The original trilogy of Spider-Man films concluded in 2007, with Tobey Maguire’s version of the web-slinger burying his best friend, Harry, and potentially reconnecting with his love, Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst). There was supposed to be a fourth movie, but it never materialized, leaving fans of that trilogy with little closure.
Instead, Sony rebooted Spidey in 2012 with a new guy at the lead, Andrew Garfield. The responses to his movies were middling at best, and his saga ended after “Amazing Spider-Man 2,” which left his version of Peter in a dark place, mourning the death of his girlfriend, Gwen Stacy. Fans of that would-be trilogy didn’t get any closure either.
That is, until the Tom Holland version of Spider-Man got himself in a little multiversal trouble and accidentally brought the two past versions of Spider-Man into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, along with some of their most famous villains in “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” aka the highest-grossing film of 2021.
Seeing all three of them interact on-screen would’ve been worth it, but we also got to see Maguire reconcile with two of his villains, and, most importantly, we saw Garfield’s Peter Parker save MJ (Zendaya) from falling, redeeming his mistake from eight years prior.
