Review of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) by Blingiman — 07 Jan 2019

(TLDR at bottom)Wow, just wow, this movie was absolutely fantastic, I loved every second of it, my only problem was that there wasn't more of it, thats how much I loved this movie. The animation is drop dead gorgeous and makes me hope that there are more theatrically released animated comic book movies, this film only had a budget of $90 million and they were able to do so much with the budget they were given, and the animation tricks they used to cut costs actually fit in perfectly with the style of animation to make it feel like a living, breathing comic book.

The story wasn't particularly complex but it didn't need to be, it knows exactly what it is and it nails it. The casting was great too, I thought I wasn't going to like Jake Johnson as a middle aged slob Peter Parker but I loved every second of him, Shameik Moore as Miles Morales was great and absolutely nailed the role as a high schooler trying to find his place in the world, Nicholas Cage was hilarious as spider-man noir and stole every scene he was in and it makes me happy to see this awesome character finally recognized by mainstream audiences and I was quite surprised by the more comedic take on him, but it worked perfectly.

Kingpin was an alright bad guy, not bad, but not doc ock from spider-man 2. He worked for what the film was and if they over characterized him the film would probably feel overstuffed, so i'm glad that they went with what they did.

TLDR: Into the Spider-verse is easily the best spider-man film in my opinion and definitely deserves your money, show sony that we'll support great filmaking like this so we don't get really bad but kind of enjoyable films like venom.

They'll listen to your wallets, so go out and support this film because it absolutely deserves it.