One more time

Spider-man, Spider-man, does whatever a spider can … and apparently, that includes taking another swing through movie theaters.

Yeah, the webhead’s back for Labor Day, sending his most recent installment, “No Way Home,” back onto the big screen.

Inevitably, it’s an extended edition — always gotta offer more, right? — but at heart, it dusts off an unfamiliar word: rerelease.

(Enter Obi-wan Kenobi: “Now that’s a word I’ve not heard in a long time. A long time.”)

I know, I know. These days, it seems like every movie we see is a sequel or a reboot of some kind, a tradition that goes back to the earliest days of the industry.

“The Wizard of Oz” from 1939 that we all know and love, for example, was the third version of L. Frank Baum’s children’s story to hit the screen and the 10th Oz film of any kind. Dingdong, the story’s never dead!

But the rerelease was already starting to become a thing of the past in the age of VCRS, never mind a time of streaming, DVD and Bluray options.

Why send “Star Wars” back through first-run theaters for the umpty-umpth time when you can make money from home viewing and save the big screens for your new stuff?

But of course, when you change the setting, you change the story a little bit as well.

Take a movie you’ve seen a thousand times at home, one that you could quote blindfolded. Put it back on the big screen for even one night. You’ll see details that escaped attention, feel the impact of a story in its intended scale … and of the people around you discovering the same thing.