In the past, the members of the Motion Picture Academy have considered superhero movies to be entertainment, not art, and the Oscars are supposed to be about art. That said, the whole reason I’m going on about this is precisely to say: Who cares what I think? Audiences adore “Spider-Man: No Way Home.” Critics, with a very few exceptions, adore “Spider-Man: No Way Home.” The whole world adores “Spider-Man: No Way Home.” So if you really think I’m wrong (and just about everyone does), what on earth is stopping everyone from demanding that “Spider-Man: No Way Home” becomes one of this year’s Oscar nominees for best picture? On what planet would anyone argue that it shouldn’t be?Īh yes, the ancient logic of middlebrow Oscar snobbery. It turns the audience into part of the selling. Sure, the three performers are having a party (and Andrew Garfield is a more ebullient actor now than he was when he glummed his way through his original two “Spider-Man” films), but the picture is “meta” in the way that a clever advertisement is meta.
“No Way Home” is basically a sideshow attraction (“Step right up! See all the Spider-Men in one movie!”) staged as a bloated “Saturday Night Live” sketch. (I can hear some of you going, “Awesome!”) But as a marketing hook it’s off the hook. It’s as if the new “Batman” film had found a way for Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, Christian Bale, and Ben Affleck to all show up as Bruce Wayne. That said, the only reason “No Way Home” even bothered with the multiverse concept is that it’s the only way the filmmakers could figure out to shoehorn all three of the actors who’ve played Spider-Man - Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield, and Tom Holland - into one movie.Īs a storytelling premise, this one makes close to no sense.
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That movie was no small influence on this one, but it’s like seeing filet mignon turned into processed, additive-filled hamburger. “No Way Home” has none of the head-spinning flair and three-dimensional-chess logic that was so hypnotic in “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” the bedazzling 2018 animated landmark that is one of the all-time highlights of the superhero genre. The way the multiverse concept plays out is, in my opinion, a half-baked and unsatisfying mess. But understand that I’m actually on your side. So even though my antipathy isn’t the topic of this column, why hide it? Go ahead, throw tomatoes at me. Even after I’d written my first draft, I asked myself if the Spanish that I’m using would translate and be at home in Colombia and Puerto Rico.Yes, I hated “ Spider-Man: No Way Home.” It’s a movie that I’m a total annoying curmudgeonly naysayer about. In an interview with Variety in December, Miranda said: “Inspired by the butterfly metaphor, I wrote the song about these two caterpillars who are in love and don’t want to let each other go, but of course, they have to let each other go, because how on earth will the miracle come if they don’t make room and make space for that? That to me felt like a delicious metaphor for what the entire family is going through.” He added, “I was very far outside my comfort zone, and I had my thesaurus with me at all times. The multi-hyphenate wrote eight new songs for “Encanto.” “Dos Oruguitas” is the first song Miranda has written in Spanish. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart since “A Whole New World” from “Aladdin” in 1993. Miranda was last Oscar-nominated five years ago for “How Far I’ll Go” from “Moana,” but lost to “City of Stars” from “La La Land.” The nomination today comes after “Encanto’s” surge on the Billboard album charts and the viral song “We Don’t Talk About Bruno.” The song has exceeded all expectations, becoming the first song from a Disney movie to reach No.
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