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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

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Dizzying animation in which numerous Spider-Man incarnations from different dimensions team up to defeat villain Kingpin.

CertificatePG

Duration117 mins

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  • Frankie, 11
  • 72 reviews

A Well Written Story but Not a Great Animation

3 stars

08 May 2019

A Well Written Story but Not a Great Animation-

I never really liked Sony Animations and it's a well-known fact that they are one of the worst animation companies with movies like The Hotel Transylvania Trilogy, Peter Rabbit and The Emoji Movie and these are just a few of the not so great animations (Especially the Emoji Movie) but they do have some great ones as well like Open Season, The Angry Birds Movie, Arthur Christmas. These are pretty good but in the middle, you would have Spiderman: Into the Spider-Verse. Spider-Verse it has a good bit of its good parts and bad. It's not terrible but it isn't great. I feel that people overreacted when it came out but that is just exactly what happened to other Spiderman films, I thought the Amazing Spider-Man 2 was good first time watching it but it turned out it wasn't after a while and so far when Disney incorporate Spiderman it is actually pretty good, better than Sony's Spidermen movies, you can really compare and contrast these two mega-companies make Spiderman as Spiderman is in a web twisting state at the moment by having rights from both Sony and Disney. So when Spiderman Homecoming released in July 2017, Sony made an answer and that was Spiderverse.

Spider-Verse's plot, story and characters were very well written, I would even say the most well-written animation is Spider-Verse, but what ruined it was the animation style and soundtrack. Anyway, focus on how well written the characters are you have Miles Morales, this misunderstood teenager on an adventure to become Spiderman and defeat King Pen. Okay maybe the other Spider people were lazily written but they didn't get much screen-time. The story was a great idea as it sort of points out how many spidermen varients there are the old comics. There even was a Spider-Verse Comic from 2014 and Sony took that and made an animation styling it like a comic.

Here is Spider-Verse's first problem, the animation is like a comic theme but really a comic style is meant for reading and still pictures. Imagine having a comic flashing in your eyes in a quick matter, it honestly gives me a headache and it really tried to correct how the 60s Batman show had the onomatopoeia ad made it better which I liked. If the animation style wasn't comic themed I think I would like Spider-Verse more.

Here is another problem with Spider-Verse, the soundtrack. I like the songs but the problem is the artists, it is the 21st Century and it is so easy for children to access anything with technology and they will search up the songs and find XXXTentation and Post Malone. This is a precise example of why not to have rappers do your soundtrack as these two often swear in songs, as rappers do but little children will then listen to their music and it isn't really appropriate for them so it was a risky move as it sort of encouraged listening two these rappers.

That seems like all the things that stand out in Spiderman: Into the Spider-Verse it is all around great but not entirely amazing if there is one last thing I would like to talk about is, Who uses rotten tomatoes to promote a film? Seriously most people who watch this probably don't even know what rotten tomatoes is. Maybe just say different newspapers or IMDb.

Miles Morales is a teenager who is forced against what he doesn't want and like all spidermen got bit by a radioactive spider, then stumbled across Peter Parker fighting Green Goblin in what seems to be in the room of an interdimensional portal which leads Miles in an adventure to becoming Spiderman...

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