Here's Every New Scene Added To Spider-Man: No Way Home's 'More Fun Stuff' Rerelease

Sony rereleased Spider-Man: No Way Home in theaters under the title Spider-Man: No Way Home, The More Fun Stuff Version, and it comes packed with a handful of new scenes stitched into the existing film. I went through the added footage in order to break down what actually made it in, and what it does or doesn't add to the story.

The Three Spider-Men Open the Rerelease With a Thank You to Fans

Before the new cut even gets going, there's a fresh zoom call between the three Peters, Tom Holland, Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire, essentially thanking fans for turning the film into something bigger than just another Spider-Man movie. Tobey says it was "a beautiful experience" for him, and then both he and Tom surprise Andrew by telling him they love him, a callback to Andrew's improvised line from the theatrical cut where he told the other two Spider-Men he loved them during the fight at the Statue of Liberty.

It doesn't necessarily add to the film, but it's cool to see how much this film meant to the three of them.

Agent Cleary's Damage Control Interrogation Gets Extended

The rereleased version extends the Damage Control interrogation scenes between Agent Cleary and Peter. Cleary presses Peter on why most of his fights ended up destroying monuments or attractions, bringing up the Washington Monument and the Ferris wheel from Homecoming, the Tower Bridge in London, and the Ferris wheel from Far From Home. Cleary clearly believes Peter has some overarching agenda, and even brings up the Night Monkey, asking who that alter ego really is, a cheeky nod back to Far From Home.

Aunt May's own questioning gets extended too, though it's mostly just a line or two added here or there. Honestly, I'm surprised there wasn't a joke worked in about My My Cousin Vinny, since Marisa Tomei starred in that film and the MCU loves this kind of reference for the older crowd in the audience.

Harry Holland's Street Thug Scene Finally Makes the Cut

One scene that had been rumored for a while finally shows up here: Tom Holland's brother Harry plays a street thug that Spider-Man strings up outside a storefront after he steals someone's bag. It plays out pretty much beat for beat with what had been reported, Harry gets chased down, webbed up, and Spidey takes the bag back. Things get more interesting after that, as more and more passersby stop to argue over whether Spider-Man should even be helping, and one bystander starts questioning whether the whole thing is an elaborate setup by Spider-Man himself.

That's where the green paint comes into play. A Mysterio supporter runs up, throws paint on Spider-Man's suit, yells "murderer," and runs off shouting that Mysterio was right, which explains the paint Peter is later shown scrubbing off his suit. It's a little clunky, but the biggest takeaway for me is the street-level, everyday citizen's view of Spider-Man after the scandal from Far From Home. I do wish there had been more of a Mysterio cult angle rather than one person with a paint can, though the runtime probably would have felt bloated if they'd leaned further into it.

J. Jonah Jameson's "Dingus" Jab Sends Peter Back to School

A lot of the new material is wedged into the opening hour, and some of it is pretty forgettable. There's a quick clip of J. Jonah Jameson calling the mayor a "dingus" during a Daily Bugle broadcast, which is what clears Peter to go back to school, leading into Peter doing a walk of fame past his classmates. That bit ends on a stinger of a random student almost looking directly into the camera in amazement, saying he can't believe Peter was his lab partner, though it's never clear who this student is supposed to be.

Mr. Wilson's Gym Class Taunt Delivers My Favorite Line in the Rerelease

What might be my favorite added scene is a new gym class moment with Peter's teacher Mr. Wilson, played by Hannibal Buress. Wilson doesn't like Spider-Man and buys into the Mysterio conspiracy, believing Mysterio was right, and true to bullying gym-teacher form, he starts a chant of "climb it, climb it," getting more and more students to join in.

A defeated Peter leaps onto the gym wall, the crowd gasps as silence falls over them, and Wilson, with the most deadpan, astonished look on his face, comments on how impressed he is watching him climb. I audibly laughed at this one, and so did most of the theater I saw it in. It doesn't necessarily enhance anything in the story, but that single line from Buress really got me.

Flash's Book Signing and Betty Brant's School News Interviews

There's a random clip of Flash signing his Flashpoint book for fellow students in the hallway that doesn't seem to add anything either way. The biggest chunk of new material, a solid three-ish minutes, is a series of interviews Betty Brant conducts with classmates and teachers for the school's news channel. She asks about conspiracy theories, asks Ned what an inappropriate text to send at midnight would be, and asks how Peter would react if he could talk to the spider that bit him.

Clips from this section were, I think, actually used on the Daily Bugle's TikTok page when the film was originally in theaters for marketing, so it feels like leftover material that got shoved into this cut. It is a little funny, mostly because of how deliberately bad the green screen looks and how strange some of Betty's interview questions are.

The Undercroft Montage Only Adds a Few Shots, Plus a Strange Sanctum Sanctorum Detail

The undercroft montage, where the kids set up their base while dealing with the different villains, was a sequence I was genuinely looking forward to seeing more of, but it only ends up adding about three shots, mostly Ned plugging in an extension cord and a stack of boxes falling over as a result.

