Someday we’ll all look back at all these Marvel superhero movies and identify a few standouts. Will they include the original Iron Man? Captain America: Winter Soldier? Ant-Man? Guardians of the Galaxy? As for the big team-up films, they will be difficult to differentiate. Superhero punches superhero. Big things blow up, but bigger this time and the next time and the next. This year’s big team-up entry didn’t have the “Avengers” title but it was every bit the same: Captain America: Civil War. It could have just as easily been called Iron Man: Civil War. Or The Avengers III: Civil War. But Captain America: Civil War got the blockbuster team-up right with one big stretch of awesome.
It all began with the entrance of the new Spider-man, played by Tom Holland–the unprecedented third actor to play a big-screen Marvel character. Once Spider-man met Robert Downey, Jr.’s Tony Stark, the movie took off and didn’t let up until Black Widow allowed Team Captain America to escape. For young Spidey to hold his own with Captain America, Ant-Man, Giant Man, Scarlet Witch, and the Falcon, credit goes to Holland for a pretty good feat.
Earlier this week Marvel Studios released a teaser trailer and tonight the studio added the full trailer for Spider-man: Homecoming, an incredibly refreshing-looking superhero flick clearly built with the off-the-wall flavor of humor found in Marvel’s Ant-Man and Deadpool. New odd, lanky, voice-changing, and nerdy Tom Holland (Wolf Hall) has that spark and jolt of energy we didn’t quite see with prior Spider-men Tobey Maguire or Andrew Garfield.
This new trailer alone runs circles around anything in the prior Spider-man movies. Be among the first to check out Holland in this first international trailer for Spider-man: Homecoming:
Here is the U.S. trailer that also was just released:
And in case you missed it, the teaser released earlier:
And just look at that supporting cast: Downey, Jr. returns with Jon Favreau, Academy Award winning actress Marisa Tomei returns as Aunt May, Michael Keaton is the new villain, plus Community star and new Lando Calrissian Donald Glover, Dirty Harry and TV’s Tyne Daly, Baskets’ Martha Kelly, and The Nice Guys’ Angourie Rice.
Also, what a good choice using the catchy “Time to Pretend” by MGMT, also heard in the opening of the great card-counting film 21.
Look for Spider-man: Homecoming in theaters July 7, 2017.
C.J. Bunce
Editor
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