Starring: Tom Holland, Zendaya, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jon Favreau, Jacob Batalon, Marisa Tomei, J. B. Smoove, Benedict Wong, Willem Dafoe, Alfred Molina, Jamie Foxx
OUR RATING: ★★★★☆
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MCU’s superhero action adventure sequel directed by Jon Watts. Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) follows Peter Parker (Tom Holland), who’s life and reputation is turned upside down following his identity being exposed at the hands of Mysterio. When he asks for help from Doctor Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) to try and fix everything, things soon become even more dangerous, forcing him to discover what it really means to be Spider-Man.
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'If you expect disappointment, then you can never really get disappointed.' - MJ (Spider-Man: No Way Home) Share on X
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J. Jonah Jameson: [after he’s revealed Peter as Spide-Man] People look up to this boy and called him a hero. Well, I tell you what I call him. Public Enemy Number One!
MJ: [after Jameson’s revealed his identity] Okay, where are we going to go?
Peter Parker: I don’t know. Your house.
MJ: Oh, no! We cannot go to my house. My dad will kill you!
Peter Parker: What? I thought you said your dad really liked me?
MJ: Yeah, well, not anymore!
Peter Parker: I didn’t kill Quentin Beck. The drones did.
Agent Cleary: The drones that are yours.
Ned Leeds: I knew way before MJ did. I was Spider-Man’s guy in the chair.
Agent Cleary: Oh, I know about those. I mean, half the guys have guys in the chair.
Ned Leeds: Exactly! You wouldn’t know, I literally helped him find the Vulture.
Agent Cleary: I didn’t know that.
Ned Leeds: And I helped him hack his suit once, and kind of helped him get to Space.
Agent Cleary: So, in Spider-Man’s illegal vigilanteism, you were his main accomplice.
Ned Leeds: I would like to have my words strictly from the record.
Matt Murdock: Peter, you may have dodged your legal troubles, but things will get much worse. There is still the court of public opinion.
Peter Parker: [as Murdock catches the brick thrown through the window] How did you just do that?
Matt Murdock: I’m a really good lawyer.
MJ: Well, what are your other favorite things?
Peter Parker: I love your relentless optimism.
MJ: Yeah. I am a glass half-full kind of gal.
Peter Parker: I really like how you’re a people person.
MJ: I love people. I love them so much.
Peter Parker: You like sports.
MJ: I think the Mets are going to go all the way this year.
Peter Parker: Really?
MJ: I have a weird question. Does any part of you feel relieved about all of this?
Peter Parker: Ever since I got bit by that Spider, I’ve only had one week where my life has felt normal. Well, kind of normal, I guess. And that was when you found out. Because then, everyone that was in my life, that I wanted to know, knew. And it was perfect. But now everybody knows. And I am the most famous person in the entire world, and I’m still broke.
Crowd Member: Who are you?
Ned Leeds: I’m Ned Leeds. I’m Spider-Man’s…
Flash Thompson: Peter Parker’s best friend. You come at my boy? You come at Flash Thompson. If you want to read about our inspiring friendship, you can now from my new book, Flashpoint. One spider, two hearts, a million crazy-a** memories. Check it out.
Mr. Dell: Peter, we would love to welcome you back To Midtown High, where we shape heroes.
Coach Wilson: Or murderers.
Mr. Dell: Stop it.
Peter Parker: Can we just like stay up here all day? It is so crazy down there.
MJ: [reading from the paper] Wait, this one’s good. Some suggest that Parker’s powers include the male spider’s ability to hypnotize females. Which he used to seduce Jones-Watson into his cult of personality.”
Peter Parker: Stop! Stop.
MJ: Yes, my Spider Lord.
Ned Leeds: So, I was thinking, when we get into MIT, we should live together.
Peter Parker: Yeah, for sure.
MJ: Yeah. I’d love that.
Ned Leeds: [referring to the photo of students] This is going to be us.
MJ: Yes. Minus the Frisbee, and the smiling.
Peter Parker: New school, new town. I can Spider-Man there. I mean they have crime in Boston, right?
MJ: Yes. Yes, they do.
Ned Leeds: Yeah, wicked crime.
Peter Parker: Yeah, so it’ll be like a fresh start.
MJ: If you expect disappointment, then you can never really get disappointed.
'With great power, there must also come great responsibility.' - May Parker (Spider-Man: No Way Home) Share on X
Peter Parker: [after their MIT applications are rejected] This is so not fair. I mean, this is so not fair. I didn’t do anything wrong. And you guys definitely didn’t do anything wrong.
MJ: Expect disappointment, and you will never get disappointed.
MJ: [as she rips her MIT letter] You know what? I wouldn’t change a thing.
