Jul 30, 2026 · 15 min · 10 segments
Spider Man is back, and this might be Tom Holland's best outing yet. After everything Peter Parker lost in No Way Home, Brand New Day takes the character in a fresh direction while delivering bigger…
It deserves it.
It does deserve it.
This one has a ton of action, a ton of heart, a ton of humor-
Humor
... and I think it balances all of those things really well.
Yes.
It's not too much.
It's not corny.
It's like just the right amount of humor, and then it's like you're about to cry, and then they'll give you a little humor, and then action.
Yeah.
What, what I've always liked about Tom Holland's Spider-Man, especially like starting from the beginning, like he felt like a really grounded person, and especially in the early ones, he felt like a kid.
Yes.
And so you felt for him more.
Mm-hmm.
And so we've kind of grown with the character and grown with him, and in this one he feels more grown up.
Remember me? Yes.
And it's, and it's four years after the events of the last one, which nobody knows who he is.
And so-
Poor thing
... yeah, he's dealing with that, and you feel that.
Yeah.
And there's obviously other things that happen in the movie that, that just give it a lot of heart, and you feel kind of the heartbreak that he has, um-
And the struggle he's going through-
Yeah
It deserves it.
It does deserve it.
This one has a ton of action, a ton of heart, a ton of humor-
Humor
... and I think it balances all of those things really well.
Yes.
It's not too much.
It's not corny.
It's like just the right amount of humor, and then it's like you're about to cry, and then they'll give you a little humor, and then action.
Yeah.
What, what I've always liked about Tom Holland's Spider-Man, especially like starting from the beginning, like he felt like a really grounded person, and especially in the early ones, he felt like a kid.
Yes.
And so you felt for him more.
Mm-hmm.
And so we've kind of grown with the character and grown with him, and in this one he feels more grown up.
Remember me? Yes.
And it's, and it's four years after the events of the last one, which nobody knows who he is.
And so-
Poor thing
... yeah, he's dealing with that, and you feel that.
Yeah.
And there's obviously other things that happen in the movie that, that just give it a lot of heart, and you feel kind of the heartbreak that he has, um-
And the struggle he's going through-
Yeah
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