Peter Parker's life gets a much more thorough spotlight in this movie that it did in Captain America: Civil War. The focus is split between his life fighting crime as Spider-Man and his time as a high school student.
Peter gets a sidekick in the form of Ned his nerdy. heavyset classmate who finds out early on that Peter is also Spider-Man. Ned wants Peter to use his super-hero identity to make them popular at school. Peter is a little too busy being Spider-Man to do that.
Peter has a crush on one of his classmates, Liz. The problem is that he keeps running off to fight criminals as Spider-Man: at her party, at the academic decathlon, at the dance. In the comic books there is (or at least was) a character named Liz Allen. She was similar in that she was someone whom Peter had a crush on but whom he felt was way out of his league. The Liz in the movie is clearly modeled after the character in the comic books in that way but there is at least one way that she is significantly different in the movie.
The main bad guy is played by Michael Keaton. He is a man with a salvage business that gets its government contract pulled away from it by the Department of Damage Control. He and some of his employees use the technology which they have already salvaged (but not turned over to the government) to start another line of business making high tech weapons that they sell to criminals. He is the main bad guy but he doesn't have any quality scenes with the hero until the third act.
There are a number of little cameos that were fun to see. Donald Glover (Community) shows up as the criminal who wants to buy a gun but whom the bad guys try to up-sell a much more powerful weapon. Captain America shows up in a few PSA videos that Peter and his classmates are forced to watch. Martin Starr (Freaks and Geeks) shows up as the coach for the academic decathlon team.
I enjoyed Peter's attempts to master the suits full capabilities once he had unlocked them after Ned disabled the Training Wheels app in the suit. I couldn't place the actress who was the voice of the suit when I was watching the movie. It was Jennifer Connelly.
On the whole I really liked this movie. My only real complaint is that some two of the fight scenes that took place at night were very dark. It was very difficult to tell what exactly was happening.
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