20 Great Movie Remakes With One Miscast Role

Spider-Man: Homecoming is the perfect live-action Spider-Man movie, and it only took three iterations to get it right. We skip over the origin story, jump straight in with the character and get a whole lot of Wall-crawler action for our money, in a story that manages to root Peter Parker in his friendly neighbourhood in Queens, while connecting to bigger things (including the wider MCU) and feeling far more significant in the process.

It’s got Tom Holland delivering authenticity in both the Peter Parker and Spider-Man parts, and looking like he actually belongs in high school (take notes, Tobey Maguire), Zendaya giving the perfect balance of weird and cool kid energy as a new iteration of MJ, and a classic, snarling baddie in Michael Keaton’s Vulture. And, oh yeah, Aunt May is the hottest character in the film.

We get it - filmmakers want to shake up the established order every now and then, changing characters to suit their own ends - but there should have been a law against casting Marisa Tomei as May Parker. She’s a fine actor - that much is never in question - but she doesn’t possess any of the traits we associate with the May character. This means that, while it’s fun for Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) to moon over her, May winds up being just another undefined character in the narrative, filling the parental role for Peter but lacking the traditional dynamics between them.