The airport battle is the movie’s central showcase for a reason — the stakes are high, but Spider-Man in particular keeps things moving by trying to chat with all the veteran heroes he’s fighting, and often outclassing.

Spider-Girl later chased Screwball and confiscated her camera to prevent her from broadcasting her latest activity before handing her over to the police. He is just as endearing as he is hopeless, with all his thoughts rising to the surface (to alternatingly vulnerable and humorous effect). Screen Rant included Screwball in their "Spider-Man: 10 Best Female Villains" list, [16] and in their "10 Spider-Man Villains That Are Smarter Than They Seem" list. This is a movie mostly about teaching you that you can’t always root for the hero, because sometimes they’re just a bad person.The same applies to Dane Dehaan’s unsettling and edgy take on Harry Osborn, back from some time away. In welcome contrast to the history of superhero movies to that point, Homecoming imagines Spider-Man as an appropriately aged high schooler juggling the most dangerous after-school gig imaginable.

If Tom Holland’s Spider-Man has been defined by one thing, it’s the way he’s absolutely teeming with well-intentioned teenaged energy, and Far From Home lets that shine.

And if you’re going to include a movie that had Spider-Man but wasn’t really about him, you have to include all the movies that had Spider-Man but weren’t really about him. It is worth it to make a movie this goofy and earnest and ultimately small, about a guy who discovers the burden of responsibility he’s taken on might be more than he bargained for, and almost gives it up — but chooses not to, because there is value in being steady.