One interesting detail is a small diorama of the Sanctum Sanctorum sitting on a table that MJ investigates. Looking closer, near where the seal of Vishanti would be on the building, there's a shadowy figure walking around inside the tiny structure. I think it's just Doctor Strange spying on the kids downstairs, but it's a strange thing to include if it doesn't really add up to anything. Maybe there's more to it that I'm missing, but I'm not entirely sure.

A Second Daily Bugle Bit Turns Sandman's Fight Into a "Dirt Man" Punchline

J. Jonah Jameson gets another Daily Bugle bit, and I have to say it's the funniest of all of them. In it, an electric grid worker calls into the show describing how he saw the fight between Spider-Man, Electro and Sandman go down the night before. It works because of how literal his description is, talking about speaking to the "dirt man" right before the "power monster" disappeared in some sparkly webbing.

The Villains Share a Calm Elevator Ride Before Wrecking Happy's Apartment

The elevator scene with all of the villains riding up to Happy's apartment has already been shown in clips before this rerelease, and it amounts to about five or six seconds of the characters calmly riding up together. There are zero stakes to it, but it's a fun little scene that captures the enjoyment the cast clearly had making this film, based on behind-the-scenes material that's been shown before.

From what I understand, it was cut from the theatrical version because Jon Watts wanted to keep the pacing moving, and to be honest, it does slow things down a bit. Even so, I think the calm of that ride up is nicely juxtaposed against the chaos that follows once Green Goblin starts tearing through the apartment on the way down.

Matt Murdock and Happy Hogan Face Damage Control in a Lawyer Meeting

Happy's meeting with his lawyer was rumored to be among the deleted scenes at one point, but it never made the Blu-ray extras, so it's a bit of a surprise to see it show up here. Earlier in the film, Matt Murdock tells Happy he's going to need a good lawyer because the feds still have questions for him, and this scene follows through on that, putting Matt and Happy in a conference room with Agent Cleary and a handful of other agents and lawyers.

Happy's phone buzzes mid-meeting with a notification from his apartment's security camera, showing the same black-and-white clip of the villains, Peter and Aunt May sneaking into his apartment. Happy reacts in a panic, with Matt leaning over telling him to stop sweating, to which a still frantic Happy asks how he's supposed to do that. Not much is added here beyond some cute jokes, though it is a little meta seeing Matt Murdock and Foggy Nelson practicing law together again, since Happy is played by Jon Favreau, who played Foggy in the 2003 Daredevil film, even though this is a different Matt Murdock entirely.

The Three Spider-Men's Statue of Liberty Banter Hints at Andrew Garfield's Unfinished Trilogy

There were rumors going into this rerelease of an extended conversation between the three Spider-Men while they wait for the villains to approach the Statue of Liberty, and what's here mostly amounts to a line or two added to what was already in the theatrical version. Part of it touches on second chances, which for Andrew Garfield's Spider-Man ties back to failing to save Gwen Stacy in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, but also plays almost like foreshadowing for him saving MJ later in that same fight.

Maybe I'm looking too deep into this conversation, but it feels like an almost self-aware line from Andrew about never getting to finish his Amazing Spider-Man trilogy after Sony pulled the plug and rebooted the character into the MCU instead. This film played almost like his own second chance at putting on the suit again, and given the positive reception to his performance, he might get another shot at finishing that trilogy someday, though Gwen isn't coming back either way. The rest of the exchange is just funny banter about how the other two don't understand Tobey Maguire's ability to organically produce his own web fluid, ending with Andrew's Spider-Man saying he wants to see his holes.

The New Post-Credits Scene Shows How Doctor Strange's Spell Erased Peter

The rerelease also adds an actual, proper post-credits scene. It opens on a television in the school hallway playing a segment about graduation photos and a really cheesy PSA about lunchroom safety, before cutting to a final send-off from Betty Brant. It's shot like a graduation wrap-up, with Betty saying, "we've had all of these memories together, almost died a couple of times... who can forget the experiences, the fun, and the events we all had together," while clips and photos from Homecoming and Far From Home, including the decathlon trip, play behind her.

Peter is missing from every single one of those photos, not erased the way Marty McFly disappears in Back to the Future, but cropped out of frame, or in one shot, blocked by a bird flying past at just the right moment. It illustrates how Doctor Strange's spell actually worked, everyone still has the memories of these events, just with no trace of Peter having been there. I'm surprised this wasn't included in the theatrical cut, since it would have helped explain Peter's situation at the end of the film, and it also underlines that this is the end of the road for some of these characters as they graduate and move on. The scene then leads into the trailer for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

My Overall Take: A Bummer for Anyone Expecting a True Director's Cut

Aside from some random one-off lines or a joke here or there, this is pretty much the same version of No Way Home. I half joked that they should have called it the More Money version rather than the More Fun Stuff version, since it doesn't compare to how other rereleases, like the Once Upon a Deadpool Christmas PG cut, actually changed things up with different jokes. For anyone expecting this rerelease to be packed with deleted scenes and Blu-ray style extras, this is a real bummer.

Do you think any of these added scenes should have made it into the original theatrical cut of the film?