Spider-Man The crazy, colourful, frantic, bold, and amazing world of Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) comes back, but this time it is even crazier, more colourful, and more frenetic. It has also gone bigger and bolder than the first Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse movie.
Spider-Man the Spider-Verse
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, which was written by Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and David Callaham and directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson, is still Miles Morales’ story, but it is not simply his story. It also involves Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfield). The plot revolves around a will-they-won’t-they romance and parental dread. It tells the tale of Spider-Man’s character and what makes the web-slinger a superhero. It’s also a beautifully worded visual feast.
Your mind is blown numerous times in the opening sequence alone of Across the Spider-Verse, offering you a taste of what is to come. The story opens in Gwen’s world of watercolour hues that shift with the changing emotions.
Multiple Spider-beings entered Miles’ realm in Spider-Man: Into the Spider Verse. As he attempts to defeat Spot (Jason Schwartzman), a wormhole-producing baddie who initially appears to be a comedic “villain of the week” before becoming into a supervillain that threatens the multiverse, Miles is this time travelling to the realities of some other Spider-beings.
We are drawn into the realities of an elite Spider-force with Miles, who is tasked with containing anomalies that pose a threat to the survival of universes. The gang is captained by the brooding, sinister Miguel O’Hara (Oscar Isaac), who is also known as Spider-Punk. Other members of the team include the charismatic Pavitr Prabhakar (Karan Soni), a fierce motorcycle-riding Spider-Woman named Jessica Drews (Issa Rae), the scene-stealing Spider-Punk aka Hobie (Daniel Kaluuya), and many others.
With so many tales intertwining, turmoil is to be expected, and while it is chaotic, it is defined chaos, which is a testament to the writers, such that you never lose the thread no matter how many vibrant universes you are racing through.
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One of the Spider-beings quips, “Spider Man is supposed to be funny,” and in classic Spider Man fashion, Spider-Man: Across the Spider Verse never loses its sense of humour, even when it explores far darker subjects. You’ll laugh out loud at some of those instances, such as the Spider Man duel between Spot and Miles’ Spider Man involving bubble baths and a runaway goose. However, it never takes away from the film’s emotional core, which includes Gwen’s relationship with her father, the ups and downs in Miles and Gwen’s friendship, or Miles’s parents’ concerns about how the rest of the world would treat their son.
But what makes Spider Man: Across the Spider Verse a superlative film is its animation. The visuals are spectacular, they change with every world. While Gwen’s world is awash in watercolours, Prabhakar’s Mumbattan is marked by old-school Indian comic book style art. There are black-and-white sketch art sequences blended with mixed media collages that borrow from on-screen and comic book sequences.
Given how high the bar has been raised and the third film in the trilogy, Beyond the Spider Verse, already being teased, we can surely hope to call this the best Spider Man trilogy there was.