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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 ...
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“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” explodes onto screens this week, building on the foundation of the masterful “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” with stunning animation, unforgettable characters, and complex themes. The first note I took after seeing it was “so much movie.”
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By Tom Jorgensen
Updated: May 31, 2023 10:47 pm
Posted: May 31, 2023 1:19 pm
There are great expectations for Miles Morales - from both the people he’s tasked with saving in his world and from us pure viewers to the thrills of that heroism - and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’s boundless energy challenges them at every turn. After 2018’s Into the Spider-Verse - which many consider the best Spider-Man movie to date - the kid who had to learn that anyone could wear the mask has to reckon with what to do with it while the world is watching, and how to hold on to agency in his own story when the past, present, and future are all screaming at him to do things the way they’re supposed to be done. Across the Spider-Verse is as reverent an ode to webslinging - and to the storytelling possibilities of animation - as its forerunner. But, the substance doesn’t always overcome style here, and the specifics of Across the Spider-Verse’s story often get lost in the unstoppable pace of the action. The multiverse is a consistently exciting, yet perilous proving ground for Miles, and though it isn’t perfect, his next big leap as Spider-Man confirms his elevation to hero status was no fluke.
A year on from defeating Kingpin and the destruction of his multiverse-shaking supercollider, Miles (Shameik Moore) is proving himself a true Spidey by struggling to balance his personal and heroic obligations. He’s made significant strides in his day-to-day webslinging, even honing his unique invisibility and venom strike abilities without Peter B. Parker’s (Jake Johnson) mentorship. Where Miles struggles most, though, is seeing himself in a larger context, and continuing to come to terms with what his great power means for his growingly complicated future. That plays out in the expected strife going on between the teen Miles and his parents Rio (Luna Lauren Velez) and Jefferson (Brian Tyree Henry) as they clash over his attitude and desire to take early college courses a whole one state over.
Miles’ early and dismissive encounters with The Spot (Jason Schwartzman) and his many holes have surprising consequences and provide the catalyst needed to put him back in the path of his more experienced extradimensional counterparts. Across the Spider-Verse extrapolates the self-doubt Miles feels in preparing for the next chapter in both of his lives into a full-blown multiversal action epic, with countless Spider-beings swinging by to needle his fragile sense of belonging. Shameik Moore’s performance channels the subtlety of what one year can do to a teen boy’s demeanor and strikes a good balance between Miles’ more pronounced angst - exacerbated by doubters on all sides - with the sensitive tender heart of the gifted and good guy we know him to be. Across the Spider-Verse impressively does so without ever pushing hard enough in one direction to make any of his choices feel outlandish or out of step with his character.
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse surges with visual inventiveness and vibrance in an undeniably strong evolution of the style established in Into the Spider-Verse. Miles and Gwen’s search for their place in the multiverse is relentless and exciting, almost to a fault, and though the plot is often an afterthought to the pure chaos of creation on ...
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Surging with vibrant visuals and relentlessly chaotic action, Across the Spider-Verse is a worthy follow-up to an all-time classic.
Tom Jorgensen
May 31, 2023 · Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse — out June 2nd — from Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson is the bigger, bolder animation triumph you’ve been waiting for.
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Jun 1, 2023 · Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse NYT Critic’s Pick Directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi PG 2h 20m
May 31, 2023 · Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse goes bigger, bolder, and more ambitious. Into the Spider-Verse set a high bar, and its sequel tries to vault past it in every way. By Tasha Robinson, Joshua ...
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