In Spider-Man: Far From Home, the teenage wall crawler leaves Queens behind and heads to Europe on a class trip. In Homecoming , Tom Holland's first go as the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, the emphasis was on the neighborhood. With it's corner bodegas and suburban enclaves that film was a pleasant reminder that there is more to New York City than midtown Manhattan. In one memorable scene a frustrated Spider-man has to run to save the day on foot, as there are no skyscrapers to swing from in Forest Park. Everything is on a larger scale this time around; both the scenery and the destruction. While the film often plays like a teenage romantic comedy from the 80s, the fact that our awkward lovestruck hero is secretly a web spinning Avenger is fair warning that this trip will be interrupted by large scale mayhem. The destruction is courtesy of four "elementals", cosmic beings from a parallel universe. They have already destroyed earth in that dimension an...
"You must watch their shadows, not the puppets." - Billy Kwan, The Year of Living Dangerously.