Mary Jane said it, I mean Kirsten Dunst, from the first trilogy, when asked her opinion on the new Spiderman movie, and she just said "We did better."
And she was right.
Of course everyone with their own, gets well and tries to demonstrate and argue that their interpretation was better, far from detracting from the work that has been done in the last Spiderman films, I think Kirsten Dunst was right in her conclusions, and I can not less than recognizing the value of the first trilogy, even taking into account its ups and downs, which it obviously has.
Really after the work of Andrew Garfield and the rest of the films, we already thought that this character would become the new James Bond, played by several actors, that if Sean Connery's James Bond, that if Roger Moore's, that if George Lazenby's, Daniel Craig's, Timothy Dalton's ... now we have Tom Holland, in addition to the first, at least in film rather than series, as was the good old Tobey Maguire, already I imagine in 30 years a franchise exploited by 5 or 6 actors who play this character arguing that if I was better Spiderman than you.
Despite playing the same character, each actor knows how to give it their touch every time they are allowed, and obviously none of them have anything to do with the interpretation we saw in that trilogy, although in their favor is the fact that it is more similar to the original story. In the original trilogy Peter Parker did NOT want to be a superhero, the famous and lapidary phrase "With great power comes great responsibility" is undoubtedly the phrase that defines the behavior of that Spiderman and that would even lead him to want to stop being Spiderman.
Tom Holland's Spiderman does want to be a Superhero, it is his goal, he follows him and looks for him during the course of the films, now with Stark as a guide and phrases like "If you say that without the suit you are nothing, then it is that you're not ", and it's funny, because now it's Tony Stark who creates Spiderman instead of Uncle Ben.
The secondary characters of the last films, or at least not so secondary, like Aunt May, who for some reason looks about 40 years old. She is played by Marisa Tomei, and instead of looking like her aunt, she looks like her older sister or her mother.
Peter's classmates and friends are something to laugh about, and it is more than anything because of this multicultural inclusion, and it is no longer due to the fact of completely changing existing characters as far as appearance is concerned, but that they already change down to their personalities and what they offer. Peter's best friend is an Asian Star Wars geek, the girl he likes, Liz ... where did she come from ?, an African American girl, Peter Parker's crush ... the other girl ... who supposedly Mary Jane should be more protagonist, as revealed at the end, another African-American girl, very far from the MJ we all knew and not because she was white, but MJ's character was originally outgoing, carefree, funky, the queen of every party ... and now a highly analytical girl, with a great critical sense of history and fights for civil rights, I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but I don't think that's the character . Flash Thompson, a Hindu, not a high school sports star, but a jerk who does not like Peter Parker at all, but not by far the Flash Thompson that we all remembered, although it is another style, it is still nonsense having consider how the characters are.
The problem of rewriting the stories is the clash between what we knew and what they present to you, I know that the politically correct thing to do now would be to put everything in a multicultural plan, until we present a rather forced final product
Even with everything, I think the new movies keep a good rhythm, I don't think it has something like the second film of the original trilogy or the first by Andrew Garfield did, but it is something very acceptable. And something that the latter maintains very well is the sense of humor so characteristic of Spiderman, although honestly it was the easiest to maintain.
However, I don't think this Tom Holland Spiderman will become, however widely recognized, the definitive Spiderman. The Spiderman we knew was someone who was able to put more the personal facet of his personal relationships with those around him than the Stark scholarship.
In terms of criticism, Spiderman has always kept people interested, and with Tom Holland it was no wonder. I think that taking out of the equation many aspects of the last films that do not seem good to me, I think that the performance ignoring the script was good. He knew how to give his touch and affect him more than anything how the secondary characters and the motivations of Spiderman were brought, but even so I still believe that Tobey Maguire will continue to be remembered for a long time.