TOarrives at the cinema today Spider-Man Across the Spider Versethe sequel to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Oscar winner 2019 for best animated film. Spider-man’s new adventure is a real feast for the eyes. An amusement park on the big screen that will not disappoint fans of Marvel comics, Japanese manga and the most advanced and creative animation techniques.
Ben Reilly as the Red Spider, one of Peter Parker’s clones (credit: Eagle Pictures)
The plot of Spider-Man Across the Spider Verse
We are in New York, a wonderful location “where everything is possible” that seems to have been made to provide a grip on the cobwebs and become the scene of superhero stunts. Here Gwen Stacy goes crazy, the spider woman great friend (or maybe something more) of Miles Moralesthe young Afro-Puerto Rican – or it would be simpler to say American – ready to transform himself into the Spider-man friend of the inhabitants of Brooklyn.
Despite being superheroes, the two are still teenagers struggling with family problems. Miles is grown up and ready to go to college, but he feels that his parents, while they love him, don’t believe in him enough. Gwen, on the other hand, has to leave her house, because the policeman dad suspects that she killed her old friend Peter and is ready to report her.
Gwen takes a space-time leap and joins a team of superheroes. It will also bring Miles into the multiverse. Here the two will meet the “spider society” a large group of “spiders”. Among these stand out some unforgettable characters. Each of them corresponds to an artistic register.
All Spider-man of the multiverse
Pavitr Prabhakar (Spider Man India) lives in Mumbattan (midway between Mumbai and Manhattan), a mix of ancient and modern with colorful glass and steel skyscrapers decorated like ancient stone temples.
Spider-Punk is the anarchist spider-man in the movie “Spider man-Across the spider verse” (credit: Eagle Pictures).
Miguel O’Hara And a more serious and strong-willed Spider-man, depicted in dark colors, who comes from a New York of the future controlled by artificial intelligence. spider punk, anarchist superhero, he moves in an environment reminiscent of works of art, comics and magazines from England in the seventies. There are those who bet that viewers will like it a lot. Notable too Jessica Drewthe Spider-Woman of Earth 332 who rides a motorcycle and fights bad guys despite being heavily pregnant.
Jessica Drew, the pregnant spider woman who fights alongside Miles (credit: Eagle Pictures).
Spiderman’s new enemies
Among the enemies of Spider-Miles is The Maquis: is Dr. Jonathan Ohnn, is a scientist who used dark matter to create portals to other worlds. He can create and open interdimensional portals or smaller channels to quickly travel long distances and commit crimes. The Blur is literally a character “full of black holes” that he tries to fill throughout the film.
Gwen Stacy and Miles Morales, more than friends in a scene from the film (credit: Eagles Pictures).
In the Spider-Verse, however, Miles is not at ease and clashes with the majority of the other “spiders” who intend not to intervene on reality, changing the past. He wants to do it, to save the people he loves most and to achieve his goal he is ready to fight and risk his life. How to say that everyone can write their own story. Even if we have many things in common, everyone can and must still find their way and move forward in their own way.
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A large group of Spider-Man in the Spider-Verse (credit: Eagle Pictures).
Spider-Man Across the Spider Verse: the review
Spider-Man Across the Spider Verse is directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson. The screenplay, based on Marvel comics, is by Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and David Callaham. The long-awaited film keeps its promises: from a stylistic point of view, in the drawings and in the animation it flies to a very high level. Characters and settings correspond to different styles and we jump from a black and white scenography to a super-colored Eighties setting, from a dark to a cartoonish trait. At one point, you dive into a Lichtenstein-style world, and then splash into the Lego universe.
Miles Morales and Gwen Stacy battle The Blur (credit: Eagle Pictures)
The story is a bit complicated (but American cinema has accustomed us to the metaverse, as demonstrated by the Oscars a Everything Everywhere All at Once). A few laughs gives her (but she expected more): one of the funniest scenes is set at Guggenheim Museumwhere our superheroes fight against a bird monster that speaks Renaissance Italian and that resembles Leonardo’s flying machine, determined to destroy the museum.
There are several funny jokes. However, there is some rhetorical and somewhat obvious dialogue on the importance of affection and the family. Finally, perhaps a few scissors in the fights would not have hurt the film, which runs more than two and a quarter hours. If a teenager or a fan of comics will enjoy the show, a child under 10-12 years old will hardly remain glued to his seat. And perhaps even those who don’t particularly like action films will be tempted to give up the cinema, despite the indisputable wonder aroused by the drawings. The film is produced by Sony Pictures and distributed in Italy by Eagle Pictures.
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