The latest installment in the hugely successful Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man: No Way Home, can't stop, won't stop breaking records, with the sequel now holding the title for highest-rated movie in terms of audience rating on review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes. Taking to Twitter to celebrate the beloved web-slinger's latest achievement, Spider-Man: No Way Home currently sits at a 99% audience approval rating with more than 25,000 verified reviews.
“With a 99% Audience Score #SpiderManNoWayHome is currently our highest rated movie with a minimum of 20k Verified Audience Ratings,” the website said of the overwhelmingly positive response to Marvel’s latest adventure. This deliciously fresh approval rating puts Spider-Man: No Way Home way above its Spidey predecessors, with Spider-Man 2 at 82%, The Amazing Spider-Man at 77%, and Spider-Man: Homecoming sitting at 87%.
Spider-Man: No Way Home was by far one of the most discussed movie of the year, and it’s no doubt tremendously satisfying for fans to see the movie live up to such hype. The critical response to Spider-Man: No Way Home has also been matched by its financial success, with the movie grossing over $779 million worldwide and thus becoming the third highest-grossing movie of 2021.
Spider-Man: No Way Home picks up with the friendly neighborhood superhero following Peter Parker's identity as Spider-Man being exposed by Mysterio. With his life and reputation having now been turned upside down, Parker decides to ask his friend and colleague Doctor Strange to help restore his secret identity with magic. Unfortunately for both Parker and The Sorcerer Supreme, the spell goes horribly awry, thanks seemingly to Peter’s inability to keep his mouth shut, and breaks open the madness of the multiverse, allowing supervillains from alternate realities who have previously fought a variant of Spider-Man to arrive in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Such huge success both financially and critically will have both Marvel and Sony looking to Spider-Man's future. Lead actor Tom Holland has also been doing some thinking, and believes that now may the time to start pushing Peter Parker into the background in favor of other Spider-People. "I'd like to see Miles, I'd like to see Silk,” the actor said recently. “I think you could do a really cool Jackpot movie."
While the initial news of a fourth outing for Tom Holland’s Spider-Man has since been somewhat watered down, Spider-Man: No Way Home screenwriters Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers are hoping to return for more. "This is one where we don't have to say that we're not allowed to say because we truly don't know,” the writing duo said earlier this week. “To my knowledge, I'm not aware of any future projects in the works. That doesn't mean they don't exist, but that's nothing that you know anyone has talked to Chris and I about. I certainly hope so. I love Tom as Spider-Man. I hope there's more, and I would love nothing more than to be involved. But at this point, we don't know."
Directed by Jon Watts and starring Tom Holland, Zendaya, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jacob Batalon, Jon Favreau, Jamie Foxx, Willem Dafoe, Alfred Molina, Benedict Wong, Tony Revolori, Marisa Tomei, and more, Spider-Man: No Way Home was released in the United States on December 17, 2021, as part of Phase Four of the MCU.