Rent Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

A beautifully designed meta homage to the Spider-Man comics - Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse review by Christopher Chiu-Tabet

It feels like many movies crammed into one, all jostling for your attention: it is at once the heartfelt origin story of Miles Morales’s Spider-Man, a crazy kaleidoscope of cartoon art styles, and a comedic meta-commentary on how many Spider-Man movies we’ve had. It somehow manages to work, mostly. Although the film borrows its title from Dan Slott and Olivier Coipel’s 2014 crossover event ‘Spider-Verse,’ it proves to be a surprisingly faithful adaptation of Brian Michael Bendis and Sara Pichelli’s original “Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man” run. Nicolas Cage is the most fun as the hard-boiled, melodramatic Spider-Man Noir. The stylistic experiment doesn’t fully pay off, for example, the depth-of-field can strain your eyes if you aren’t focusing on the same thing as the camera wants you to, and certain shots look more like CG than cel animation, which can be distracting. The brief flickers of simpler artwork to accentuate certain action-packed moments also does feel rather on-the-nose. But overall, the film’s worth watching alone to see, and forgive the cliche, a comic book come alive.

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Believe or not I liked having more super-heroes in this film. - Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse review by Strovey

Hoorah, a one-off Marvel super-hero story that does not mesh into other stories or heroes and is entirely stand alone. What a breath of fresh air. How do you make a Marvel super-hero story and particularly a popular hero, Spider Man, who has had so many incarnations I think I might be up for the role soon, fresh? The makers of this movie, and there's a roster's worth of names, came up with an idea, whilst not original, certainly boosted the old tropes and made fun, in a loving way, of the whole Marvel Universe whilst creating an interesting and to point super-hero story.

What's more we're in a world of animation here and yet an old gimmer like me felt more connected to Miles, his parents and the jaded Peter B. Parker with his fat gut and pizza guzzling ways. How can animation hold my interest and make me genuinely laugh more than skilled on-screen actors and action?

The main protagonist Miles is the glue that holds the story together, more like a kid in a difficult situation than any host of live-action stories on the same tack. More believable, more fun, and more downright relatable. Aside from the animation and voice acting, it must be the writing, the feel for how a young lad might possibly react in these out-of-the-world and in-the-real-world situations.

The set up before the real story begins is engaging and enjoyable and drags you into Miles and his parents situation and once we get to the larger-than-life King Pin, voiced by Liev Shreiber believe it or not, and the funny but no irritating Peter Parker and the Peter B. Parker this show is on the road. Every character is well-fleshed and makes sense in their own ways without their own world and it was a blast from beginning to the very funny end.

The artwork and animation are superb and cleverly harks back to the comic-book origins and seamlessly mixes different styles to great effect.

Certainly, this movie came along at the right time for me, not a comic-book fan or particular big fan of Marvel, its strength was it dragged me in, and I enjoyed the characters and story. Maybe this alienated it from real fans of these films, but I cannot see it. If you like comic-books how could you not like this film? The voice acting is perfectly suited to each character, believable and fun, and not annoying as I can find these types.

So, there you go, a Marvel movie about a superhero, with fighting and explosions, that I enjoyed. I recommend Spider Man: Into Multi-Verse it is how comic-book films should be made.

Good reimagining. - Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse review by HM

Reviews ecstatic, so didn't believe it would be all that good (see reviews of Black Panther; adored by critics but the usual CGI mash-up and slated by members of the public). Actually it is well paced, imaginative, funny and action packed with purpose rather than for its own sake. Great entertainment. Enjoy (you will).

What a delight! - Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse review by CB

Very funny (I was crying with laughter at one point when I saw it at the cinema), original, plenty of surprises, and it has a big heart . I enjoyed the second viewing almost as much as the first at the cinema.

A difficult watch - Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse review by CP Customer

My brain couldn’t deal with this film. I lasted 20 minutes and then I just couldn’t ignore the headache. The animation style and analglyph type backgrounds made it impossible to watch. That combined with the 12.5 frames per second animation killed it for me. Shame as the story looked interesting.