Review of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) by Player2-Water — 16 Dec 2018

E-Value: 9.

Acting: 9.

Plot: 9.

Similar to Venom which was released months ago, this is one of the perks from sharing the movie rights of Spider-Man between Sony and Disney. Unlike the previous Spider-Man movies, not only did Spider-Man receive an animated movie with a theatrical release for the first time but it also stars Miles Morales as Spider-Man instead of Peter Parker.

Miles Morales (Moore) is a boarding school student, who admired Spider-Man as a hero. One day while hanging out with his uncle, Aaron Davis, in an abandoned subway, he was bitten by a radioactive spider which gives him similar abilities like Spider-Man. Later on, he discovers a secret laboratory where he witness notorious crime lord, Wilson Fisk/Kingpin (Schreiber), who is building a particle accelerator for some evil purpose and Spider-Man is trying to stop him.

Although Spider-Man successfully disables the machine, Kingpin manages to kill him due to Spider-Man being wounded from the fight. With his death and identity exposed, the city mourns their beloved hero. Inspired by his death, Miles wants to fight crimes to honour him. He is then approach by what appears to be Peter Parker. Confused at first, Miles soon realise that this Peter Parker (Johnson) is actually from another universe where Miles does not exist and he is still Spider-Man but having trouble with his personal life.

Both Peter and Miles learn that Kingpin’s particle accelerator have brought him to Miles’ universe. Peter reluctantly trains Miles to be Spider-Man while working together to stop Kingpin and brings Peter back to his universe using the same machine. They soon find out that Peter isn’t the only one in Miles’ universe as they are join by other Spider-Men from their respective universe including Gwen Stacy/Spider-Woman. Meanwhile, Kingpin is restoring his particle accelerator to use again for his upcoming plan.

Although this movie is not made by Marvel Animation, the movie’s animation done by Sony Pictures Animation is very good and very artistic which actually resemble the actual comic book. The story of using multiverse concept for the movie is well written and utilised without making it complicated or confusion.

The decision of using Miles Morales as Spider-Man is pretty much a good choice in my book because he is lesser known superhero to most people and Peter Parker’s Spider-Man have been very well known to everyone. This is a perfect opportunity for Miles Morales’ Spider-Man to shine.

The voice acting is very good and the casts are managed to deliver their best performances. There are many funny moments which I laughed so many times and those moments make the movie very fun and entertaining to watch. This could be the best Spider-Man movie I have seen so far. Stan Lee had a voice cameo in this movie posthumously which I won’t spoil it here and you may not want to miss this movie. Having said this, I highly recommend you to watch this movie. Be sure to stay back for a post credits scene which could be a hint for future movies.