Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse : Movie Review
Another Spider-Man movie? Did they change the lead actor again? Nope. This a totally different kind of Spider-Man movie and it's as true to a comic art as it can get. It's animated, but the art-style is old-school like the comics are and the storyline? Well, it's probably the best one yet.
This time, the central character isn't your friendly neighbourhood Peter Parker, it's young teen Miles Morales. Yes, he is an African-American character who lives in the not-so-nice part of New York and while not poor, he isn't living a life of comfort either. So when he happens to be a smart kid and gets a scholarship to get into a high-society school for prodigious minds, his parents are very much on board with this opportunity. But Miles is not. He's smart but he doesn't want to be part of the snobs. And he wants to work on what really makes him happy: art. Also, his dad is a police officer and his uncle is a cool-but-shady guy who believes in his art.
But this IS a Spider-Man film, so of course there is a Peter Parker, hero of New York and loved by all including Miles. On one particular occasion when Miles is running around in the subway tunnels, he gets bitten by an ominous looking spider and the rest is pretty usual superhero stuff of acquiring new powers and struggling to learn how to use them. He also accidentally falls into a massive underground lab of the villainous KingPin who is engaging the real Spider-Man in an immense battle.
The explosion of colours on the screen in a comic style art animation is something that just made me feel flush with excitement, something we get a lot of in this particular Spidey flick. Now, I'm not gonna tell you what happens next in the plot, but as the trailers suggested, we get a lot more Spideys joining us on this adventure.
A key element that the Spider-Verse movie addressed was to make it more culturally inclusive without making it feel forced as part of some boardroom memo to the writers. Perhaps, it's just I who felt that way about it but even the music selection was up-to-date with the trending artists of 2017-18 who delivered some really good beats.
To give credit for this amazing movie's directors - Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman, almost every scene felt refreshingly entertaining. Kudos to the writers too, Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman again. In terms of casting, another fantastic selection of voice actors with Shameik Moore as Miles while some of the other names I'll tell without revealing who they voice - Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld, Zoe Kravitz, John Mulaney, Chris Pine and Nicolas Cage.
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse is best enjoyed in 3D but even if you can't doesn't mean you shouldn't watch it. It's a film about adolescence, superheroes and most of all, family (without being too cringe). I'd rate this one 7.5 out of 8 slices of pizza.
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This time, the central character isn't your friendly neighbourhood Peter Parker, it's young teen Miles Morales. Yes, he is an African-American character who lives in the not-so-nice part of New York and while not poor, he isn't living a life of comfort either. So when he happens to be a smart kid and gets a scholarship to get into a high-society school for prodigious minds, his parents are very much on board with this opportunity. But Miles is not. He's smart but he doesn't want to be part of the snobs. And he wants to work on what really makes him happy: art. Also, his dad is a police officer and his uncle is a cool-but-shady guy who believes in his art.
But this IS a Spider-Man film, so of course there is a Peter Parker, hero of New York and loved by all including Miles. On one particular occasion when Miles is running around in the subway tunnels, he gets bitten by an ominous looking spider and the rest is pretty usual superhero stuff of acquiring new powers and struggling to learn how to use them. He also accidentally falls into a massive underground lab of the villainous KingPin who is engaging the real Spider-Man in an immense battle.
The explosion of colours on the screen in a comic style art animation is something that just made me feel flush with excitement, something we get a lot of in this particular Spidey flick. Now, I'm not gonna tell you what happens next in the plot, but as the trailers suggested, we get a lot more Spideys joining us on this adventure.
A key element that the Spider-Verse movie addressed was to make it more culturally inclusive without making it feel forced as part of some boardroom memo to the writers. Perhaps, it's just I who felt that way about it but even the music selection was up-to-date with the trending artists of 2017-18 who delivered some really good beats.
To give credit for this amazing movie's directors - Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman, almost every scene felt refreshingly entertaining. Kudos to the writers too, Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman again. In terms of casting, another fantastic selection of voice actors with Shameik Moore as Miles while some of the other names I'll tell without revealing who they voice - Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld, Zoe Kravitz, John Mulaney, Chris Pine and Nicolas Cage.
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse is best enjoyed in 3D but even if you can't doesn't mean you shouldn't watch it. It's a film about adolescence, superheroes and most of all, family (without being too cringe). I'd rate this one 7.5 out of 8 slices of pizza.
Thanks for checking out my review, hope you enjoyed reading it and feel free to subscribe to The Sane Lunatic to get updated about my latest content. Cheers!
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