ANOTHER SPIDER-MAN?

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

[Devin Dayley]

Year released: 2018

Directors: Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rodman

Stars:

Shameik Moore

Jake Johnson

Hailee Steinfeld

General Summary: this film is an animated feature. It is set in New York City as a boy, Miles Morales (Moore) becomes the new Spider-Man. Meeting five spider-men, and spider-women, from alternate dimensions, the six must work together to defeat a threat that is dangerous in all dimensions. All the while, Miles is learning the mental and physical skills required to be Spider-Man.

Review:

What did I think of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse? I freakin LOVED it! I went in with the mindset of “I can’t believe I am seeing another Spider-Man movie. I know it’ll suck because it’s an animation AND it’s pg; it’s practically a kids movie! This’ll be a waste of time.” Boy was I wrong. I am surprised, pleasantly surprised, at how wrong I was. The film takes a whole new approach to the legend of Spider-Man and pokes fun at the fact that so many iterations of this story has been done.

The animation is a separate story all on it’s own. The reason that this film was animated is not because it’s a kids movie, it’s because having the film be animated adds to the “comic book nature.” The story of Spider-Man does come from a comic book series, for those of you who don’t know, so it was nice to have this film pay homage to its original medium in it’s animation technique. You may be asking how can a film be like a comic book? Let me tell you. There are, at times, squiggles coming out of people’s heads, people’s thoughts are, at times, projected on screen, even the way the characters are drawn are simplistic, as would have been in a comic book, yet detailed, perfect for an animated film made for a technologically advanced world in 2018.

Real quick, I just want to mention the colors. One more pro of using animation is that there can be a lot more color and the color can be more vibrant, which it was. My one real complaint with this film is that Miles’ relationship with his uncle did not get explored more.

I would rate this movie as a solid 9.2/10