it also features Spider-Man, the local hero of Queens, who’s there to sign autographs-and who, of course, remains silent, to avoid being identified with the sixteen-year-old Peter.
The victims’ benefit, at a Salvation Army hall, is a public event featuring May Parker (Marisa Tomei), Peter’s aunt and guardian, as m.c. Unfortunately, the director of “Far from Home,” Jon Watts, and the film’s screenwriters, Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers, stick only briefly with the dislocation caused by the Blip before quickly leveraging it into far more conventional heroics and a far simpler dramatic dilemma. (Imagine if Steven Soderbergh had the chance to direct a Marvel movie, and the world-building feast of civic fantasy that he might have made of the comedies, melodramas, and perhaps even tragedies resulting from the sudden return of Blip victims.) That’s why one character, a Blipee, complains that his little brother (who didn’t blip) is now his older brother.
Now, five years later, the victims of the Blip have all come back, with results that are somewhat comedic: when those who “blipped out” returned, they nonetheless remained exactly the same age as at the time they left. The incorporation of the prior movies’ plot twists into each new work in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is a formidable screenwriting challenge, and the makers of “Far from Home” meet that challenge with a graceful wit that, unfortunately, isn’t matched by much else in the movie.Įarly on in “Far from Home,” there’s a clip from a memorial video tribute to Tony Stark, Black Widow, and others among “Endgame” ’s departed, which is being shown in Peter’s school, ahead of a benefit event for victims of “the Blip”-the catastrophic event, shown in “Infinity War,” that wiped out half the world’s population. “Spider-Man: Far from Home,” starring Tom Holland as the Queens teen-ager Peter Parker, rapidly intertwines the big events that capped the “Avengers” cycle-Thanos’s mass obliteration of half of humanity and of half the Avengers, in “ Infinity War,” and the return of those victims coupled with the (likely definitive) deaths of other heroes, in “ Endgame”-with the conventional high-school life that Peter leads when he’s not Spider-Man.
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