12 Reasons Spider-Man: Homecoming Is The Best Spidey Movie Ever

By Jack Pooley /

3. A Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man

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Much more so than the prior Spider-Man films, Homecoming goes out of its way to show the web-slinger being the famed "friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man", helping out old ladies, foiling thieves...and literally running around a neighbourhood because there aren't any tall buildings to shoot his webs onto.

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It's an amusing dynamic change for the hero that seems to be intentionally ribbing the convenient building placement in Spidey's other cinematic forays, all while the film as a whole leans into Spidey's home-spun charm a little more than what came before (though the Raimi movies also did pretty well here).