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SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME

"Funnier, More Exciting, More Redemptive"

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SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME Review

In SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME, Peter Parker wants to enjoy his high school’s science field trip to Europe and focus on his plans for telling MJ he likes her, but Nick Fury, the head of the Avengers, needs Spider-Man to help a mysterious new superhero stop giant water and fire creatures from another universe who are intent on destroying Earth.

Posted by Movieguide on Tuesday, July 2, 2019

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In SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME, Peter Parker returns to high school after helping the Avengers defeat Thanos. Peter wants to enjoy his school’s upcoming science field trip to Europe and plans to tell MJ he likes her. However, Nick Fury, the longtime government official in charge of the Avengers, wants Spider-Man to help a mysterious new superhero stop a giant fire creature from another universe with the ability to destroy Earth. Peter is reluctant, but Fury won’t take no for an answer. The stage is set for a showdown with the creature. However, a major twist occurs, a new villain is exposed, and Peter must face a new deadly challenge alone.

SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME is funnier and more exciting than other recent live action Spider-Man movies. It packs a stronger emotional punch. The story is well paced, and the special effects are impressive. FAR FROM HOME has a strong moral, redemptive worldview promoting truth, overcoming deception and saving lives, while thanking God. Caution is advised for older children because of foul language and a repeated crude joke in SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME.

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Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:
Very strong moral worldview with strong redemptive content includes a strong rebuke of Fake News and people who obtain power but try to use that power to deceive the public and individuals, a comment is made that people need to believe in something, a pro-family subplot showing that an orphaned boy’s aunt is supportive of the nephew she’s raising, a pro-life message where the hero clearly values human life, but the manipulative and merciless villain clearly does not, a statue of the Virgin Mary opens the movie, and several scenes where people overtly thank God for a blessing of one kind or another, plus one scene shows people accepting the humanist idea that there are multiple universes, but a later scene shows that people are gullible and stupid for believing such nonsense

Foul Language:
12 obscenities (a couple “s” words and some “d,” “h” and a** words), six light exclamatory profanities (usually OMG and usually during the heat of the action)and several crude jokes and the middle finger gestuer

Violence:
Lots of light and strong action violence includes two superheroes battle huge water and fire creatures destroying city buildings and endangering people in several scenes, villain gets control of satellite drones to attack good guys and wage destruction, Spider-Man is thrown about repeatedly as he fights creatures and drones, buildings and parts of buildings crumble, creatures and drones and villain threaten civilians, Spider-Man accidentally knocks his head against a giant bell two or three times during one fight scene, Spider-Man uses his super-strong sticky web threads to stop a tall bell tower from falling onto people in the street, a man stitches a wound on Peter’s back while Peter winces in pain (there are no visuals of the actual stitching), drones blow up a small empty jet, a tour bus almost tumults off a narrow mountain road when it’s attacked, people mourn the deaths of several superheroes that happened in a previous movie, etc.

Sex:
No sex scenes implied or depicted, but a double entendre intended to be funny is repeated throughout the movie when people decide to call Spider-Man’s “spidey sense” of impending danger a “Peter Tingle,” and a rival student sees Peter Parker starting to put a new Spider-Man suit under his clothes (Peter has just taken off his pants and is in his boxer shorts) with a female government agent and gets the wrong impression

Nudity:
No sexual or explicit nudity, but two scenes with brief, naturalistic upper male nudity

Alcohol Use:
Teenager tries to pretend to be 21 to get alcohol on a plane but his deception is exposed by another student

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:
No smoking or drugs; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:
Villain uses deception to fool the good guys, two teenagers (male and female) kiss and another teenage couple become boyfriend/girlfriend for a time, and teenage hero lies to hide his secret identity as Spider-Man.

More Detail:

In SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME, Peter Parker wants to enjoy his high school’s science field trip to Europe and focus on his plans for telling MJ he likes her, but Nick Fury, the head of the Avengers, needs Spider-Man to help a mysterious new superhero stop giant water and fire creatures from another universe who are intent on destroying Earth. SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME is funny, exciting and well-paced, with a strong moral, redemptive worldview promoting truth, overcoming deception and saving lives, while thanking God. Caution is advised for older pre-adolescents because of some foul language and a crude joke that’s repeated.

As the movie opens, the world is still reeling from the return of all the people in AVENGERS: ENDGAME, whom Thanos snapped out of existence five years ago in AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR. Peter, his friend Ned, and the girl Peter likes, MJ, are back in high school after being gone for five years. Meanwhile, other students who didn’t disappear are five years older.

Peter is excited about going on the science field trip to Europe. After fighting Thanos, he’s ready for a vacation. Also, he finally wants to tell MJ how he really feels. Most of all, he wants to do it on top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, where he can also give MJ a special piece of jewelry he plans to pick out for her. While he plans for the trip, Peter decides to ignore urgent phone calls from Nick Fury, the longtime government official in charge of the Avengers. Peter also decides not to pack his Spider-Man suit, but, when he gets to Venice, the first stop on the field trip, he finds that Aunt May has packed it for him anyway.

