Recently, I saw Spiderman Into The Spiderverse. This is the first animated Spiderman movie and takes a different approach to the story, as the movie centers around Miles Morales, not Peter Parker. The movie is about the daily life of Miles Morales and his life around another Spiderman, Peter Parker. But when something happens that changes Miles’ identity, he must overcome the negative to become the new true Spiderman.
An interesting thing about this movie is that it is set across new universes, where the Spiderman we know is in another universe, and the “Mile Morales” Spiderman is actually from another universe — the universe we focus on. I’m not going any deeper into the story because I want you to experience this “amazing” movie (no pun intended 😉 ) if you haven’t seen it.
All jokes aside, this movie was very well handled. First off, the animation was spectacular. The visual effects team needed to create a new technique of animation to get the film to have a “comic-book” feel. And coming from the studio who made the Emoji Movie, I was genuinely surprised at how good this movie looked. The characters and story were also phenomenal. For mainstream audiences, Mile Morales isn’t exactly the well-known Spiderman we know, so during the first half an hour when we see Miles, we can almost connect to him on the same level we connected with Peter Parker in the earlier Spiderman movies. The side characters, like Peter Parker, were also extremely hilarious and also were pivotal to crafting the character arc Miles goes through. The music was also spectacular, as artists such as Post Malone and Vince Staples lead an amazing soundtrack.
If I had one flaw with this movie, it is that the villains could have been fleshed out more. I felt that I didn’t care for them, which isn’t all bad, as that time for the villains was perfectly used to create interesting side characters that Miles would interact with.
In the end, I’m going to give Spiderman Into The Spiderverse an A. Thank you guys for reading this review and have a fantastic rest of your day.