10 Genuine Concerns About Spider-Man: No Way Home

There's perhaps nothing more reliably profitable in entertainment than nostalgia.

People have always found comfort in the familiar, but in recent years there's been a major uptick in Hollywood using the past as a crutch, and the state of the world being what it is today, rehashing prior successes can resonate especially well with audiences.

Just look at Ghostbusters: Afterlife, which despite mixed reviews was warmly embraced by general audiences for its treacly comfort food appeal, even if for many it's also symptomatic of an infantlised culture averse to genuinely fresh ideas or characters.

And similarly, as inspired as No Way Home's multiversal conceit actually is, that doesn't mean it won't be a shamelessly pandering nostalgia-fest.

While the MCU has generally handled its nostalgic elements fairly well to date, if there's any movie with the potential to lose perspective and just lazily vomit memberberries all over fans - many of whom will love it regardless - it's this one.

To be more than a hollow, cynical exercise in regurgitating the Raimi and Webb movies, No Way Home needs to avoid ham-fisted references to them while providing an emotionally compelling reason for Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield's involvement. Fingers crossed.