The second reboot in a five-year span, Sony’s Spider-Man: Homecoming brought Marvel Studios into the creative fold and created a Peter Parker who, rather than being New York’s only hero, more closely matched his dynamic in modern comics: a small-scale player in a larger tapestry.

This afforded Sony, Marvel and director Jon Watts the opportunity to craft a Spidey saga with a much younger feel (Tom Holland was only 19 when he appeared in Captain America: Civil War, while Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield first played Spider-Man at 26 and 28, respectively).

The result is much simpler than Sam Raimi’s trilogy and much lighter than Marc Webb’s Amazing Spider-Man films, with a roster of actors who feel plucked from a high-school Disney movie. Its biggest strength is that it lives in-the-moment, coasting on a sense of levity that feels aptly threatened whenever the plot takes serious turns. However, this momentary nature also results in characters that feel malformed, and a story that often remains in stasis.

In our continuing look back at Peter Parker’s cinematic journey, we revisit the character’s solo arrival in the MCU, which has the right vibe on the surface, though it rarely goes deeper than that.