Speaker 1: Peter Parker is back, and this time he's lonelier than ever.
Speaker 1: He saved the world once again, but at great cost.
Speaker 1: Everyone on the planet has forgotten who Peter Parker was
Speaker 1: and is. Will he make some friends? We find out
Speaker 1: in Spider Man Brand New Day. I'm Ronald Young Junior,
Speaker 1: and I'm leaving the theater.
Speaker 2: All right, This is Ronald, and I am leaving the
Speaker 2: theater after seeing Spider Man Brand New Day. Spider Man
Speaker 2: Brand New Day written by Chris McKenna and Eric Summers,
Speaker 2: directed by Destin Daniel Cretin, starring Tom Holland, Zendeia, Sadie Sink,
Speaker 2: Jacob Bartalone, John Bernthol, Florence Pugh, Tremmel, Tillman, Michael Mando,
Speaker 2: and Mark Ruffalo per usual. For complete listing of the
Speaker 2: cast and crew, please go to the link in our
Speaker 2: show notes It is just Me Today. Spider Man Brand
Speaker 2: New Day is the fourth entry in and the Tom
Speaker 2: Holland Spider Man series. The Tom Holland Spider Man series
Speaker 2: is also the marker of when Spider Man truly became
Speaker 2: a part of the Marvel Cinematic universe, and these movies
Speaker 2: were taken over by Marvel Studios even though the property
Speaker 2: is still owned by Sony, so the IP belongs to Sony.
Speaker 2: Marvel Studios is making the film. They are now part
Speaker 2: of Kevin Figee and the rest of the MCU. The
Speaker 2: reason why this is important is because now it means
Speaker 2: that these movies are incorporated into the larger storylines of
Speaker 2: the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which isn't super important for a
Speaker 2: casual Spider Man watcher, meaning that you're someone who just
Speaker 2: goes and sees. If there's a new Spider Man movie,
Speaker 2: I'm going to see it. You saw Spider Man, you
Speaker 2: saw Spider Man two, you saw Spider Man three, you
Speaker 2: saw the Amazing Spider Man.
Speaker 3: You saw the Amazing Spider Man two.
Speaker 2: Then you saw Spider Man Homecoming, and then Spider Man
Speaker 2: No Far from Home, and then sider Man No Way Home,
Speaker 2: and then Spider Man Man.
Speaker 3: You just it doesn't matter. As long as Spider Man's
Speaker 3: in there, You're going to see it.
Speaker 2: It probably doesn't make that much of a difference for you,
Speaker 2: to be honest, because everything that has happened in the
Speaker 2: Spider Man universe is only mildly impacted in the main
Speaker 2: plots of these films. For instance, in this film. There's
Speaker 2: the Department of Damage Control, which is something Oh my god,
Speaker 2: actually no, because if you've seen Spider Man one, the
Speaker 2: Department of Damage Control is there. So essentially everything that
Speaker 2: has happened since the first Avengers and then when Captain
Speaker 2: America fought Iron Man, all of that, parts, elements of
Speaker 2: that is incorporated into this movie. However, again, if you've
Speaker 2: never seen any other MCU film and you're like Ronald,
Speaker 2: I just want Spider Man, this is still a good
Speaker 2: movie for you. There is one major spoiler in this film,
Speaker 2: and I'm not gonna say it, okay, And it involves
Speaker 2: who Sadie Sink's character is, and I'll leave it at that.
Speaker 3: That's been the big thing.
