Spider-Man: No Way Home More Fun Stuff Version

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Spider-Man: No Way Home More Fun Stuff Version is the third in Tom Holland‘s Spidey series of films, in addition to his Avengers appearances, and I saw his (last?) Spidey movie in 4DX on National Cinema Day. 4DX is apparently not for people with high blood pressure or heart conditions. Oops… 😀

Prior to this, I don’t think he’s a good Spider-Man at all. I thought Homecoming was rubbish, I flicked through the second one – Far From Home – and thought (for a marked change) Jake Gyllenhaal was just phoning it in, and I would’ve liked a third Andrew Garfield movie… so it seems, this is it?

I also figured that it’s also got Doctor Strange with Mr BenCum, so that’s a plus.

So, after the second film, I am aware that now everyone knows that Peter is Spidey, which causes problems for him because he can’t go anywhere without being seen… rather like Tom Holland might grasp. Plus, Aunt May (Marisa Tomei) and Happy Hogan (Jon Favreau, still stealing a living) have split up from the fling I knew nothing about. However, that means she’s now single, and Ms Tomei is still so exceedingly hot!

For MJ (Zendaya) and Ned (Jacob Batalon), their association with Spider-man means that despite all three wanting to get into MIT, they now can’t because of their association with Spidey. Hence, he has to figure out a way to resolve this, which also brings Doc Ock (Alfred Molina) into the picture. But how does that come about? Well, Peter needs Doctor Strange’s help to reverse the fact everyone knows who he is, but mucks it up, fracturing the space-time continuum etc, leading to Electro (Jamie Foxx), Green Goblin (Willem Dafoe), the Lizard (Rhys Ifans), the Sandman (Thomas Haden Church) and Doc Ock all coming through, as well as – eventually – the other two Spider-men in this multiverse, in Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield.

Benedict Wong, as Wong, was a case of “We’ve got to have him in the movie, but he’s off filming other things and so we don’t need to write a big part for him, so let’s just bring him in for five minutes”.

Marisa Tomei. She is nerdy. Oh, my…

At this point, I’ll also add that while I’ve seen Tobey Maguire’s first film, I’ve not yet watched his second or third film, so I’ve not seen the performances by Messrs Molina or Church before.

With multiple baddies, Spider-Man: No Way Home More Fun Stuff Version makes a decent job of finding a balance between their screen time and also trying to redeem them, in the eyes of the benevolent Peter, in Tom Holland’s guise. As for Spideys 1 and 2, they’re great, but that said, they’re only in the film for around 45-50 minutes, which didn’t feel like nearly long enough for a film that was running for around two hours and 40 minutes. It’s like the production team brought them back, but didn’t really know too much about what to do with them. That said, when all 3 have their masks on and are jumping about, I don’t want to come across all Spider-Manist, but… they all look the same!

However, I did like the moment when Andrew helps Tobey sort his back out, given that the latter is getting on in years.

Angourie Rice as Betty Brant.

As the tickets were just £3 (plus 75p booking fee), the three 4DX screenings on National Cinema Day sold out quickly, and my ticket was one of the last. However, when the day came round, I figured it might not be so easy to comfortably try and write a review by noting my A5 notepad from time to time, because it was so busy, and it would stand out a bit – especially, if you’re all in fairly close proximity.

However, when it came to the screening, in which I was in seat F5, and most rows were 16 seats long in banks of four, with a slight gap between me and whoever would sit in F4, so under normal circumstances, I still could’ve made some notes…

So, what changed? Well, not every seat turned up in the end. I guess if people are paying £3.75 a ticket and then can’t be bothered to turn up, they haven’t lost a lot, compared to around £20 for that auditorium usually. But then, pre-trailers during a demo, and during some trailers like Black Adam, we were treated to an experience of what 4DX can do… So at that point, I knew if I’d tried to take out my A5 pad and start taking notes about the film, both my pen and pad would be on the floor after being thrown about!!

As for the 4DX itself, it was quite fun, but nothing I’d want to repeat on a regular basis for considerably more than the price of the average film, although I can appreciate the work that goes into not only the hydraulics of the system as the seats are moving about a lot, but also syncing a very long film precisely with the movements of the chair along with everything else going on. When it comes to the 4DX, as well , there was occasional water mist which felt like it was coming from above – even though it was in front of us. Plus, blasts of air and a kick in the back at times.

The only thing about it that was annoying is the times when it kept flashing lights at us, such as when Electro would wreak havoc. I’m not sensitive to lights or anything like that, but I just don’t like bright light shoved in my eye, basically.

After I found my own way home, I also dug out the regular version of the film, so I could flick through and make notes on the whole thing.

