We haven’t even gotten a full MCU Spiderman movie yet, so it’s still early days. However, I do have to say that I buy Tom Holland more than I ever bought Andrew Garfield or Tobey Maguire – Tobey was always a bit too soft and saccharine for me to buy that he was the irreverent snarker behind the mask, whereas Andrew’s performance was way too much of an over-reaction to the backlash against Spiderman III, and came off as way too cool.
That’s the thing about Spiderman/Peter Parker that makes him tricky: he’s a nerd and a bit nebbishy (although he kind of ages out of that a little – there had to be something there that Mary Jane Watson liked), but once he puts the mask on, he gains the confidence to express himself, even if that is as a smart-alecky motor-mouth. There’s a side of Peter Parker that has an ego, a yearning to show the world that he’s not Puny Parker any more – after all, the first thing he did when he got super-powers was to get in front of TV cameras – that makes him prank J. Jonah Jameson to get back at him, or not just fight the Kingpin but relentlessly crack fat jokes at him.
As I’ve said above, it’s really easy to grab one part of that personality and not the other. And one of the things I really like about Tom Holland’s Spiderman is that I feel like you have both: he’s awkward and stuttery around Tony Stark, but he’s also showboating quite a bit at the airport fight.
So I’ve got my fingers crossed for Homecoming.
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