Speaker 2: If you look up anything that tells you who she is,
Speaker 2: then I think it might, especially if you are an
Speaker 2: MCU fan, it might harm your viewing experience. There is
Speaker 2: a genuine moment of surprise that I had because I
Speaker 2: had no idea who this person was, and when they reveal,
Speaker 2: I felt genuinely surprised. So avoid those spoilers, and I'm
Speaker 2: not going to add them here either. And I think
Speaker 2: it's still easy to review this movie without talking about
Speaker 2: without talking about her character because there's so much other
Speaker 2: parts of this, like the fact that in Spider Man
Speaker 2: No Way Home, one of the biggest parts of it
Speaker 2: is at the very end of the movie, the world
Speaker 2: has forgotten who Peter Parker is. He basically does not
Speaker 2: exist in this timeline. He does exist, but they don't
Speaker 2: know who he is. He has wiped He's essentially wiped
Speaker 2: from their memories, which means that for his best friend
Speaker 2: Ned played by Jacob Bartalone and his girlfriend MJ played
Speaker 2: by Zendia, they have no idea who he is, and
Speaker 2: he has decided that it is in his best interest.
Speaker 2: Spider Man, Peter Parker has decided that it is in
Speaker 2: his best interest not to ever tell them who he
Speaker 2: is because of what put them in danger, which this
Speaker 2: movie opens with him being very, very isolated. It's the
Speaker 2: male loneliness epidemic. That's what we're dealing with here. He's
Speaker 2: by himself. He's trying to be a superhero by himself,
Speaker 2: and he's doing a very good job. It shows him
Speaker 2: taking down a litany of superheroes throughout, I mean of
Speaker 2: super villains throughout the beginning of the film in kind
Speaker 2: of a montage fashion fashion which was actually kind of
Speaker 2: entertaining because it felt like we got the Spider Man
Speaker 2: show that would have.
Speaker 3: Existed if these movies didn't exist.
Speaker 2: So as it came on very entertaining, as it went on,
Speaker 2: stayed entertaining. It takes. It really deals with Peter Parker
Speaker 2: slash Spider Man. It deals with him growing up. I
Speaker 2: decided to start watching the Tom Holland Spider Man's from
Speaker 2: the very beginning, turned on the first one, and I'm
Speaker 2: just reminded that one of the advantages of this film
Speaker 2: and the Newest Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Mutant Mayhem, is
Speaker 2: that we're reminded that these are children. When the first
Speaker 2: movie starts, I think Peter is about fifteen or sixteen
Speaker 2: supposed to be. By the time we get to this,
Speaker 2: he's probably about twenty two, twenty three, and I think
Speaker 2: Tom Holland is a little older than that. I think
Speaker 2: he's like twenty six or twenty seven. So when you
Speaker 2: see Tom Holland in this, you see that his friends
Speaker 2: are going to college and they have not remembered him.
Speaker 2: But everyone's getting a little bit older, and it's older
Speaker 2: in a way, like we spend so much time in
Speaker 2: the first movie being like, you're just a kid. You
Speaker 2: can't do all this stuff by yourself. And now he's
Speaker 2: kind of growing into the loneliness of adulthood, which is
Speaker 2: the idea of us going off by ourselves and accomplishing
Speaker 2: all of these tasks that we're supposed to do, trying
Speaker 2: to do the best job we possibly can, and ultimately
Speaker 2: all feeling a little bit lonely, everyone feeling like, oh man,
Speaker 2: I gotta do this on my own.
Speaker 3: I got to keep doing these chores.
Speaker 2: And then the time that we do feel together is
Speaker 2: when we're scrolling on our phones looking at our feeds
Speaker 2: and feeling relatable because other people are talking about experiences
Speaker 2: that they're having that are very similar to our own.
Speaker 2: So this is it's a film that really leans into
Speaker 2: inside the head. And I think there's a preview that's
Speaker 2: going around that shows Spider Man jumping off a roof
Speaker 2: and then you zoom inside of his mask and you
Speaker 2: kind of get a view of his eye inside of
Speaker 2: the mask, and everyone's always like.
Speaker 3: There wasn't enough room.
Speaker 2: But I think it was a very funny internet discourse
Speaker 2: about this. But what struck me is that there is
Speaker 2: a sense of loneliness when even when you're working in
Speaker 2: your purpose. That's something that really resonated with me. I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm sitting in a car alone, reviewing this movie alone.
Speaker 2: I'll go edit it alone, I'll post it, and I'll
Speaker 2: get like one or two people that are like.
