Director: Joaquim Dos Santos / Kemp Powers / Justin Thompson
Writers: Phil Lord / Christopher Miller / Dave Callaham
Starring: Shameik Moore / Hailee Steinfeld / Oscar Isaac / Jake Johnson / Issa Rae / more...
Genre: Comedy / Action / Sci-Fi / Animation / Fantasy / Adventure
Country/Region: United States
Language: English
Release Date: 2023-06-02 (USA/China) / 2023-05-31 (France)
Runtime: 140 minutes
Also Known As: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Part Two / Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2 / Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse (Part One)
IMDb: tt9362722
"Are you ready, Spider-Man fans?" Billions of digital special effects images are coming at you. Fasten your seatbelt and get ready for this dazzling, massive, and fast-paced visual feast.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023), which won the 2018 Oscar, has become a distant memory. In Brooklyn, the protagonist Miles Morales is a high school student who becomes Spider-Man after being bitten by a spider. He joins forces with others to fight evil forces. Miles forms a mentorship with Peter B. Parker (Jake Johnson) and becomes friends and falls in love with Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfeld), also known as Spider-Gwen. The screenplay by Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman presents a challenging storyline, while the directing skills of Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman make the whole story easy to understand.
The production team of the new film has undergone changes. The director and writers have changed, making the film significantly different from its predecessor in terms of dialogue, characters, and plot. The dialogue has become more modern, sounding like street kids discussing life, parental misunderstandings, and their conflicting feelings towards others. There are many minor characters in the film, some of the plot branches are very interesting, while others are not as appealing. Nevertheless, the visuals in the film are stunning and almost all worth watching.
The villain character, The Spot (played by Jason Schwartzman), blames Miles for his physical deformity and vows to take everything from him. Spider-Man's mission is clear, to stop him. However, other Spider-People from the Spider-Verse bring chaos. Led by Miguel O'Hara (played by Oscar Isaac), they want to take a different approach to save the multiverse. They have intense conflicts, but the disagreements among the self-centered superheroes hinder the completion of their mission. Miles declares, "Everyone tells me how my story should go. But I don't want to do what others want, I want to do my own thing!"
The visuals in the film are amazing and captivating. The colors are vibrant, resembling pop art paintings, blending old-fashioned illustrations with futuristic animation effects. The action scenes are also thrilling, with people swinging on spider webs, throwing punches and kicks, leaving a deep impression on the audience. The subtitles are large, like in a comic book, allowing the audience to immerse themselves more in the story. The author jokingly says that it seems like it took drugs or the help of a psychiatrist to create this, but overall, this text makes people feel "awesome!" It provides a dazzling and breathtaking sensory experience.
The 2-hour and 20-minute film is like a weird but exciting MTV music video. The colors, costumes, and settings are outstanding, leaving people in awe. The visual, digital, audio, and animation effects on the screen constantly stimulate the senses, making it irresistible. When the uplifting emotions and energetic bass and soaring strings come, the happiest soul, funk, and rock songs burst out, as if jumping out of the Spotify charts. These elements come together to give the audience a stunning multi-sensory experience.
The film not only showcases exaggerated and self-indulgent grand scenes but also explores deep emotions. These emotional expressions are precious, like calm oases that give the audience a moment of tranquility amidst the storm of visual impact in the film. The first 40 minutes of the setup allow the audience to experience the storm of fantasy and illusions, but as the film progresses, young viewers may become more focused than adult viewers, who may become exhausted.
The entire cast conveys more drama through their voices, intonations, and inflections than what actors can achieve in live performances. The new additions to the cast include Issa Rae, Daniel Kaluuya, Karan Soni, Jorma Taccone, and Amanda Stenberg, bringing more vivid elements to this work.
It can be exaggeratedly said that this most advanced animation is as genius as the genre itself. But for children, teenagers, and people in their twenties who grew up with MTV, comics, and TikTok, this is not an exaggeration. This is their truth. This is their holy grail. This is their generation's view of what a superhero fable should be. Billions of images are thrown at their eyes until they are dizzy and ecstatic.
To say that this most advanced animation technology is the most outstanding in the genre may be a bit exaggerated. But for children, teenagers, and people in their twenties who grew up with MTV, comics, and TikTok, this is not an exaggeration. This is their reality, this is their holy grail. It is their generation's view of what a superhero fable should be like. Dazzling images are thrown at their eyes until they are disoriented and intoxicated.
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