After having its release date postponed, Sony dropped the first trailer for Spider-Man: Far From Home this morning. To be honest, I could have lived without this until after the release of Avengers: Endgame, but I’m not complaining. Let’s take a look at what we see in this trailer.
-Spider-Man is being celebrated for his work in his community, sort of like in Spider-Man 3. Hopefully this movie isn’t as much of a clunker as that one.
-We see Aunt May celebrating with Peter after this, which is an interesting turn. In Spider-Man: Homecoming, May freaks out when finds out that Peter is Spider-Man, so this must mean she has come around to the idea of her nephew putting himself in danger as the neighborhood hero.
-We also see a moment of flirtation between Happy Hogan and Aunt May. Good for Aunt May for moving on from Uncle Ben (although we never really heard what happened to Uncle Ben in this iteration of Spider-Man), and good for Happy for completely outkicking his coverage.
-Peter is shown packing for a class trip to Europe, and he decides not to pack his Spider-Man suit. Even superheroes need vacations sometimes.
-Even more flirtation! Peter tells MJ (Zendaya) that she looks pretty, she messes with him a little bit, and he fumbles over his words a bunch. Pretty standard stuff from this iteration of Peter Parker.
-Nick Fury knocks Peter’s friend Ned out with a sleeping dart, and takes Peter with him, giving him a new suit. In this trailer, we see the Elementals (Sandman, Molten Man and Hydra Man) as the main villains.
-Jake Gyllenhaal makes his first appearance as Mysterio, who also fights the Elementals:
I personally think Mysterio will help Spider-Man beat the Elementals, then turn on him. Classic villain stuff.
-The trailer ends with Peter’s foil Flash talking about how much he likes and respects Spider-Man, then calling Peter a “dickwad.” Despite being a second-string academic decathlon participant and aspiring DJ, people seem to think Flash is a cool guy.
-The score for this trailer is awesome.
-A lot of people are pointing out that there’s no Tony Stark in this trailer. Since Far From Home is set after the events of Avengers: Endgame, a lot of people are assuming that means Tony dies in Endgame. This could be true, or Marvel could be trying to move away from the Tony/Peter dynamic, which was a big complaint from many fans after Homecoming. I guess we’ll find out for sure when the movie is released in July.
That’s all for this one folks! Less than two months until Captain Marvel, and three and a half until Endgame. Infinity War was added to Netflix on Christmas, so you have that to hold you over until then.
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