Speaker 3: Y know, we listen to your spider, so I know
Speaker 3: somebody's listening.
Speaker 2: But it's really a very much a solo act, and
Speaker 2: that just really resonated with me. I'm not a superhero
Speaker 2: by any means, but I am an adult and I
Speaker 2: do have a job and doing the job. The benefits
Speaker 2: of the job sometimes, even though they can be cool,
Speaker 2: sometimes I don't always get to share them with people.
Speaker 3: And so that really felt resonant.
Speaker 2: They really nailed that home, this idea that he's by himself,
Speaker 2: he's working on his suit, he's trying to get better
Speaker 2: all the time, and he's doing this all by himself.
Speaker 2: It's just it's very increasingly isolating, and so in the
Speaker 2: film it kind of goes it goes through the fact,
Speaker 2: it kind of takes us on a journey of him
Speaker 2: not necessarily developed, not necessarily developing a crew, but being
Speaker 2: reminded that he doesn't have to do this by himself
Speaker 2: and I think that's a very good message for a
Speaker 2: film like this. Now we'll say the weak point of
Speaker 2: that is that there is some in the head stuff,
Speaker 2: like psychic inside the mind stuff going on here, and
Speaker 2: a lot of the climax of the movie is the
Speaker 2: same resolution. I felt like that existed with Thunderbolts, and
Speaker 2: what I don't mind that that happened. What I do
Speaker 2: mind is that there was no acknowledgment that that was
Speaker 2: that's what was happening. And Thunderbolts was probably the last
Speaker 2: good MCU movie before this one. I couldn't tell you
Speaker 2: what the last I don't even know what the others were. Honestly,
Speaker 2: all I know is is Thunderbolts is a good movie.
Speaker 2: It's not I don't think it's a great movie, but
Speaker 2: it is a good movie, and it's in terms of
Speaker 2: MCU it's probably still on the lower fifty percent, but
Speaker 2: it is still better than a lot of the stuff
Speaker 2: that's come out in Phase six. So for me to
Speaker 2: use something like we have to solve this inside of
Speaker 2: our brains, to use that same kind of trope in
Speaker 2: this Spider Man, for me felt like, uh, are we.
Speaker 3: Doing this again? Is are we going to do a
Speaker 3: lot of this in Phase six? Is this are we doing?
Speaker 3: Is there more of this coming?
Speaker 2: This movie is meant to It's the last movie we'll
Speaker 2: see before the Avengers, which I think is kind of
Speaker 2: a mistake now that I've seen the whole thing, because
Speaker 2: I don't know that this pointed us any closer to
Speaker 2: the next film. And I think what most people need
Speaker 2: to remember, especially if you're an MCU fan, is that
Speaker 2: in Phase one, Phase two, and Phase three, they did
Speaker 2: a very very good job of connecting the films of saying,
Speaker 2: we have to do a lot of this chunk of
Speaker 2: thing before we move to the next thing. In this movie,
Speaker 2: they do that, but they don't do it for Avengers.
Speaker 2: And I can't tell you what they do it for
Speaker 2: because that would be a spoiler. But I will say
Speaker 2: that if you are an MCU fan at large, not
Speaker 2: necessarily Avengers. I'm already saying too much. But those of
Speaker 2: you that know what I'm talking about know exactly what
Speaker 2: i'm talking.
Speaker 3: Compell with I say this. You could probably hear the
Speaker 3: excitement in my voice. It is like, this is not
Speaker 3: a drill. Just say that and it's wow.
Speaker 2: So they do some setup and I can see that
Speaker 2: they're hopefully getting back to a place where they're saying,
Speaker 2: we got to put the pieces together, because everything that
Speaker 2: we do is meant to be built.
Speaker 3: Into something big, but also stands alone on its own.
Speaker 2: And the good thing about Spider Man is Spider Man
Speaker 2: is ip and a character and a superhero that can
Speaker 2: do all of those things. They do a lot in
Speaker 2: this movie talking about how New York has embraced Spider Man.
