Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
★★★★
This review may contain spoilers.
this movie is great, such a vibrant work of art, it really takes the Spider-Man mythos and advances your thinking of it, it takes anyone can be under the mask and explores it fully by putting people who aren't peter parker under the mask and exploring what makes there Spider-Man unique, while contemplating what makes each Spider-Man. Spider-Man. lol can I say Spider-Man anymore? love this movie but he second one knocks it out of the park.
The Animation is so good, like we all know but holy cow Lord and Miller really took things up a notch with this one, turning this movie into a motion comic but not like the ones on YouTube, freeze frames with colorful imagery, title graphics and action lines, god dang this looks beautiful sincere hats off to the animators and character designs and set designers who made this film the way it looks, while the second expands the animation this one started it all and you can try that they were really stepping out of there comfort zone because this thing could have flopped hard in a different multiverse.
the soundtrack is another highlight for me, I like the mix between score and licensed music, the only song I didn't care for was Scared of the dark, but it's my fault because man can I only hear YMS sing that part of the song every time I hear about the song, my favorite licensed track is Memories, the way it's used here is so great, I only wish we heard a bit more lyrics, but the score. omg the score, the prowler theme, miles theme, peter's theme they all come together in this beautiful moment and orchestra piece. top notch composing done here really liked it.
notes below (slight spoilers for Spider-Man 1, Spider-Man: No Way Home, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Across The Spider-Verse.)
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- the best opening credits scrawl I think ever at least looking at all these titles isn't boring.
- I have always seen this movie as exploring what with great power comes great responsibility means, and the second film I feel explores what miles Keep Moving Forward means.
- the animation is so expressive, which has been said to death.
- "Yeah that was me" See I think that Miles already knows with great power comes great responsibility.
- I love the way the windows distort everyone it's nice.
- I think it's important to note that she never tells him that his title needs to be great expectations but he is the one that chooses that title.
- I like that the comic text started to pop up after he got bit, very cool.
- I like the effects on Miles's voice when he is talking to himself.
- I like that comics segment the film.
- ooo I like the dots that appear on the flashlight.
- this is kind of the defining moment for Miles, the save the idealization of this Spiderman every spiderman that he meets after this one doesn't match his preconceived understanding of Spiderman.
- god the colors in this film are so good.
- it's the first death that Spiderman encounters that makes him who he becomes.
- I like these freeze frame/snap shots, the colors, and lighting are so expressive.
- the snowfall is amazing.
- Octavius reveal is so great.
- I love when a scene has a framing device using the pen click here is great.
- there is something so tragic about May saying that he looks tired, tears.
- I like that they can't realize the other is a spider person until they use there spider sense lol.
- I think "Memories" was a great track choice for the low point.
- I really like the tone for the film, I think it's kind of hard to find a tone between serious and comedy for children's films but this movie seems to have nailed it, there is a inherent comedy to some of the situations but when it gets serious it gets serious.
- also the prowler theme is so horrifying but more than disorienting, the theme literally feels like it's interrupting everything.
- I like the fluidity of this second prowler chase, it feels quicker more chaotic and crazy.
- this fight in the house is great, how everyone is bouncing around is great, also I think the lens is wider, it feels fish eye like.
- the significance of Miles hearing "Your On Your Way, Just Keep Going" radiates through the second film, the thing that makes Miles different from the rest is this sentence, he was told to just keep going while most of the other spider-people were told "with great power" this discussion becomes crucial to the second film as the first tries to explore that anyone can be Spider-Man -- while the second film explores anyone can be under that mask.
- let's expand on this just a tad, try to explore canon events in a sense -- in Spider-Man 1, peter has the conversation with uncle ben, hears with great power comes great responsibility and then dies trying to live by that principle, there are no last words that ben get's to say for all intense purpose those are ben's last words, those words shape him for sure and make him become the man he becomes but it's aunt may's talk with him while he is in his room that solidifies what kind of Spider-Man he becomes right affirming Uncle Ben's quote and so much more, Andrew Garfield's Spider-Man looses Uncle Ben, hears the same quote, kind of gets the same talk from May that Maguire Spider-Man gets and then when he meets Holland's Peter says he lost Gwen as his defining moment? why is that? that is something that has perplexed me since it came out, like Gwen's death clearly has an impact on him so great that when mentioning he lost someone of great importance he says Gwen and not Ben to holland who just lost his Ben equivalent like the answer probably comes down to they didn't want to have both spider-men say we lost ben so that we didn't get confused or something but it is a genuinely interesting question why does Garfield say Gwen and Maguire say Ben and let's take it a bit further tie this back to spider-verse a bit so I can justify this long note, why does Holland say he lost May when at the end of No Way Home he looses MJ, like he looses May for good and MJ to some extent for good, he has to grieve her because if he goes back to her it could open this whole can of worms again, --- so we apply this to miles, in this film miles looses his Uncle Aaron and hears the words Just Keep Going these are Aaron's last words and they shape miles for sure defining him as a Spider-Man to keep moving forward in a sense but it's his father's words of I Just See This Spark In You and his mom's our family doesn't run from things miles that affirm the kind of Spider-Man that he becomes, it's an act of selfishness that defines the spider-men correct but that wouldn't make sense okay I am done with this note, these are some pretty heavy topics to just be making notes about, also this is like a different subject than the movie, noted and moved on exploring in depth in part two where I might get some answers. -- this is a dumb note ignore it.
- like is penni going to be defined by loosing the robot now? okay now I am done I swear.
- I like this what up danger remix, it is the best scene in the film, everything is at peak performances.
- like the finality sound effect you feel after that last comic hits the screen
- the colors are so vibrant in this last scene.
- obviously the animation is stunning to but it does feel like I am repeating myself over and over again.
- I like how the webbing on his suit looks blue in these scenes, very cool.
- also I really though they were going to end the movie with miles loosing his dad the first time I watched it.
- was that the machine from cloudy with a chance of meatballs lol.