MJ and Spider-Man

It would be good to see the film again, but in 3D for the multiverse scenes particularly, and I also would want to see it in the 1.90:1 IMAX ratio, for which it’s expanded to that ratio throughout. However, apparently not even Disney+ have that version (as they often do), and it’s hoarded only by Sony’s Bravia Core service, which I’d never even heard of, so clearly, not many people must be subscribed to it.

I did also look around for an IMAX version of this extended edition, but nothing doing 🙁

Now, some spoilery thoughts about the film:

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When everyone’s returned to their own universes, I wanted to see the scenes of them actually returning. And for the baddies, for example, they were transported into Tom Holland’s world at their point of death, while fighting their own Spider-Man, so how would that work on their return? I guess they didn’t want to reveal that in case they were to make a direct sequel to this film… which would also give them time to write something new. And didn’t Peter kill Green Goblin in this one? He still seems alive, yet had been stabbed in the neck! And why did he move into a different apartment at the end? Surely, he could take over the lease of the existing one? It’s difficult to work out whether he’s of that age to do so anyway. It’s mentioned that he’s only 14, but then is finishing high school, so would be 18. I thought he was meant to be 15 in the first one? Either way, he’s over 20. But if he’s of age to rent somewhere, any apartment would do? So why move?

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At the time, I didn’t know what was in the extra 10 minutes, but there was a rather elongated and superfluous chat between Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire, just before going into battle with Electro and The Sandman. It was certainly a welcome scene, but it did feel like the kind of extra that would be added in. As it turns out, there was a bit of that which was added:

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According to Wikipedia: “An extended cut of the film, subtitled The More Fun Stuff Version, was announced in June 2022. The re-release celebrates 60 years of Spider-Man in comics and 20 years of Spider-Man in film, and features approximately 13 minutes of additional and deleted scenes. The additions include: an introduction from Holland, Maguire, and Garfield; additional scenes of Parker and May being interrogated by the Department of Damage Control; the scene with Holland’s brother Harry as a thief that was cut from the original release; Daily Bugle reports of Parker’s first day back at school and the arrivals of Dillon and Marko; additional scenes of Parker at school; Brant interviewing Parker, his teachers, and his classmates; additional scenes in the basement of the New York Sanctum; a scene featuring May, Parker, and the villains in an elevator while on the way to Hogan’s apartment; an additional scene with Murdock; additional scenes of the three Parkers; and a new post-credits scene, replacing the Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness teaser trailer, which showcases the effects of Strange’s second spell.”

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Now, for details of mid- and post-credits scenes:

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There’s one mid-credits scene of Tom Hardy, as Eddie Brock/Venom, sat at a bar, drinking away, but just before he’s able to pay, the multiverse is restored, and they disappear back to where they came from, leaving a bit of symbiote behind. Checking the original film afterwards, I see there was a post-credits scene which links into Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and basically just acts like a trailer for that film, and “Doctor Strange Will Return”. Of course, that film’s already aired, so for the ‘More fun stuff’ version, instead, we had a sort-of ‘End of school’ scene from Betty Brant showing how everyone’s changed over time and/or made new friends etc, with lots of pictures of their time there. However, since all the pictures of Ned and MJ don’t feature Peter Parker any more, how come? Surely, he was only wiped from their memory from that point going forward – i.e. at the end of No Way Home? Hence, they would both have plenty of pictures of him from before that, so wouldn’t they question why they knew him, etc? If the spell was meant to go back to the beginning of time, then surely, the school would still have pictures and memories of him? As well as the trophy cabinet dedicated to him? I thought the spell just changed their memories, not anything physical? That was a stupid plot hole. According to BamSmackPow: “No Way Home’s More Fun Stuff Version removed the Multiverse of Madness trailer and replaced it with a new sequence—one that better explains how Doctor Strange’s spell for the world to forget Peter worked. The scene features Betty Brant playing a retrospective video about her and her classmates’ high school journey. The tribute includes pictures and footage taken from the events in Spider-Man: Homecoming and from their trip to London in 2019’s Far From Home. Peter Parker is actually seen in two bits throughout the video. The first is in a picture with the Spider-Man cast in Venice. The hero is right in the middle of the group, but his face is covered by a pigeon flying past him. Then, a video of Ned talking to Peter about their upcoming dance from 2017’s Homecoming plays, but the latter is shown only from the back. Following No Way Home’s original release, fans wondered how Doctor Strange’s spell would affect the MCU with physical evidence of Peter’s life, pictures, passport, official documents and videos. This was especially puzzling given all the coverage Spider-Man had received following his identity being outed. Now, the extended cut’s post-credits scene has confirmed the mind-wipe also took care of all of that evidence by not-so-subtly hiding Spider-Man’s existence. However, the manner in which Peter’s erasure from society was achieved seemingly teases the possibility of Strange’s spell being undone in future storylines.”

