Movie Review - Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
The first animated Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse blew everyone away with its visual style and added a compelling story. In order to meet expectations, the sequel Across the Spider-Verse would have to amp up the storyline since we already know what to expect from the visuals. That's asking a lot of a sequel. In my opinion, this movie just barely exceeded my expectations. But most of that is based on the ending and what has been set up for the third movie: Beyond the Spider-Verse.
Visually Dense
This movie is visually exhausting to watch. I mean that as a compliment and a complaint. There are so many details to catch, plus little text bubbles that don't appear long enough to fully parse. This is one of the few movies I could enjoy watching at one-quarter speed. And even at that rate, there are still places I'd have to pause or even rewatch to fully parse everything going on.
Embrace the Multi-Verse
I don't want to get into the specific details, but I think this story embraces the possibilities of the multi-verse better than any that have come before it and I'm excited to see how the story goes forward in the next movie. I'm not sure this will make a lot of sense to everyone, but my feeling is that Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness used the multiverse as a prop, whereas Across the Spider-Verse uses the multi-verse as a foundation.
Grade: A-
| Rated: | (PG) Thematic Elements | Some Language | Animated Action Violence |
| Genres: | Action, Adventure, Animation |
| Starring: | Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Oscar Isaac |
| Director: | Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson |
| Writer(s): | Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Dave Callaham |
| Language: | English |
| Country: | United States |
Plot
Miles Morales returns for the next chapter of the Oscar®-winning Spider-Verse saga, an epic adventure that will transport Brooklyn's full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man across the Multiverse to join forces with Gwen Stacy and a new team of Spider-People to face off with a villain more powerful than anything they have ever encountered.
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