Review of Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) by Clairependragon — 13 Sep 2019

Its not really "Boring", but it feels as if it was written by different writers.

Action sequences no longer feel like a story/event is unfolding, but more about how we can cram as many unique camera angles/posses in as possible.

Once the fight starts, you already know everything that will happen, the only "unique" situations, are the ones that dont use combat/action. (But do lack good dialogue to compliment them.) I did zone out during the action sequences, and the "unique" sequences, since they were no where near as good as the prior marvel movies. (Neither in spectacle, nor in story progression.).

The actual "plot" feels too forced, making peter change his "go get em" personality too much, for the sake of plot. (plus there's not really much going on with the plot, except the end credit scene, which is the only part worth seeing.).

This is no where near as bad as Thor2 or Ironman2, so if you like the characters, its still ok to watch.

But be warned, even the comedy of this movie is different.

In the prior movie(s) the comedy is a byproduct.

Meaning, things would be set up for the progression of the plot. Comedy acted more as a means to make fun of the awkwardness of situations the plot required.

If somebody has to do something weird, they make fun of it.

But in this movie, they completely set up the plot solely to make jokes. The set up has nothing to do with the plot, nor its progression, and nor are they makeing fun of situations. instead, the plot changes direction, so they could squeeze in jokes that just arent as good as prior ones. It ends up coming off too corny.

Example: Two people start dating for no real reason, other than for a gag. They also stop dating, also for a gag.

It had no reason to be there, it doesnt help the plot, and it wasnt funny. (It was predictable due to how jokes run.).

Another example is Flash. In the 1st movie his Dads car gets taken, and wrecked, yet he loves spiderman in this movie, all for a joke. In the prior, spiderman called flash by his name, in this one, flash is surprised spiderman knows who he is, all for a joke.

This isnt to say all jokes in the movie are bad, there's some funny ones. But too many of the jokes arent funny, and are the "reverse" method of "It doesnt take itself too seriously". Instead, it jumps from taking itself too seriously, to not taking itself seriously enough, and hardly meets in the middle.

Hopefully Sony learns from this, if they ever plan to use Tom Holland again. (Probably not, they look at money signs, and see the billion dollar profits, and dont see connections like "people came to see this, to see where the MCU will go after endgame. And some people grew to like spiderman in the prior movies, so they hoped for an equally good story here.".

This has a lot of similar vibes as Venom did, but w/o the initial flare of "new/shiney" that introducing a new main character has.