Speaker 2: They show him working with the cops. If the police
Speaker 2: forever don't like that at all. However, in this case,
Speaker 2: in this world, the cops are the idealistic version of
Speaker 2: the cops that actually do stuff to stop crime, not
Speaker 2: just to protect the interests of rich people in rich
Speaker 2: people's property. Therefore, him working with air quote the cops,
Speaker 2: is not working with the cops in a sense that
Speaker 2: we would know them, although he does make make a
Speaker 2: mistake in trusting the government and authority that ends up
Speaker 2: being costly to him in this film, which to me
Speaker 2: is a meta commentary on our own relationships with oppressors,
Speaker 2: with power, and with government. However, I don't think that
Speaker 2: this film knows that that's exactly what's happening here. Maybe
Speaker 2: it's tested Daniel Creton. This is a person that is sharp.
Speaker 2: He did Short Term twelve. I want to say, but
Speaker 2: this is a person that really knows he's hip. So
Speaker 2: I'd hope to I'd hope that something like that was intentional.
Speaker 2: Do like the whole New York embracing Spider Man. It
Speaker 2: felt very New York. There's just a few seeds where
Speaker 2: people are like, we love Spider Man, which I just
Speaker 2: I love that. I did miss j Jonah Jamison hating
Speaker 2: Spider Man. I wish that that was still there. But
Speaker 2: it's fine that it's not. There's no photography, there's no
Speaker 2: Daily Bugle or Daily Plant whatever is it Daily Bugle,
Speaker 2: whatever the newspaper is that a Spider Man traditionally works for,
Speaker 2: it takes pictures for. That's not in this film. And
Speaker 2: I was fine with that. There's a lot of this
Speaker 2: that I just I felt like, I just enjoyed. I
Speaker 2: sat down, I watched a movie. I enjoyed it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I just I liked it. It was a good Spider
Speaker 2: Man movie. It was a good MCU movie. It was
Speaker 2: a good movie. It was not a great MCU movie,
Speaker 2: but it was a very good MCU movie. With all
Speaker 2: of that being said, I believe this is a solid
Speaker 2: four out of five star movie. I was sitting in
Speaker 2: the theater and I was thinking, the last three movies
Speaker 2: I've seen, including this one, I've given four stars too.
Speaker 2: I've seen The Invite, I've seen The Odyssey, all four stars,
Speaker 2: all movies I would watch again.
Speaker 3: I've seen The Odyssey twice.
Speaker 2: I watched The Invite absolutely again, And so I was
Speaker 2: sitting there and I was like, is this a cut
Speaker 2: above the others? Let me think about it for a second.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give it. I'm gonna give it four point
Speaker 2: one to zero stars. I'm gonna give it four point
Speaker 2: one oh stars. I liked it a little bit better
Speaker 2: than I liked those other two, but it's still in
Speaker 2: the four star family. And I'm only thinking that in
Speaker 2: terms of my four point twenty five star is the drama,
Speaker 2: and I just still don't think anything's rising up to
Speaker 2: the drama right now. And there's another film that I
Speaker 2: gave four point twenty five to two. I think it's
Speaker 2: The Sheep Detectives, maybe another solid entry into the Who
Speaker 2: Done It?
Speaker 3: Series?
Speaker 2: So yeah, I think I'd give this four point one
Speaker 2: zero stars.
Speaker 3: It's a solid four star movie.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's like but I think it's just a
Speaker 2: little bit better than those last two that I said
Speaker 2: worth watching. I'm interested in seeing where it goes from here.
Speaker 2: You do not need to stay for the end credit scene.
Speaker 2: It was a giant waste of time. It gave us, yes,
Speaker 2: give us nothing. It was ugh yuck anyway, and with
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Speaker 3: I'm Ronald Young Junior, and.
Speaker 2: I'm not a superhero by any means. But I am
Speaker 2: an adult and I do have a job.