Review 793: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is huge surprising delight; a pleasure to look at and even more fulfilling as a story. I came to mock and stayed to smile. I must confess that the idea of a multiverse animated Spider-Man film sounded like a recipe for disaster On one level, yes this is franchise filmmaking first and foremost. But I was also surprised at the amount of care and nuance that went into this film. The script, co-written by producer Phil Lord and co-director Rodney Rothman has a surprising amount of thematic depth to it The Spider-Man stories, for my money, are the ones that involve our young hero having an enormous responsibility thrust upon them almost out of nowhere and they then need to decide what person they want to be. And that's pretty much the emotional through line of our hero Miles Morales. Based on the Miles Morales version of Spider-Man by Brian Michael Bendis & Sara What's immediately striking about Into the Spider-Verse i...
