'Spider-Man: Far From Home,' But Still On Familiar Ground

For as good as it is, there's just no way to receive Spider-Man: Far From Home as anything more than a vestigial tale, as it were, on the Marvel saga. It's an earnest, well-performed, lovably shaggy radioactive specimen that can't help feeling doubly premature for arriving only half a year after the rapturous Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and a whopping two months behind Avengers: Endgame, the MCU's monumental punctuation mark.

Some Marvel Fatigue was inevitable. This is the built around old web-head this century; no other hero has been the solo headliner for so many. (Never mind that several of his adventures — like is the fifth film in a little more than three years to feature Tom Holland as Peter Parker. It runs two-and-a-quarter hours, which has become typical fighting weight for these movies. Given all that, it's remarkable manages to be as bright and buoyant a diversion as it is.