Of course, Peter’s plans for a peaceful, romantic vacation doesn’t work out. Some sort of giant water creature with a human shape starts attacking the city. A powerful superhero with a helmet hiding his face fights the creature, while Peter puts on a carnival mask and makes sure innocent bystanders don’t get hurt by falling buildings and debris. The mysterious superhero manages to kill the creature.

Peter meets with Nick Fury, Fury’s team of government agents and the new superhero, who’s called Mysterio by Peter and his friends. Mysterio, whose real name is Quentin Beck, says he’s from an alternate Earth, which has been destroyed by four giant “elemental” creatures representing the four elements, earth, air, water, and fire. In addition to killing the water creature, Beck has already killed an earth creature. However, the most powerful elemental creature, Fire, is on its way to Prague. Beck says if Fire gets access to the planet’s mantel, Peter’s Earth will be destroyed for sure.

Surprisingly, Peter refuses Nick Fury’s request to come to Prague and help Beck defeat Fire, even when Fury says the other Avengers are away on other business. Fury tries to shame Peter into helping, but Peter is adamant. He says he doesn’t feel up to the task and just wants to remain a friendly neighborhood spider-man, with an emphasis on neighborhood. Besides, Peter argues, surely Fury and Beck can handle things.

The next day, however, Peter discovers that Fury has secretly “upgraded” the high school science tour, adding a visit to Prague. Peter reminds Fury that, if he appears in Prague wearing his regular Spider-Man suit, his classmates are going to suspect, with good reason, that he’s Spider-Man. So, Fury gives Peter a black stealth suit.

The stage is set for a showdown with the Fire creature in Prague. However, a major twist soon occurs, a new villain is exposed, and Peter and his friends will face a new challenge more deadly than ever.

SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME is funnier and more exciting than the first rebooted SPIDER-MAN movie released in 2017. It also packs a more powerful emotional punch. The story is very well paced, and the special effects are impressive.

FAR FROM HOME has a strong moral, redemptive worldview with several positive elements.

The movie’s main lesson includes a strong rebuke of Fake News. This rebuke also contains a rebuke of selfish people who, when they gain some power, use that power to deceive the public so they can get even more power. For example, the villain is a selfish, power-seeking character who plans to use some fancy technology to fool the public. Creating Fake News during an attack is the primary way the villain tries to accomplish that goal. He also tries to use deception to fool Peter Parker. What’s really great about this lesson is that it’s apolitical and can be applied to almost any ideology, any issue or any political agenda. Thus, for example, both leftists and conservatives can nod in agreement with this message in FAR FROM HOME. Each of us has a responsibility to avoid and rebuke Fake News (and other kinds of mass deception), in favor of Truth.

FAR FROM HOME also contains a pro-life message where the hero, Peter Parker aka Spider-Man, clearly values human life, but the villain clearly does not. Peter is always trying to save lives, but the villain could care less. In fact, the villain thinks that killing a few people will make his deception to gain adulation and power even more successful.

Finally, though the movie shows characters using some light profanities such as “Oh my God,” several characters, including the hero, overtly thank God several times when something good happens. It was really good to hear this line more than just once in SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME.

On the negative side, SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME contains some relatively light obscenities, plus a couple “s” words. Also, a gratuitous double entendre intended to be funny is repeated throughout the movie when a couple people decide to call Spider-Man’s “spidey sense” of impending danger a “Peter Tingle” and someone calls Peter another disgusting name.

Also, in one scene, the good guys seem to accept the humanist idea that there are multiple universes in the physical or “natural” world. Atheists have tried (and repeatedly failed) to use this idea to refute the theistic idea that a personal God created our physical universe, including human life on Earth. Interestingly, however, the movie clearly shows in a later scene that people are gullible and even stupid for believing such nonsense as the multiple universe theory. In actual fact, of course, scientists have found no actual scientific evidence to support the multiple universe, or multiverse, theory. Also, the whole theory of the multiverse begs the question, Who created the multiverse? In fact, even if there is a multiverse, the multiverse itself had a beginning and ultimately was created out of nothing, ex nihilo. Thus, says Christian philosopher William Lane Craig, “Whether or not a multiverse exists, one needs a transcendent, personal creator and designer of the cosmos” or God (William Lane Craig, “Has the Multiverse Replaced God?,” https://www.reasonablefaith.org/writings/popular-writings/existence-nature-of-god/has-the-multiverse-replaced-god/).

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Now more than ever we’re bombarded by darkness in media, movies, and TV. Movieguide® has fought back for almost 40 years, working within Hollywood to propel uplifting and positive content. We’re proud to say we’ve collaborated with some of the top industry players to influence and redeem entertainment for Jesus. Still, the most influential person in Hollywood is you. The viewer.

What you listen to, watch, and read has power. Movieguide® wants to give you the resources to empower the good and the beautiful. But we can’t do it alone. We need your support.

You can make a difference with as little as $7. It takes only a moment. If you can, consider supporting our ministry with a monthly gift. Thank you.

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