Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Review: A Dazzling and an Epic Ride!

Miles Morales is bitten by a radioactive spider, thus becoming Spiderman, the friendly and heroic neighborhood teenager ready to save not just the world but the entire multiverse. With the help of his friend and inevitable crush, Gwen Stacy as well as a band of other Spider-Man’s Miles must defeat a new villain while also coming to terms with the fate of his future. Following the immense fan and critical success of its predecessor, Spiderman: Into the Spider-Verse, screenwriter Phil Lord, along with Chris Miller, is back with a new chapter in not only the franchise of Spider-Verse films but one in the entire Spider-Man canon.

First and foremost, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is the most visually stunning and advanced animated film we have ever seen. The combination of animated styles that play together through characters and realities Miles finds himself with and in is like no other technology ever witnessed on screen. It is mind blowing to wrap one’s head around how the directors and writers storyboarded the film with over two hours of “blink and you miss it” action sequences, raging colors, angles, and fast-paced editing that only masters could visualize. Santos, Powers, and Thompson’s directing of the film shows their distinct eye for re-envisioning what animation can look like and how it can be lifelike on a movie screen.

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse does a brilliant job paying homage to the various Spider-Man stories throughout the years while also incorporating their relevance to a more in depth storyline. Miles faces his biggest threat yet, one that causes him to examine the difference between stories that have always been told and the importance of being an anomaly in a world of patterns. The writers were able to expand Miles’ story within his own life while also driving home the importance of his role in the story of Spiderman as a whole. It made for an emotional and deep adventure with so much more left to uncover.

The film has a way of expanding upon the theme of family. Across all Spider-Man films there are always familial casualties that signify the beginning of Spider-Man’s ambitions and determination to defeat evil. However, Across the Spider-Verse allows the audience to think about the idea of maintaining the story we have always been told and the need to not accept one’s “destiny” and create his or her own. Never have we felt so deeply connected to Spider-Man’s family in the way that the Spider-Verse films have us feel. This chapter is one that is as good if not even better than the first film and one that should be seen not just in theaters but on the largest screen possible.

‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ Rating – 4/5

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