Review of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) by Jon C — 15 Dec 2018

SONY has succeeded yet again!

This is another one of my favorite Spider-Man movies.

Another entry in the SONY Universe finally portrays Miles Morales on the big screen but he's not the only Spider-person out there.

The animators mostly stick to the original source material of this young kid's origin being raised in Brooklyn NY; Miles is juggling going to a prestigious new school, living with his father who's a police officer and spending time with his uncle Aaron.

Miles ends up getting bit by a radioactive spider gaining all the same traits as the hero we know and love but with added abilities like being able to cloak in invisibility.

The original Spider-Man in his dimension battles Green Goblin working for the Kingpin trying to use his cosmic collider, sadly it ends in tragedy.

Now it's up to Miles to keep the promise he made to this version of Peter Parker to keep not only this world safe but multiple ones as well.

The Kingpin's device works for the most part but it ends up fracturing reality as we know it bringing in others from other dimensions like Peter B. Parker who's more of a slouch and jaded after having bad experiences as Spidey, a version of Gwen Stacy aka Spider-Gwen who lost her best friend, a black-and-white version called Spider-Man Noir from the 1930's, Peni Parker who's DNA bonds with a robotic spider, and an animal version called Spider-Ham who's more of the goofy, Howard-the-Duck esque jokester.

The movie has a lot of charm to it by making so many callbacks to previous media forms of Spider-Man from his comic debut in 1962 to a Christmas album to the Sam Raimi movies to his Aunt May to Mary Jane Watson to Donald Glover to a Spider-lair full of vehicles and various suits but also making a few new changes like a female version of Dock Ock.

Fantastic voice acting from Hailee Steinfeld to Liev Schrieber to Nicholas Cage, stunning animation making the whole thing feel like an actual comic book moving from page-to-page, a sufficient amount of heart, exciting action, one hell of a twist in the middle, and a ton of humor.

It's also got a killer soundtrack.

MIles still has a lot of learn in order to be his best version of himself not copy others, his family doesn't run away from things, the hardest part of the job is knowing you can't save everyone, and figuring out who he wants to be may just be the key to rising to the occasion.

It's also kinda nice to see Stan Lee in one of his last cameos.

The movie has some great messages for everyone not just Spider-Man/comic fans to pick up on; each of us in a way has a power of our own to help the world, anyone can be a superhero in their own way, all it takes is a leap of faith to succeed as well.

A few side villains could have been cut and it was disappointing most of the footage from the trailers didnt make the final cut.

Still, SONY and Marvel seem to be on a the right track and I'm very happy they're still moving forward making more side stories and spinoffs :).