Spider-Man: A Través Del Spider-Verso

Let me just say that the first hour of this film had me hooked and I just knew this film surpass it's predecessor in terms of the story & entertainment. Around the 2 hour mark I started wondering when or if there would be a climax? Various scenes felt like they were dragging on for way too long. We really didn't need all the scenes of Peter B. Parker and his child. For me personally I felt like there was no build up or anticipation due to how long certain scenes played out. Then the film ended on a cliffhanger and then I understood, this film is a middle movie, a gateway between the first film and the next film and unfortunately it showed. They didn't have a definitive ending for this film which is fine but at some point the scenes just felt like filler. I believe it is still a movie worth seeing, however, it falls short of the first movie in terms of keeping my attention.

This movie is a straight-up masterpiece. I'm not even gonna pretend to be cool about it - Across the Spider-Verse blew my damn mind. It takes everything the first film did (which was already leagues above most superhero stuff) and just cranks it up to eleven. Miles Morales is back, older, smarter, but still fumbling through what it means to be his version of Spider-Man. And this time, he's not just hopping through dimensions - he's crashing through them, getting tangled up in a whole society of Spider-People who think they know how the story's supposed to go. And the animation? Holy hell. It's like each frame was hand-painted by a different art god. Every universe has its own style - there's one that looks like a sketchbook mid-meltdown, another like it was watercolor-dreamed into existence. It's overwhelming in the best way, like walking through a museum during an earthquake. But here's the kicker- it's not just eye candy. The emotional core is solid. Gwen's arc hit me harder than I expected, and Miles? That kid's going through it. There's this tension running underneath the whole thing - about identity, about fate, about not letting other people tell you what you can't be - and it's so well done it hurts a little. In a good way. Now, fair warning: it ends on a cliffhanger. And not a gentle one. I mean hang-your-mouth-open kind of cliffhanger. But? I didn't mind. It felt like the second movement in a symphony - the part where everything swells and breaks and leaves you breathless waiting for the final note. Bottom line? It's a visual knockout, sharp, and storytelling-wise, one of the best Spider-Man films ever made. I'm giving it a solid 9.5/10. The only downside is we have to wait for the next one.

It just excels in every category! Peak cinema right there. I can't imagine the amount of work that went into this movie, every aspect of it just blew me away.

Words cannot accurately describe this experience so I'm not even gonna try. I can't remember the last time I was so hooked for more than 2 hours in a cinema. So much emotion, beauty and cool-ness!

It's time for everyone to appreciate animation as a veritable film genre and give it the recognition it deserves. Across the Spider-Verse perfectly shows that you just can't do in a live-action movie what you can do with animation. I 100% think that the richness of emotions this masterpiece conveys was greatly benefited by the animation and its mesmerizing style. Just see it and you'll agree!

I loved into the spiderverse, it had great animation, great characters, great plot development and great music. There is simply no way across the spiderverse is better. By the end of this it felt like they were dragging it out and I had lost interest quite some time previously. The animation is good but sometimes less is more, and there was less differentiation between the styles, I don't think bill sienkiewicz was involved in this one. I remember my emotions building in the first one, peaking when what's up danger kicked in in the soundtrack, but this got into some schlocky emotional teen drama territory that made me yawn. I also felt it was a bit cynical to split it in two, I'm sure the full story could have been told in one movie which would have upped the quality of the animation too. Then there was the sense of universal danger overload that this and other stories revert to to ramp up the drama; whether a universe or every parallel universe and it's uncle is at stake, who cares, trying to make it bigger than before doesn't increase drama, that comes from character and plot development, yeah, like it did in the first one. It needed more jokes too, nowhere near as funny as the last time.

If it wasn't already obvious in the first film, it's now officially clear as day that the people behind the Spider-Verse franchise (including writers/producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who are absolute creative godsends to the once magnificent place known as Hollywood) understand EXACTLY what they're working with.

Don't let the marketing fool you: this film has GUTS. It's easily one of the heaviest PG-rated films I've ever seen. Payoffs and character revelations that were only hinted at in the first film are carefully, deliberately unraveled and come around beautifully. It made me think about my own life and what I mean to the people I care about in ways I never expected. The fan-service is BATTY too, and yet somehow it's never too much.

I wish every movie was as good as this---but then again if the world was like that this wouldn't feel as special. So I'll just stick to being IMMENSELY grateful that it exists in this universe.

This is no ordinary sequel. It's art of the highest form.