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As Lord and Miller's old space-pirate pal once said, "It's true. Into the Spider-Verse inverts all that memory-holing, embracing a more generous and ecstatic truth. More recently, recurrent reboots keep re-re-restarting the clock, stripping these venerable characters back to the core motivations and identities that made them resonate with their first generation of fans. In ancient times, DC Comics referred to the noncanonical adventures of Superman as "Imaginary Stories," as though all the lower-case imaginary stories were matters of fact.
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(Specifically, Spider-Verse's character design for the Marvel crimelord The Kingpin is clearly borrowed from the Sienkiewicz-painted graphic novel Daredevil: Love and War.)Īnd my god, it's full of stars doing warm, expressive voice work - Shameik Moore as Miles, plus Mahershala Ali, Brian Tyree Henry, and Lily Tomlin, among many, many others - but this Verse would rhyme if you watched it without sound, because the animators have achieved an almost hypnotic effect, without compromising the clarity or emotional intelligence of the storytelling.Ībout that: Spider-Verse introduces several narrators, whose divergent accounts of similar events are rewarding enough to make us forget they're delivering exposition. The crackling imagery occasionally recalls the multimedia collages that artist Bill Sienkiewicz used to blow Marvel fans' four-color minds back in the '80s.
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The movie combines hand-drawn and digital animation with still frames, and even the occasional text panel, not to mention some graphic treatments of Spidey's signature onomatopoeia (rivaled only by Wolverine's snikt! in Mighty Marvel eminence) to achieve a stylized, kinetic visual language unlike any animated or live-action film that came before.
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(Animated films have their own impenetrable continuity.)Īnyway, Spidey's birth name and skin tone aren't the only ways in which this webslinger is, as they say in the comics, All-New. Lord co-wrote the screenplay with Rodney Rothman, who is credited, along with Bob Persichetti and Peter Ramsey, as one of its three directors.
The filmmakers in question: Lego Movie and 21 Jump Street co-directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, formerly of Solo: A Star Wars Story. Movie Reviews 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' Finds Its Footing With A Less Confident SpideyĪfter a parade of intentionally glitchy studio logos cues us that things are going to be a little different here than in the half-dozen Sony-branded Spider-Man movies (give or take a couple of the twenty-odd Marvel Studios movies), the filmmakers drop us head-first into the reality of Miles, a bright, artistically-inclined kid with some serious ambivalence over having earned a coveted slot at a competitive boarding school.
To cite the refrain of this graphically dazzling, generously imaginative, nakedly optimistic, mercilessly funny and inclusive-without-being-all-pious-about-it animated oydssey called Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, "Anyone can wear the mask." Miles became the Spider-Man of the publisher's "Ultimate" line, a spiral arm of the Marvel Universe that. Marvel Comics weathered the ire of reactionary fandom back in 2011 when it introduced Miles Morales, a Spider-Man no less Amazing than that nerdy orphan Peter Parker, but for the fact he was the son of a Puerto Rican ER nurse and an African-American beat cop. Whatever the reason, for a powerful corporation to relax its grip on an ancient specimen of blue-chip IP enough to let the creatives have some fun is a rare thing, and one that should not go unheralded. Maybe someone in a Culver City boardroom got bit by a radioactive MacArthur Fellow. It's hard to fathom that the same Sony Pictures that, in 2012, decided the best way to expand the appeal of its live-action Spider-Man franchise was to start over with lesser movies, has now become smart enough to put its resources into a superb new - really new - Spider-Man cartoon. Listen, bud: Peter Parker (voiced by Jake Johnson) and Miles Morales (voiced by Shameik Moore) swing into action in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
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