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Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse (2018)

Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse (2018)

RELEASED December 14, 2018 DVD March 19, 2019 RUNTIME 117 mins 

DIRECTORS Rodney Rothman, Peter Ramsey, Bob Persichetti 

WRITERS Stan Lee (characters), Sharon Bridgeman (story artist), Rodney Rothman (screenplay), Phil Lord (screenplay), Steve Ditko (characters), Jane Wu (story artist), John Puglisi (story artist), Heiko Drengenberg (story artist), Denise Koyama (story artist), Mark Ackland (story artist), Miguel Jiron (story artist), Yoriaki Mochizuki (story artist), Riccardo Durante (story artist), Ryan Savas (story artist), Eva Bruschi (story artist), Cody Cameron (story artist), Vi-Dieu Nguyen (story artist), Jihyun Park (story artist), Miles Thompson (story artist) COUNTRY United States LANGUAGE English 

STARS Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld

STUDIOS Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, Marvel Entertainment, Arad Productions, Lord Miller, Pascal Pictures, Sony Pictures 

GENRES Action, Adventure, Animation, Science Fiction, Superhero, Comedy

Streaming on: Netflix




The plot: Miles Morales juggles puberty and being a Spider-Man whilst Kingpin uses a super collider which transports others from the Spiderverse into his dimension.


Random observations:

Of all the alternate universe versions of Spider-Man, Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham appeared in print first and Peni Parker was the last to make her debut.

  • Spider-Ham was first introduced in "Marvel Tails Starring Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham" (November 1983)
  • Spider-Man 2099 made his official debut in "Spider-Man 2099" #1 (March 1992)
  • Spider-Man Noir first appeared in "Spider-Man: Noir #1" (February 2009)
  • The Miles Morales version of Spider-Man's first appearance was in "Ultimate Fallout" #4 (August 2011)
  • The Spider-Gwen version of Spider-Woman made her debut in "Edge of Spider-Verse" #2 (September 2014)
  • Peni Parker and SP//dr first appeared in "Edge of Spider-Verse" #5 (October 2014)

I was lucky enough to get to see this in the theater with my dad. You can pretty well immediately see that the animation style is like nothing before ever attempted.

One of the things the filmmaker did to make this movie look so unique was to not "correct" motion blur, something unheard of at the time.




0.9/1 Directing
0.9/1 Cinematography
1/1 Visual design
1/1 Editing
0.9/1 Plot 
0.8/1 Dialogue
0.9/1 Acting
0.8/1 Soundtrack/Score/Sound
0.9/1 Originality
0.9/1 Rewatchability
Total: 9/10 Binge Bones




The verdict: Only Spider-Man animated feature film thus far, but my favorite Spider-Man film overall. Tell your friends.

 

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