Spoiler Alert: The following review contains spoilers.What do you call the opposite of a reboot? The “system overload” of Spider-Man movies, Sony’s ninth (and almost certainly not last) feature-length riff on the friendly neighborhood superhero, “Spider-Man: No Way Home” seeks to connect Tom Holland’s spin on the web-slinger with the previous live-action versions of the character by first reassembling a rogue’s gallery of all the villains Peter Parker has vanquished to date.
Returning director Jon Watts — whose bright, slightly dorky touch lends a welcome continuity to this latest trilogy — wrangles the unwieldy premise into a consistently entertaining superhero entry, tying up two decades’ of loose ends in the process.The mind-bending plot hinges on a convenient comic-book device called the “multiverse,” which allows infinite iterations of Spider-Man/Mineral/Vegetable to exist in their own parallel dimensions.
That’s a radically different strategy from the one Sony has been peddling till now,
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