<em>Spider-Man: Far From Home</em> Satirizes the Way Marvel Movies Are Made
A final twist reveals the film’s true villain—and offers a layered critique of the systems that bring superheroes to the screen.
This article contains major spoilers for Spider-Man: Far From Home.
Spider-Man, transformed from the page into a live-action hero, has become a cartoon again. I’m not referring to the myriad animated series revolving around the superhero, or to last year’s phenomenal film ; I’m talking about the Spider-Man played by Tom Holland. In his five Marvel movies—the most recent of which is —many of the scenes that feature the costumed hero in action are filmed through and rendered via sophisticated CGI, a. “We didn’t even attempt to shoot a lot of the action practically on set—we did it all in mo-cap,” he said.
