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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse movie review: A superbly made frantically head spinning adventure, destined for major honours in animation, including The Oscars
What: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: This mainstream animation feature earns rare respect. A never before experienced adrenalin rush, emotion, action, nostalgia, stunning imaginary and unpredictability in an animation movie. This is destined for top honours in animation category. Directors - Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson had given us ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ in animation.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse movie synopsis
Brooklyn teen Miles Morales (voiced by Shameik Moore) parents (Brian Tyree Henry and Luna Lauren Velez) want their kid to follow the right path.
Miles Morales is missing his spider friends. And in another universe Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfeld) is struggling to come out from the loss of her best friend Peter Parker (Jake Johnson).
Miles Morales encounters a weird Dalmatian type spotted villain The Spot aka Jonathan Ohnn (Jason Schwartzman) - a scientist whose skin is now covered in interdimensional portals who has a score to fix with the Spider – Man.
Miles Morales and Gwen are after The Spot and the chase enters the multiverse and they reach the Spider-Society, run by Miguel O’Hara (voiced by Oscar Isaac).
The Spider-Society is filled with plenty of surprises for the hard core and audience in general. Old time, artistic and funny variants from the comic’s past, games, comics etc come together.
And we come to know about unimaginable secrets and terrifically mind-blowing action, animation laced with emotions in this picture.
“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” was a benchmark, the extremely energetic 2018 animated picture by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman that truly deserved the Oscar honours.
It becomes extremely difficult to match a recent (4-year-old) cult but kudos to the directors - Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson, they have proved that sequels can be better than the original.
The pop art magic, the ode to old school, expertise in storytelling, the true understanding of what a spider fan, a marvel fan, an animation fan, and super hero film buff along with the audience in general want.
And of course, for the Indian audience which has tremendous fan base – voiced by cricket heartthrob Shubham Gill in Hindi and Punjabi while the English version is voiced by the Karan Soni the crowd pleasing Pavitr Prabhakar / Spider-Man India is a sure shot winner.
Pavitr Prabhakar - An Indian version of Spider-Man from an alternate universe, inhabiting in Mumbattan (a combo of Mumbai and Manhattan) who surprisingly is not bitten by Spider, Pavitr Prabhakar has got his powers through magic!!…
The long hair Spider-Man India does resemble Indian Hindu God Lord Hanuman (now American super heroes like Superman - inspired from Lord Hanuman, Thor (Bheem) etc) remains one of the most interesting debates.
Other surprises like - The super powerful villain The Spot, an all-white figure with black-hole ink blots on his body that turn out to be portals to the multiverse.
I should stop now and without revealing anything further that may spoil your ‘future’ fun, I will only say that Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse carries tremendous repeat values for fans.
And one more important thing in general - You don’t necessarily need to see Spider Man : Into the Spider-Verse to be able to enjoy Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is destined to be the best animated picture or say animated cinema of the year and a lesson on how sequels can be better than the original, no matter if the original is a cult.
A child born from life & fed by cinema. A filmi keeda from child & a film journalist for the last fifteen years. a father, seeker, foodie who loves crooning bollywood melodies twitter.com/cineblues More By vishal verma