Spider-Man: Far From Home (Spoilers)

Fun movie! 

I really enjoyed the humor, the special effects, and all the action.  It's doesn't come close to Endgame in order of magnitude, but that's a good thing.  After the heaviness of the last two Avengers movies, we all needed a light-hearted romp.

And that's about all I can really say without MAJOR SPOILERS.  So read further at your own risk.

First things first:  Of course Mysterio turns out to be a bad guy.  I don't think anyone expected differently.  I know a few people speculated that he was going to be good throughout this movie, only to turn evil in the end credits to set up a sequel (like Sinestro in Green Lantern, which also wasn't much of a secret).  But nope, he shows his true colors halfway through the movie.

And that's cool.  This movie isn't serious enough to have a lot of layers.  Jake Gyllenhaal does a decent job playing both (false) friend and villain.  The scene that reveals his treachery to the audience is over-the-top and very comic bookish, which I thought was awesome.

My wife didn't like Spidey's first fight with Mysterio, where he's stuck in multiple layers of illusion.  She thought it was too overdone, but personally I loved it.  It reminded me of something out of the cartoons.  I really loved the final fight against the drones creating the illusion.  That was some crazy action and beautiful SFX.

I didn't really care for any of Spidey's outfits in the movie, but I loved the "passing the torch" scene where Peter uses Tony's tech to design the outfit.  The stealth suit was just boring, barely even a Spider-Man suit.  The one Peter designs is just his normal suit with black replacing the blue.  I hate to say it, but Spider-Man's suit is one of the few super hero outfits that looks worse when you darken it.  Spidey needs to be colorful, yo.

Okay, so we have to talk about the credits scenes.  Mid-credits we have Spidey being framed for Mysterio's crimes, and the world finding out he's Peter Parker.  I have no idea where they're going to go with this, though similar events have happened in the comics.  I wonder if they're going to just keep his identity public (let's face it, most of the MCU heroes don't even have secret identities), or if they'll magic that knowledge away somehow (paging Doctor Strange).

Of course the biggest bombshell dropped at the ass end of the credits.  Nick Fury is a skrull.  How long has this been true?  When was the switch?  I'm sure fans are going to be debating this one for a long time.

My wife thinks it was between Winter Soldier and Age of Ultron, during the time he faked his death.  Or possibly very recently, around Endgame.  That could make sense, since Captain Marvel was back on Earth at the time.  She might have brought Talos with her. 

But I have a feeling they're saying he's been a skrull since Captain Marvel.  If this is true, then Talos!Fury is the Fury we've known throughout most of the series.  This means there's nothing to really get mad about.  Fury is still the same guy we've always known and loved, it's just that he was actually a friendly alien shapeshifter (in every movie except for Captain Marvel, of course).  We lose nothing, really.

So I don't mind if it turns out he's been Talos since the 90s.  I also don't mind if it turns out they switched at the end of Endgame (probably before Tony's funeral, since Talos!Fury mentions he saw Peter at the funeral).  But I hope it doesn't turn out they switched halfway through the series.  I don't like the idea that the first ten movies was one Fury, and the rest of them were a different Fury.  That just bothers me, because it interrupts the continuity of the character.

Again, great movie.  I enjoyed the hell out of it.  I currently have it at #9 on my ranked list of MCU movies.

I'm going to close this blog with a video of Beach Buggy Racing.  I know that has nothing to do with Spider-Man, but my wife and I spend the video discussing the movie.