Ned Leeds: [rips his MIT letter] Me neither. Although, I could have just showed this letter to my parents.
Wong: The Sorcerer Supreme has high duties, yes.
Peter Parker: Wait, I thought you were the Sorcerer Supreme?
Doctor Strange: No. He got it on a technicality because I blipped for five years.
Peter Parker: Oh. Well, congratulations.
Doctor Strange: If I’d been here, then I’d…
Wong: Burn the place down.
Doctor Strange: So, Peter, to what do I owe the pleasure?
Peter Parker: Right. I’m really sorry to bother you, sir, but…
Doctor Strange: Please. We saved half the universe together. I think we’re beyond calling me “sir”.
Peter Parker: Okay. Stephen.
Doctor Strange: That feels weird, but I’ll allow it.
Peter Parker: When Mysterio revealed my identity, my entire life got screwed up. And I was wondering, I mean, I don’t even know if this would actually work. But I was wondering if maybe you could go back in time and make it so that he never did?
Doctor Strange: Peter, we tampered with the stability of spacetime to resurrect countless lives. You want to do it again now just because yours got messy?
'When you try to fix people, there are always consequences.' - Dr. Curt Connors (Spider-Man: No Way Home) Share on X
Peter Parker: It’s not about me. I mean, this is really hurting a lot of people. My Aunt May, Happy. My best friend. My girlfriend. Their futures are ruined just because they know me, and they’ve done nothing wrong.
Doctor Strange: I am so sorry, but even if I wanted to, I don’t have the Time Stone anymore.
Peter Parker: That’s right. I’m really sorry if I wasted your time.
Doctor Strange: No, you didn’t.
Peter Parker: Just forget about it.
Wong: He will. He’s really good at forgetting things.
Doctor Strange: [referring to the runes of Cafkal] Oh, it’s just a standard spell of forgetting. Won’t turn back time, but at least people will forget that you were ever Spider-Man.
Peter Parker: Seriously?
Wong: No. Not seriously. That spell travels the dark borders between known and unknown reality. It’s too dangerous.
Doctor Strange: We’ve used it for a lot less. Do you remember the full moon party in Kamar-Taj?
Wong: No.
Doctor Strange: Exactly.
Peter Parker: So what is this place?
Doctor Strange: The Sanctum’s built at the intersection of cosmic energy currents. We were the first to seek them out. Some of these walls are thousands of years old. And they shot an episode of Equalizer here in the 80’s.
Doctor Strange: [as he’s starting to cast the spell] The entire world is about to forget that Peter Parker is Spider-Man. Including me.
Peter Parker: Everyone? Can’t some people still know?
Doctor Strange: That’s not how the spell works, and very difficult and dangerous to change it mid-casting.
'Gods don't have to choose. We take.' - Norman Osborn (Spider-Man: No Way Home) Share on X
Peter Parker: So my girlfriend is just going to forget about everything we’ve been through? I mean, is she even going to be my girlfriend?
Doctor Strange: That depends. Was she your girlfriend just because you’re Spider-Man, or…
Peter Parker: I don’t know. I really hope not.
Doctor Strange: Alright. Fine. Everyone in the world is going to forget that you’re Spider-Man, except your girlfriend.
Peter Parker: Thank you so much. Oh, my God. Ned. Ned!
Doctor Strange: What is a Ned?
Peter Parker: He’s my best friend, so it’s really important to me that Ned knows.
Doctor Strange: Okay. Let’s not change the parameters of the spell anymore while I’m casting it.
Peter Parker: Okay, I’m done. I’m done. I swear I’m done. I’m done.
Peter Parker: Yeah, but my Aunt May should really know.
Doctor Strange: Peter, stop tampering with the spell.
Peter Parker: Once she found out that I was Spider-Man, it was really messy, and I don’t think that I can go through with that again. So, my Aunt May?
Doctor Strange: Yes!
Peter Parker: Oh, thank you.
Peter Parker: Happy?
Doctor Strange: No. I am annoyed.
Peter Parker: No, it’s a nickname. Harold “Happy” Hogan.
Peter Parker: [to Strange as he’s casting the spell] Basically, everyone who knew that I was Spider-Man before, should still know!
Peter Parker: Did it work?
Doctor Strange: No. You changed my spell six times.
Peter Parker: Five times.
Doctor Strange: You changed my spell. You don’t do that! I told you, and that is why! That spell was completely out of control. If I hadn’t shut it down, something catastrophic could’ve happened.
Peter Parker: Stephen, listen, I am so sorry.
Doctor Strange: Call me sir.
Peter Parker: I’m sorry, sir.
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