“A superhero movie by way of John Hughes” is the feeling that Homecoming wears on its sleeve, proudly including a television playing Ferris Bueller’s Day Off in one shot. It also does a better job of presenting day-to-day life in a world with supernatural forces - not with the modern noir grittiness of Matt Murdock’s Hell’s Kitchen or the matryoshka doll secrets and weird science of SHIELD, but just by just letting us look at some kids, in high school, thinking about college, sitting in P.E.
Here’s a funny thing: Despite being the first installment in a Sony Spider-Man franchise, Spider-Man: Homecoming does a better job of feeling organically a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe than any of Marvel’s television projects.