Michael's Movie Grade: A+
Review: One of the greatest superhero movies ever made and easily the most unique.
We live in a time where the cinema is overrun with superhero movies. It seems there is always a new superhero movie coming out. Movie fans by now have memorized all the superhero movie troops and superhero movies even make fun of these clichés themselves (the Deadpool movies being the most obvious examples). With this it would be easy to think nothing new can be done with superhero movies. That is what makes Into the Spiderverse so incredible. It feels like nothing we have ever seen before (an incredible feet once you consider all the previous Spider-Man movies). This is achieved through the storyline, the characters and the animation. All of these work together perfectly.
What is incredible about this movie is how well it combines all its elements. This movie is filled with over the top meta jokes, cartoon-y humor and even Spider-Ham. These jokes are extremely over the top and made me laugh out loud plenty of times. However they never distract from the story or characters. These remain the main focal point and they work beautifully. The character of Miles Morales is one of the most relatable superheroes in movie history. He is not just a simple nice guy who wants to save people, but instead a fully rounded well thought out character. He is always completely real and this keeps us believing the movie even during its most over the top moments. Peter Parker has maybe never been this fascinating in a movie. Again he is not a cartoon character to us but a real person.
The look of the film is fantastic. This movie looks like you have actually entered into a comic book. The pure amount of visual imagination is incredible. I love all the back stories being told in a comic book form and the final fight scene is one of the best and most unique looking action scenes to ever appear in a superhero movie. The look of this movie is like nothing I have ever seen before and for once there are scenes that I have nothing to compare them to. My jaw dropped at many of these visuals. Still the visuals all play a part in the story and draw you into world of the movie and into the minds of the characters.
I rather not say much about the story here. I came in only knowing what I had seen in the trailers which turned out not to be too much. This was perfect as there was little I saw coming and the movie constantly surprised me.
This is a must see for everybody, even those who normally don't like Superhero films.
-Michael J. Ruhland
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