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There’s one mid-credits scene of Tom Hardy, as Eddie Brock/Venom, sat at a bar, drinking away, but just before he’s able to pay, the multiverse is restored, and they disappear back to where they came from, leaving a bit of symbiote behind.

Checking the original film afterwards, I see there was a post-credits scene which links into Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and basically just acts like a trailer for that film, and “Doctor Strange Will Return”.

Of course, that film’s already aired, so for the ‘More fun stuff’ version, instead, we had a sort-of ‘End of school’ scene from Betty Brant showing how everyone’s changed over time and/or made new friends etc, with lots of pictures of their time there. However, since all the pictures of Ned and MJ don’t feature Peter Parker any more, how come?

Surely, he was only wiped from their memory from that point going forward – i.e. at the end of No Way Home? Hence, they would both have plenty of pictures of him from before that, so wouldn’t they question why they knew him, etc?

If the spell was meant to go back to the beginning of time, then surely, the school would still have pictures and memories of him? As well as the trophy cabinet dedicated to him? I thought the spell just changed their memories, not anything physical? That was a stupid plot hole.

According to BamSmackPow:

“No Way Home’s More Fun Stuff Version removed the Multiverse of Madness trailer and replaced it with a new sequence—one that better explains how Doctor Strange’s spell for the world to forget Peter worked.

The scene features Betty Brant playing a retrospective video about her and her classmates’ high school journey. The tribute includes pictures and footage taken from the events in Spider-Man: Homecoming and from their trip to London in 2019’s Far From Home. Peter Parker is actually seen in two bits throughout the video. The first is in a picture with the Spider-Man cast in Venice. The hero is right in the middle of the group, but his face is covered by a pigeon flying past him. Then, a video of Ned talking to Peter about their upcoming dance from 2017’s Homecoming plays, but the latter is shown only from the back.

Following No Way Home’s original release, fans wondered how Doctor Strange’s spell would affect the MCU with physical evidence of Peter’s life, pictures, passport, official documents and videos. This was especially puzzling given all the coverage Spider-Man had received following his identity being outed.

Now, the extended cut’s post-credits scene has confirmed the mind-wipe also took care of all of that evidence by not-so-subtly hiding Spider-Man’s existence. However, the manner in which Peter’s erasure from society was achieved seemingly teases the possibility of Strange’s spell being undone in future storylines.”

Spiderman: No Way Home More Fun Stuff Version is in cinemas now, and isn’t yet available to pre-order, but you can buy the regular version on 4K Blu-ray, 3D Blu-ray, Blu-ray, and DVD.

Spider-Man: No Way Home More Fun Stuff Version – Official Trailer – Sony Pictures Entertainment

Detailed specs:

Cert:
Running time: 160 minutes
Release date: September 2nd 2022
Studio: Sony Pictures Entertainment
Format: 2.39:1 (ARRIRAW (4.5K)), 1.90:1 (IMAX version of theatrical version)
Cinema: Cineworld Didsbury
Rating: 7/10

Director: Jon Watts
Producers: Kevin Feige, Amy Pascal
Screenplay: Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers
Characters: Stan Lee, Steve Ditko
Music: Michael Giacchino

Cast:
Peter Parker / Spider-Man: Tom Holland
MJ: Zendaya
Doctor Strange: Benedict Cumberbatch
May Parker: Marisa Tomei
Ned Leeds: Jacob Batalon
Happy Hogan: Jon Favreau
Max Dillon / Electro: Jamie Foxx
Norman Osborn / Green Goblin: Willem Dafoe
Dr. Otto Octavius / Doc Ock: Alfred Molina
Wong: Benedict Wong
Flash Thompson: Tony Revolori
Peter Parker / Spider-Man: Andrew Garfield
Peter Parker / Spider-Man: Tobey Maguire
Betty Brant: Angourie Rice
Agent Cleary: Arian Moayed
MIT Assistant Vice Chancellor: Paula Newsome
Coach Wilson: Hannibal Buress
Mr. Harrington: Martin Starr
Mr. Dell: JB Smoove
J. Jonah Jameson: JK Simmons
Dr. Curt Connors / The Lizard: Rhys Ifans
Matt Murdock: Charlie Cox
Flint Marko / Sandman: Thomas Haden Church
Apprentice: Haroon Khan
Apprentice: Emily Fong
Ned’s Lola: Mary Rivera
Agent Foster: Gary Weeks

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