WOW – the visual effects leader tour continues with another STUNNER trailer from Marvel Studios. I almost sound like a broken record, but this trailer is spotless in spoilers. The spots of information they give us in the trailer are still so out of context, like Mysterio, that it’s hard to pinpoint what’s going on and why. That’s not a bad thing in this case – amazingly cut and stunningly visual. Lets get going and break this down frame by frame.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you…

Spider-Man Far From Home

We open with Aunt May and your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man at a community charity event. Lowest of keys, ammiright? Coming off a tumultuous and yet unrevealed (respectively) ending to IW and Endgame, Pete seems to be staying low to the ground, so to speak, for the time being. Happy comes through the door with a large check in size and monetary value, and he has an awkward moment with Aunt May with Parker in between them looking all sorts of confused. Did something happen between them in the time that we don’t know about? Guess we’ll find out…

So here we find Peter Parker packing for a school trip to Europe; doing normal stuff like picking up supplies at the bodega and getting a passport. He struggles with the idea of taking his Spidey suit with him. Why would there be a need for the Wall Crawler out there, right? Side note: he’s using Uncle Ben’s suitcase. Just a glance, but you can see his initials on the brass plate. Whaaaaa.

So here’s Pete, enjoying his trip and being ungodly awkward with MJ, and BAM Nicky ******** Fury. Ok, wrong movie Fury, oh ok this is the right movie? Move along. He kind of seems like “Fury” but doesn’t seem like Fury. His mannerisms are a little off (more on that later). He tells Parker to get dressed and calls him ‘Spider-Man.’

We see Peter taking about Fury hijacking his summer plans. Next we see Spider-Man jumping off a building to go towards a burning London Bridge. There’s something in the sky, mix of lighting, smoke, and fire. Seems…special effects-y. Next we see a possible villain to the movie, it’s either hydro-man in dirt or sand-man. I know we see Hydro-man in a few shots, but doesn’t mean this is him, too. Fury tells Spider-Man that they have a job to do as we get a better shot of the sky over the London Bridge, uh this ain’t good.

Explosions, thwip, more explosions, thwip thwip – do we get to see a new villain? All molten and on fire. This, I want to be a surprise. Then, we get a voice over and a quick shot of Happy telling, we assume, Peter, “you’re all alone”. Could be Aunt May. Could be Happy talking about the end to Endgame, or that Spider-Man is all alone in England and he has to step up and be a hero. This is where we get a GREAT shot of Hydro-man. So well done and then the pièce de rèsistance of the trailer… MYSTERIO LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. Making his MCU debut is Jake Gyllenhaal as the usually-a-villain Mysterio. We also get to see a solid black ‘stealth’ suit for Spider-Man which is awesome. It reminds me of the Spider-Man Noir suit from the comics.

Mysterio seems to be playing the role of the hero. Is he working for S.H.I.E.L.D.? Mysterio is a former actor turned super villain who uses pyrotechnics and master illusions to depose of his advisories. Is he responsible for the night sky? Is this just smoke and mirrors? Could he be the real villain trying to draw Spider-Man out? Did he use illusions to play Nick Fury and draw Peter our into the open? SO MANY QUESTIONS!

We can always rely on the Flash one liners, dickwad.

9/10