Brow Beat

School Sucks, and the World Needs Saving in the First Trailer for Spider-Man: Homecoming

If every generation gets the Spider-Man it deserves, this one must be doing something right. The first trailers for next year’s Spider-Man: Homecoming make the movie look like a major improvement over the Amazing Spider-Man series. Even better, several shots of Tom Holland’s Peter Parker fighting crime—specifically Michael Keaton’s Vulture—in his iconic suit without the mask feel like deliberate homages to Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 2, which remains the greatest comic-book movie of all time. (The comments are open for you to disagree.)

Holland’s Peter is a high-school student again, albeit one who’s finding it hard to settle into life as a normal teen now that he’s fought alongside the Avengers, who show up, sort of, in the trailer’s opening shots, in the form of cheap masks worn by a group of bank robbers whose operation Spidey then proceeds to foil. We get a few glimpses of Peter’s new love interest, played by Zendaya, and his new best pal, played by Jacob Batalon, as well as a tart interaction with Robert Downey Jr’.s Tony Stark, who continues to play the role of a gruff surrogate uncle, even if he’s not hitting on Aunt May. “I know school sucks,” he tells Peter. “I know you want to save the world.”

World-saving may, for once, not be on the agenda, but between dodging helicopters from the top of the Washington Monument and fighting Michael Keaton’s Vulture, who threatens to kill Peter’s family and everyone he loves, it looks like the poor boy will have his webbed hands full.

Spider-Man: Homecoming is scheduled to open on July 17, 2017.

Here’s the new international trailer, which includes a few different shots and swaps MGMT for a ripoff of “Black Skinhead.”