Friday, December 21, 2018

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse

An animated version of Spiderman and parallel universes. A young kid wants to be Spiderman, and looks up to his uncle who is a street smart adult who pays attention to him in all the right ways (his father is the straight arrow cop who never cuts corners). Kingpin and Doc Oc are the adversaries, and are working on building a portal to parallel universes so Kingpin can see his family again (even though they would not be "his" per se). This is a bit of a Fringe storyline. Anyway, things go wrong, and Spider-men are pulled to this universe through a broken portal. They must all work together to get them home before it's too late. The story is strong and quite clever, and the different Spider-men are fantastic characters. And super fun that this is done in animation, since I think a live action version would have been horrible. Nice job Marvel.
4 stars (out of 5)

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