★★★ In spite of a first half that suggests greatness, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse lets itself down with a televisual cliffhanger of an ending 🖋️ christinalefou
Unfortunately, it is overstuffed and overlong, and in spite of a first half that suggests greatness, it lets itself down with a televisual cliffhanger of an ending. A two-parter, but one you have to wait several years to see come to a resolution, is nobody’s idea of a good time at the movies.
Still, like its predecessor, it’s a visually rich animated romp across the metaverse, based in an alternate reality wherein a young Afro-Latino teen from Brooklyn, Miles Morales , unwittingly takes the place of Peter Parker and becomes Spider-Man. The initial film jumped between styles and artistic mediums as its protagonist hopped through the Spider-verse.
We are then re-introduced to Miles, living in a livelier and more realistic animated Brooklyn, and still keeping up his double-life as Spider-Man and as a gifted 15-year-old student with strict but loving parents. When Miles and Gwen face a “villain of the week” named Spot, whose accident with a reactor allows him to create holes to jump through time and space, they soon learn that what began as a minor annoyance has greater will power than they bargained for.
During the visual inventiveness and beauty of the first 45 minutes or so, I was nearly convinced I was watching a new superhero classic – but Across the Spider-Verse lets itself down by leaning into the episodic, more-bang-for-your-buck attitude that spoils so many films like these.
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