spider-Man Brand-New Day. Have you seen it? What did you think about it? You haven't seen it yet, but in a few days that question won't feel so weird, because you might have at that point. Or what's your favorite Spider-Man movie? Or you can rank them. It's always fun to do. Whatever it is, whatever you think, comment below, let me know. And as always, if you like what you've seen here and you want to see more, click right here to see more.