Release: May 11, 2022
Film: Spider-Man: No Way Home
Tagline: It's one of the biggest movies in recent years! Let's see what Nostalgia Critic has to say about Spider Man and Doctor Strange's first descent into the multiverse. Let's take a look at Spider-Man: No Way Home.
We remembered these tropes so you don't have to:
- Death Is Cheap: Critic calls upon the death reversals so common in comics in order to ship Osborn with May.
- Don't Touch It, You Idiot!: Critic's Parallel Universe Gun is marked with a sign that goes ignored by Tamara and Malcom:
- Follow the Leader: An Invoked Trope. Critic points out that not only is the film's premise similar to that of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, which released four years earlier, but it's also part of the wave of nostalgic reboots of several older franchises bringing back the original casts one last time.
- Grail in the Garbage: Critic has a Parallel Universe Gun just left in the studio's wardrobe room.
- Look, a Distraction!: Critic is somehow successful in using one to escape Spider-Critic.Critic: LOOK A GUY POINTING!
Spider-Critic: I think it's clear we're not gonna look because it's an obviously fabricated distraction-
<the camera cuts back to reveal that Critic has disappeared>
Spider-Critic: AAAAAAND HE ESCAPED WHILE I WAS EXPLAINING THAT! - Moment of Awesome: Critic invokes this trope, and claims that the scene of Maguire-Spider Man stopping Holland-Spider Man from killing the Goblin by forcibly holding back the goblins' Glider, which the Critic declares could not have been recreated in animation with the power and emotion it carries in live action as it would lack the context of the actor, their films, and their expressions.
- New Powers as the Plot Demands: Critic finds the whole astral projection scene a bit odd, as even the film itself never mentions how Peter can keep the box away from strange despite not being a sorcerer. He does admit the theory of his spidey-sense would explain it, but not satisfactorily.Strange: How...are you doing that!?Critic: Heh heh, that's funny...HOW ARE YOU DOING THAT?!?.
- Special Effects Failure: Invoked. Critic describes the film's CGI as hit-and-miss, but singles out the Lizard as the worst offender despite not looking much better in his original appearance.Critic: He wasn't that great an effect to begin with, but now he looks like a Super Mario Bros. (1993) movie Goomba cheese-sandwiched with the GEICO gecko.
- Weirdness Censor: Oddly defied by the joke with Peter and friends thinking that Doctor Octavius' name is an Atrocious Alias, considering that Avengers: Infinity War had a similar joke involving Peter thinking the same of Doctor Strange's name, as well as Spider-Man 2 quipping about Octavius' name after he gains the mechanical tentacles.
- What Could Have Been: Invoked, making it more like What should Have Been. Critic sees the Goblin's mostly maskless appearance as this for his original appearance, as it allowed Willem Dafoe to become a truly expressive and intimidating (and more source-material-accurate) Green Goblin.
- What the Hell Is That Accent?: In addition to a quip about Paul Giamatti's
Russian accent in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Critic also pokes fun at the American accent that Benedict Cumberbatch puts on for his role as Strange.
"I hate the woods."
