After several attempts with the character, Marvel finally found a way to make Spider-Man interesting. Originally introduced in Captain America: Civil War, this movie focuses on what happens to Peter Parker after Civil War. Let’s get right down to it.

A while back, people were cleaning salvage from wreckage in New York City after the aliens attacked. The company that was clearing the wreckage was put out of business by Stark’s new Damage Control program. This however does make these people resort to a life of crime after some alien technology is stolen and used by these people. The head of the construction crew was Adrian Toomes, played by Michael Keaton, undertakes a transformation as he and his group start to make money off of the stolen alien technology by stealing even more of it. Toomes adopts the alias of “Vulture” and sets out to steal more.

Peter on the other hand, is stuck in New York, waiting for the “next big fight” but it never seems to come. Peter is stuck being a small town hero for now, where he tries to stop small crimes being committed like people stealing bikes and eventually gets to a bank robbery with people wearing masks of the avengers. He stops them until they use a weapon that demolishes a building and causes it to start to crumble, where he leaves and saves the people inside, but the robbers escape. This is one case where we see the alien technology used. We meet Peter’s friend, Ned Leeds, who eventually discovers that Peter is Spider-Man and he takes up a more techie kind of role as these types characters usually do. We also meet Michelle “MJ” Jones who, in my opinion at least was a character that we never really needed in the movie to begin with. She was awkward and didn’t provide much until she covered for Peter when he missed the contest he was supposed to be at until there was a problem and he left to fix it as Spider-Man. Peter also likes a girl named Liz, a senior who eventually asks him to homecoming, clearly not realistic but it’s not the most outlandish thing in a superhero movie. Peter has his aunt help him get ready for homecoming by teaching him to dance and get him all dressed up but this is all for nothing when he goes to pick up Liz and meets her father, who is none other than Adrian Toomes, or rather the Vulture, the villain using the alien technology that Spider-Man has been chasing down for most of the film. Peter acts strange enough for Toomes to get suspicious until a car ride to homecoming confirms his suspicions, Peter is Spider-Man. Toomes and Peter have “the talk” or at least that’s what Adrian said when he lied to his daughter before he sprang a gun on the teenager and threatened him. Vulture and Parker get into a fight after Parker leaves homecoming to stop him from steal from a plane full of salvage. Eventually, things escalate and Vulture is caught in a tough spot, which Peter uses to save him and arrest him. With Toomes in Jail, Liz tells Peter she’s moving. Meanwhile, Michelle is named the president of the club and Peter is given a major opportunity by Tony Stark but he passes on it, believing it is a test (he passes on a new suit and a spot on the avengers).

“Homecoming is just what you’d expect out of a Marvel film, great action, great humor, and a great story. It was well placed and truly made you experience a character in a very relatable way” says Junior Kody Swartwood on the film. “The only bad thing I’d say about the film would be the overall use of characters. Tony felt like a forced father figure whose only purpose was to make Peter’s situation more difficult than it had to be so it could lead up to the ending, the main villain in the beginning is easy to sympathize with since he loses his job but over time his actions become more obviously evil even though he seems to think he is justified in doing so”