Caught in a Ham

An amusing four-minute short, which serves as a prequel to 'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse'.

John Mulaney returns to voice the titular character, to good effect - there are a couple of nice gags in there. Animation is sweet, too. It's obviously not necessary, but 'Spider-Ham: Caught in a Ham' is good nevertheless.

Peter(Mulaney, actually sounding like he belongs in this sort of thing) is swinging through the city, eating a hot dog(just... try not to think about it), when he's grabbed by a villain, and threatened with a laser...

This is featured on the DVD for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. It's basically a Looney Tunes cartoon starring Spider-Ham, which makes perfect sense, considering the titular character here. You'll recognise many traits of those, if you're familiar with them. Lots of in-jokes, puns, meta stuff, etc. They even imitate the simple style of animation from those. It's so short, and moves so fast, always changing exactly what's going on, that you don't have time to get frustrated with the visual quality. That was my experience, anyway. The voice acting is quite good. I'd be happy to watch something like this that was substantially longer.

Other than the joke about the contents of the food Porker eats, there is nothing objectionable in this. The violence is silly, not upsetting. I recommend this to any fan of the movie itself. 7/10.

This animated short, released as part of the DVD release of "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" (2018), is a fun little treat that definitely manages to stage the absurd and cabaret Spider-Ham character better, more true to the original and with more stylistic confidence than the overly-praised film, for instance, whose name can be found on the DVD cover. For a four-minute short, the story is adequate, if not loaded with new ideas. By now, viewers know enough about breaking the fourth wall, and the wacky nature of what is shown can be found in almost every mediocre cartoon by now; but also in a lot of good ones. "Spider-Ham: Caught in a Ham" is at the lower end of the good cartoons with this gimmick. The voice acting, already known from the feature film to which this cartoon is a tie-in, is solid, though not outstanding. All in all, 4 minutes that you can definitely have a look at once. Time is not wasted with this one.

I feel like Spider-Ham Caught in a Ham is a good spin on Looney Toons. I find it as a good addition to Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse. It focuses on Spider-Ham in his universe right before he got brought into Miles's universe (Earth 1610). It is meant to be funny and it delivered. I feel like there should be a show about Spider-Ham. He's so like a Looney Tunes character and should have a show like Looney Tunes. The show can show his origin more in detail. That's at least my opinion and can give an idea to the producers of the Spider-Man related content at Sony if they're reading this. I feel like this Short's alright and hope there will be more like this to come out of the Spider-Verse franchise.

"Caught in a Ham" is a special feature included with the DVDs for "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse". The film is only 4 minutes long but is well worth seeing. It's because for the non-comicbook fan watching "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" they've never been exposed to Peter Porker, also known as Spider-Ham. He's only in the film a bit here and there...and the short allows you to see the sort of world this Looney Tunes-like character lives in and where he's a hero. Overall, funny, well made and a must see if you get the DVD for the feature film.