SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME Looks to Surpass AVATAR As the No. 3 Domestic Title
By Movieguide® Staff
SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME continues to set box office records two months after its initial release in theaters on Dec. 17, 2021.
The third movie in a trio of Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) standalone SPIDER-MAN movies is on pace to pass up James Cameron’s 2009 blockbuster, AVATAR, at the domestic box office.
SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME would sit at No. 3 on the most successful movies of all time in the domestic box office, behind STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS and MCU’s AVENGERS: ENDGAME.
The Hollywood Reporter reported:
No Way Home earned another $9.6 million over the weekend to finish Sunday with $749 million in ticket sales, less than a $1 million shy of the $749.8 million grossed by James Cameron’s Avatar in its original domestic run, not adjusted for inflation.
Including earnings from subsequent rereleases, Avatar ranks as the third top-grossing film of all time domestically with $760.5 million in earnings. No Way Home should ultimately land north of $760 million, but there are no guarantees.
Globally, however, No Way Home doesn’t have a shot at besting Avatar.
Movieguide®’s review of SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME reads:
SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME is a wild ride. As the movie opens, Peter and his friends, MJ and Ned, are suffering the consequences of Mysterio’s lies from the last SPIDER-MAN movie. Because of the controversy Mysterio created, none of them are accepted into any colleges, including their first choice, MIT. Always thinking about his friends, Peter asks Dr. Strange for a spell to make everyone forget Peter Parker is Spider-Man. However, the spell goes wrong and starts bringing supervillains from other universes into Peter’s world.
SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME is filled with fun surprises and twists, plus lots of action. There’s plenty of serious jeopardy leading to stirring, sad and tearful moments. The performances are perfectly melded with the story’s twists and turns, including some surprise appearances. NO WAY HOME has a strong moral, redemptive premise that everyone deserves a second chance, even supervillains. In the movie, Aunt May inspires Peter to do the right thing and give the supervillains a second chance to set things right. SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME has many light obscenities and profanities, intense action violence and occult content.
SPIDER-MAN’s success on the all-time charts once again proves Movieguide®’s thesis that movies with more redemptive triumph over movies with excessive content.
Though hyped by the media, AVATAR contained a gratuitous presentation of anti-Christian worldviews.
Movieguide® reported:
For hundreds of years, the pagan, communist ideas expressed in this movie circulated among a threadbare group of outcasts with dirty fingernails and greasy hair, who shared their obtuse, occult ideas amongst themselves with manic, alienated glee. Now James Cameron has made these insane views the major bulwark of a very spectacular movie, but the spectacle does not make the views any more coherent, rational, or uplifting.
Ultimately, AVATAR is bad news. What the people in the movie need to deliver them from their greed and the aliens in the movie need to deliver them from their severe group think is the loving salvation available only through the true God, Jesus Christ.
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