Currently at 92% on Rotten Tomatoes (read here for Wired’s declaration of kanly against Rotten Tomatoes, largely for its ability to generate phrases like that). Anyway, the reviews are starting to come in, and this line is particularly good:
Marvel movies succeed because they’re not just superhero movies. Captain America: The Winter Soldier was a ’70s conspiracy thriller; Guardians of the Galaxy a space opera. Enter Spider-Man: Homecoming, a frothy and witty John Hughes high school comedy that just happens to feature a superhero or two.
I’ll add that Ant-Man worked for me in similar wise because it was a heist caper. And hopefully Thor: Ragnarok will as a buddy road movie. Anyway, it’s good to hear that Spider-Man: Homecoming Will Not Suck. I want this experiment to succeed, because the MCU needs Spider-Man. Also, the Fantastic Four, but we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.
Ant Man was a much better movie than it had any real right to be.
Yup.
I saw it opening night on a whim. It’s probably the most fun recent Marvel movie.
Rotten Tomatoes is _totally_ why so many movies are doing bad opening weekend now. It’s got nothing to do with Hollywood putting out so many crap movies!
I mean, it’s true, to the extent that with RT, we can find out that a movie sucks by Saturday, so it doesn’t even get an opening-weekend rush, but the only people that hurts are Hollywood. My wallet certainly appreciates it.