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One thing I think ACROSS gets really gets right is the teen longing. But even for a guy who jumps off buildings all day that’s a scary leap to take. They just worry he’s a fuck up because he keeps showing up late to everything and giving flimsy excuses for it, things that could be cleared up by telling them the truth. Even in his crime-fighting life, taking on a fake deep voice when talking to his cop dad on the job, the relationship seems to be improving a little bit. They do understand that he’s brilliant, and that his grades are great by anyone else’s standards. That’s one reason there’s tension about whether Miles should risk coming out as Spider-Man to his parents, Jeff (Brian Tyree Henry, CHILD’S PLAY remake) and Rio (Luna Lauren Velez, THE FIRST PURGE). When her secret comes out under duress it goes so poorly that she takes an opportunity to abandon their reality. Gwen’s have to do with her dad (Shea Whigham, SICARIO: DAY OF THE SOLDADO) being the police captain chasing Spider-Woman, blaming her for the death of their universe’s Peter Parker (Jack Quaid, LOGAN LUCKY), a misunderstanding they can’t clear up because she hides her true self from him. They met when a super-collider brought Gwen and people from various other realities into Miles’s, but now they’re apart, trying to get through life as their reality’s Spider-Person.Įach have normal issues with their parents, exacerbated by their secret super hero lives. As in, different dimensions, timelines, worlds, whatever. You may remember that our main characters Miles Morales/Spider-Man (Shameik Moore, Raekwon on Wu-Tang: An American Saga), and Gwen Stacy/Spider-Woman (Hailee Steinfeld, 3 DAYS TO KILL) exist in different realities. This one works particularly well on the level of a teen movie.

They’ve also given us characters to really care about as they live their lives in that perfect Spider-Man intersection between regular every day problems and universe-shattering super shit. Honestly the gimmicks and the eye candy would be enough to make this a classic, but they’re not the only reason these movies have become a phenomenon. Miles gives me the same “it’s weird to see him taller” feeling as real kids I’ve seen grow up, and the series’ already astonishing artistry has also experienced a growth spurt. I’m happy to say that ACROSS is a worthy sequel that finds a smart way to build on the first film’s clever multiverse premise and push its revolutionary visual style into the stratosphere.

SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE is the first sequel to SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE, the brilliant 2018 movie I still believe is a watershed moment for computer animated features* as well as super hero cinema.

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