Meta is a word that channels a phrase that’s used very frequently now. When I was a child meta wasn’t used too much and neither was porthole. Now those middle-elementary students are making porthole quips and the upper elementary kids are trying to grasp meta. Our first experience with the word, in a cinematic sense, was Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Movies that make use of meta in their plot have certainly increased, but it’s great to see it when they successfully pull it off. Spider-Man: No Way Home is a superhero meta that weaves together all of the aspects that people love from the webhead’s movies, the MCU, and to an extent, movies overall.
The MCU, via Sony in this case…finds its groove again