Hello Everyone, and I finally watched Into The Spider-Verse the other day and Man! Was It So Frigging Great!!!!!! Like Absolutely Amazing, Spectacular And Heartfelt! Okay, so, here are my thoughts.
The animation in this film is absolutely brilliantly made! Mixing and blending in the styles of 2D and 3D animation. Every blend of style feels just like a comic book come to life feeling attached in some areas. The action sequences blend the style and animation really. Everything feels exciting and exhilirating from beginning to end. They also have a very nice hip-hop feel to it considering that the film centers around Miles Morales a young half black half Latino kid from Brooklyn and has established to be a Creator in arts and music.
The story is centered around Miles. And while the story does center around him, their would also be some description of his character considering that this new take is completely separate from Bendis' usual take. And Man! Did these guys do a Really good jb of giving Miles this brand new take. Miles in this film is like I said a young half black half Latino kid from Brooklyn. And this film does a great job of making him feel more like that with his smooth taste in fine arts and music, being cool and smooth to the people he meets, speaking great in spanish, and has a need to find his true life in the world as he tries to quit school and wants to do what he wants like his uncle Aaron. The film does a great job of telling the experience of a young African and Latino kid from Brooklyn in his place in the world. The film also does a brilliant job of conveying Miles' development and motivation of Spider-Man after having the guilt of costing his Peter his own life and trying very hard to live up to his mantle and completing his duty. The film also reflects heavily on his growth and his experience of how he got his powers like Peter has in his early days reflecting his stage of becoming the hero. The film does do a brilliant and impactful job of how anyone could wear the mask and be Spider-Man. And Lord and Miller have done a brilliant job of conveying that and telling the origin and characterization of Miles better than anything Bendis has ever put out since his debut in the 616 universe.
And now, with the story of Miles, you have to do the character of Peter justice no matter who's film it is, you have to do the character justice. And thankfully they've really done that. Both versions anyway. One blonde Peter played by Chris Pine and one older brown haired Peter played by Jake Johnson. The two versions are more older and experienced Spider-Men in terms of strength, speed, cunningness, and intelligence as well as heroism and nobility. The Peter in Miles' world is witty, clever, smart, intelligent, heroic, and mature as well as Noble. He shares some heartfelt scenes with Miles when he first meet him. Relating to how he Discovers his powers as well as promising him to teach him how to use them well. He also tells Miles to promise to stop the Kingpin and help save New York before he dies.
And now we have the Peter played by Jake Johnson who like Miles' Peter is witty, smart,intelligent, yet older, tired, wasted, and broken yet responsible and heroic throughout as well as experienced. In his world everything was going good for him as he is married and tried to get his life together. Though, he does have some hard life as him being Spider-Man got a little more difficult, he tried hard to get some money like start his own business,his Aunt May died, and yes, he And MJ did break up because
MJ wanted kids. But, Peter couldn't handle that. Though, most have said that Peter did that because his life as Spider-Man was getting in the way of that and made his life difficult.
Anyway, Peter meets Miles and he tries to talk to him before he zapped him. Miles meets Peter and tries to convince him to help him. But, Peter instead tries to act selfishly and tries to go him letting Miles handle things by himself. But, Miles guilts trips him into letting him tag along. Throughout the film, Peter slowly recovers as he feels like he could relate to Miles with his sense of duty and responsibility and when he meets Miles' Aunt May and Mary Jane as well as a few Spider-People. And now thanks to his time with Miles, he now has the courage to start things over with Mary Jane. Lord and Miller did a brilliant job of bringing the character to justice as well as Chris Pine and Jake Johnson for bringing the character to life and doing him Justice.
Gwen Stacy much like her Spider-Gwen counterpart is a drummer, has a father who's a cop, and a Peter who was the Lizard and died on her arms. And thanks to that, Gwen has become more distant to make sure no one gets to be harmed. Though, he life changed when she met Miles and another Peter. And throughout the film she began to feel alot closer to them. And now thanks to them, she has finally turned her life around becoming more sociable and comfortable to others.
Not much can be said about the other Spider-People since they only have such limited roles. But, they were really nice to see and fun to have as expected. Plus they have a very nice style to them as well as their performances from Nic Cage, Kimiko Glenn, and John Mulaney.
The Kingpin is the main villain of this film. And his role in this film has been very compelling as his motivation is tied into this. And Liev Schriber has done a great job of conveying the character in his role.
Though, there are a few gripes that I have with this film and that a few characters didn't have enough screentime that they deserve such as Mary Jane and Tombstone as well as Goblin. Though, Mary Jane does have an interesting role in the series as
There is a possibility as Miles' MJ could be pregnant as we haven't seen her throughout the film as she could've possibly stayed home due to the press. And there was a joke that she have some craving for bread which could be a symptom of her pregnancy. With that, we could see May Day Parker in Miles' world and Annie May Parker in the older Peter's world.
Another issue I have is that
Miles and Gwen could possibly be a couple. While their chemistry is sweet in this film. I'm just not a fan of the idea. Seems pointless. I'd rather Miles have his own girl. Seems like a pointless idea to have one from another world especially a version of your mentor's former girl. I don't see a point in this. Not to sound hard anyway.
Anyway, this is a brilliantly made film. Possibly one of the best comic book films ever made, the best Spidey film ever made, and one of the best films of 2018. I Highly Recommend you guys go check out this film!!!!!!
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