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The Spider-Verse also introduced us to the multiverse by grouping a bunch of different spider-people across different universes together. Across the Spider-Verse, the first of two sequels to Into The Spider-Verse, is mostly set just over a year after the events of the first film.
Miles Morales (voiced by Shameik Moore) has finally become comfortable and confident in being his universe’s sole Spider-Man. He effortlessly fights villains on the streets, but it’s causing trouble at home as Miles’ parents struggle to understand why their son is so secretive and withdrawn.
To say anything more about the plot would be to spoil many of Across the Spider-Verse’s delightful surprises. Much like its, Across The Spider-Verse is certainly one of the best films of the year and certainly the most visually dazzling (though we suspect Barbie might be coming for that title).
All the Spider-people get their signature animation styles and each is more innovative than the one before. Gwen’s world is painted with striking purples and pinks in soft brush strokes while Spider-Punk (Daniel Kaluuya with a scene-stealing voice performance) looks more chaotic, fitting for a die-hard anarchist.
Directors Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson create memorable, beautiful visuals so effortlessly, but Across The Spider-Verse is also a sensory overload, a completely overwhelming experience. It throws everything at you, both in terms of visuals and exposition, at an alarming rate.
The film also succumbs to fan service. Granted, Across the Spider-Verse does it in a rather brilliant, satisfying way but the film comes dangerously close to feeling a little smug. It will take several viewings to catch the numerous references to previous iterations of the character, but for the most part, the film pulls it off and this might just be the definitive Spider-Man film. We won’t spoil anything here, but there’s a very rewarding sense of harmony to the film’s multiversal proceedings.
Across The Spider-Verse dives into what it really means to be a superhero, or Spider-Man specifically, and the film actually manages to answer that question before boldly challenging it again. It’s exactly that boldness that defined Into the Spider-Verse and will also define this film. In an era of endless remakes and sequels, Across the Spider-Verse manages to make itself not only relevant, but exemplary. This is how you make a sequel.
Across the Spider-Verse is also clearly only the first part of a bigger story. This is currently a common phenomenon in Hollywood; Mission Impossible is doing it this summer and even Wicked has been split into two parts. The most obvious comparison is Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame. Where those films had full story arcs – Infinity War works perfectly well on its own while setting up the next film – Across The Spider-Verse fails to find an ending.
Miles Morales, our main protagonist, is a Black and Puerto Rican high school student from Brooklyn. Much like the other Spider-Men, he was bitten by a radioactive spider and was given superpowers in his dimension of Earth-1610. He meets Gwen Stacy in the first Spider-Verse movie and she comes back to visit him in the second installment, which kicks off a series of events that unfold throughout Across The Spider-Verse. His father was recently promoted to captain of the police force, a development which drives the tension in the new movie. Miles is also up against a supervillain named The Spot (f.k.a. Dr. Jonathan Ohnn, voiced by Jason Schwartzman), who has set out to destroy everything he loves.
Miles Morales, our main protagonist, is a Black and Puerto Rican high school student from Brooklyn. Much like the other Spider-Men, he was bitten by a radioactive spider and was given superpowers in his dimension of Earth-1610. He meets Gwen Stacy in the first Spider-Verse movie and she comes back to visit him in the second installment, which kicks off a series of events that unfold throughout Across The Spider-Verse. His father was recently promoted to captain of the police force, a development which drives the tension in the new movie. Miles is also up against a supervillain named The Spot (f.k.a. Dr. Jonathan Ohnn, voiced by Jason Schwartzman), who has set out to destroy everything he loves.
As Miguel O’Hara is explaining the concept of canon events — occurrences that happen in every Spider-Man’s timeline, like loved ones dying — footage from different Spider-Man universes appears onscreen. Miles learns that every Spider-Person deals with loss in their own way in order to keep balance in the multiverse. Footage from “The Amazing Spider-Man” is shown, with Andrew Garfield’s Peter Parker witnessing the death of Capt. George Stacy, played by Denis Leary.
JESS DREW/SPIDER-WOMAN
Across the Spider-Verse’s Jess Drew is an original creation, but she owes her name (and overall look) to comic book predecessor Jessica Drew, the original Spider-Woman. Created in 1976 in a rush to stop an animation studio from grabbing the trademark to the Spider-Woman name, comic book Jessica actually has no real relation to either Peter Parker or Miles Morales, having instead acquired her powers in a bewilderingly arcane origin involving HYDRA, her geneticist father, and possibly a talking cow. Spider-Verse’s Jess is thus a wholesale reinvention of the concept — though comics Jess did famously have a book in which she did superhero stuff while pregnant — that owes a certain debt to her elder counterpart.
SPIDER-PUNK
Every so often, a terrible idea turns out to be unexpectedly brilliant. Such was the case for Earth-138’s version of Hobie Brown (better known in our more familiar Earth-616 as Spider-Man’s longtime ally — yes, ally! — the Prowler). Hobie was transformed via spider bite into the punk-rocking, trash-talking Spider-Punk. Fascinatingly, this Spider-Man was the subject of a minor dispute between his creators, with artist Olivier Coipel intending him to be a British punk of the Sex Pistols variety, but writer Dan Slott overriding the decision to establish him as an all-CBGB New Yorker. In any case, this Hobie won the affection of fans by siding with the people against their corporate oppressors, leading the downtrodden masses against the establishment, and breaking his guitar over the head of the U.S. president.
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