If there's one thing that Spider-Man: No Way Home should win an Oscar for, it's for proving once and for all that Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man is the best Spider-Man. LacyMB explains:
. A riotous blend of nostalgia and unvarnished fan service, it manages to fuse two decades of comic book movie history into something that’s part celebration, part weird apology and part extended Marvel fix-it fic that tries to right many of the wrongs of the previous two Spider-Man film series. The end result certainly has its moments: Tom Holland actually gets to really act with someone who isn’t Robert Downey Jr.
But it’s also a film that reminds us how essential Tobey Maguire’s original Peter Parker has always been—not only to the film evolution of Spider-Man as a character but our understanding of what superhero stories are supposed to do and be. As much as we are all obsessed with the entertainment behemoth that is the MCU, Marvel movies aren’t exactly known for their heart.
This Peter is aggressively normal, unabashedly sentimental and sincere in a way that so much of the MCU is rarely allowed to be. The animated film. He has certainly seen some shit, but even in the wake of an apparent lifetime of mistakes and setbacks, he’s still struggling to be his best self. Things with his Mary Jane are apparently “complicated” in his universe and he’s clearly worn out by everything that life has thrown at him as the MCU’s apparent true elder statesman.
Maybe it’s the fact that we’ve all gotten older alongside this Peter—and who among us isn’t worn out and battling random, inexplicable back pain these days?—but there’s something genuinely emotional about watching a man who has made mistakes and learned from them, who has done the wrong thing and seen what it costs, but keeps trying to do better anyway. Still trying, after all this time. It’s a dramatic and painfully timely reminder that goodness—that being a hero—isn’t a character trait.
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