The Spider-Verse was a cosmos in which different Spider-folk existed in parallel: a multiverse at least as interesting as that of Dr Strange, and more interesting than the solemn awards-prestige of Everything Everywhere All at Once. Instead of yet another MCU live action version, directed and produced in that hard, depthless CGI light, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was a brilliantly inventive animated fantasia about the Spidey mythology, riffing on movies and comic books. It won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature in 2019.I n 2018, writers Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman gave us a delirious and utterly unexpected new web-spin on the infinite self-replication of Marvel Comics IP and its most reliable hero, Spider-Man. Emotionally, it was a paean to kids who don’t always feel welcome in the outcast-friendly world of superheroes. Visually, Into the Spider-Verse felt like a love letter to New York City, Wild Style, and comics themselves. Their Spider-Man was Miles, a teenager from Brooklyn whose world is awash in the borough’s vibrant style. That didn’t come to pass, and Holland has been a stellar Peter Parker, but when Lego Movie directors Chris Miller and Phil Lord were tapped to make an animated Spidey movie, they knew what to do. Other Marvel movies should be so lucky.īack in 2015, when Tom Holland was cast as Spider-Man, there had been rumblings on the internet that maybe the next Spidey series could be fronted by Miles Morales, the half-Latino, half-Black teenager who had been wearing the Spidey suit in Marvel comics’ Ultimate line.
No one is expecting this film to set up Ant-Man 4, and because it exists in the Spider-Verse, it can go where it likes, do what it wants. It’s not that the film is disconnected from the MCU-characters from those movies get nods (and that’s all I’ll say about that)-but rather that it doesn’t bear the narrative burden the live-action movies do. Freed of the responsibilities of continuity with the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the movie swings from joke to plot point with charming alacrity. At two hours and 20 minutes, Across the Spider-Verse runs slightly longer than its predecessor, Into the Spider-Verse, but it sails by just as quickly.
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