Some of my favorite parts of the film were the John Hughes-esque humor. The MCU continues its trend of giving their characters a specific "genre" for their movies by giving Spidey the "teen movie" genre. And it works so well here for the most part. The only thing I really had issue with was making pretty much all of the supporting characters "math nerds." Liz Allen, Flash Thompson, Michelle ... All of them. There needed to be more variety with the type of kids in high school. I would have been more okay with Flash being a nerd if they had delved into the "rival" thing a bit more and delved more into him being a rich brat too. It's not a huge deal though, as Flash IS just a supporting character, but I can't help but think that I would have preferred either developing him a bit more or just making him a jock again.
Speaking of which, the only thing about this movie that I can say that I flat-out disliked was making Michelle into "MJ." It reads as bad fanfiction. Just let Michelle be Michelle. No need to turn her into "Not Mary Jane." I hope this gets dropped in the next movie, because it's stupid. No bueno.
At first, I was NOT feeling all of the tech with Spider-Man's suit, or the amount of time spent on it. However, I see the point in why they took this route (in terms of his story and character arc with Tony), and I think it had payoff in the end. Based on what I saw in the trailers, I was hoping that we would see Peter say "no" to Tony either letting him have the suit back or being a part of the Avengers at the end of the movie. When that DID happen, my lil' heart swelled up so much.
That's the Spidey I know and love!
Best part of the movie for me. It was beautiful. I plan on seeing the movie again, and I think I will enjoy these parts a lot more upon rewatch.
I might get a lot of hate for this, but while Michael Keaton was very good in this movie, I wouldn't call Vulture the best Spidey movie villain since Doc Ock. I'd say he's about as good as Sandman (who I overall loved in Spider-Man 3; come at me bro). This is by no means a knock against Vulture. It's just that if I had to rank the Spidey villains, this is how I would rank 'em.
In terms of the action, I thought it was very generic. I don't know what else to say, except that it didn't really "wow" me. It was fine. I hate to say it, but, I've seen what Spidey can do on the big screen before ... And I've seen him do more fantastical things before, too (in Civil War, even). This might be the weakest link of the movie for me. Also, the next movie needs to figure out how to showcase the Spider Sense, because this movie led me to believe that Spidey doesn't even have them in the MCU.