Just saw this today.
As expected, I enjoyed it but it wasn't the best. Tom Holland is a great Spiderman. Came off believably as young, insecure and yet totally full of himself. I liked his friend too, his 'guy in the chair.'
Keaton was good, as usual, but to me his transition at the start to 'bad-guy' was awfully quick. But, they didn't have much time to do it in, so I can forgive it. He was intense in that car scene and his motivations were believable. The end fight scene felt a bit rushed though.
Happy I was not happy with. He wasn't paying attention at all to Peter and seeing where he was going. He had a 'brush off' mentality that didn't do the character any justice.
Then Stark, I always like him, but I would much rather there wasn't so much of an Avengers tie-in. It felt less like a 'Spiderman' movie and more of an Avengers movie.
I did like that Peter turned them down at the end. At least for the moment, and that it caught Tony and Co. flat-footed as well. Pepper and the ring were some nice touches.
I don't think it was worthy of top-billing though. She was like third or forth in the credits for less than three minutes of screen time which was a WTF for the other actors who had put a
lot more time in.
Best scene was Peter saving himself from under the rubble. Like Iron Man, the suit is not who you are.
Weakest scene was the boat save. Not because Peter didn't save the boat, but because it was basically
unsavable. The keel was sliced in half, so that thing should have gone down no matter what Peter or Tony did. Both halves should have sunk at different rates as well, and no matter how much you weld above the waterline, if you don't seal the hull then it's just one piece going down instead of two.
Another reason why it's the weakest, is that it was basically a rip-off of the Spiderman 2 train scene.
I did like this MJ, but I wish there had been more of her in favor of the 'popular' girl.
Another thing I liked about Stark was his reference to Peter's IMs. Right there you knew that though Happy was not reading them, Tony was.
Although, after the boat scene he's all over Peter for not leaving the Vulture alone. However, he never said that they (the Avengers or the FBI) were taking care of it. He just left Peter thinking that no one was handling it and that then he (as Spiderman) should.
He left Peter thinking he wasn't being taken seriously, when all Tony had to do was tell Peter he would look into and not to worry about it.
Anyway... I liked it overall. I was laughing and chuckling quite a bit, especially with the end scene! Aunt May standing in the background and then going, 'what the F-' and then cutting to the credits was sweet.
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