Random Movie Review - Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse

So ever since the sixties cartoons and more recently with the Tobey Maguire films and the ninties cartoon, many of us have come to know and love Peter Parker and his superhero alter-ego best known as our friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man. Pretty much every adaptation of the character has been about him and most of us have always thought that he is the one and only Spider-Man out there. But any of us who have read Marvel's Ultimate universe comics will know that actually and more recently, there are more spider people out there and its not just him anymore. We've all been wanting to hear the backstories of these other spider people on screen and through the creative minds of The Lego Movie's Phil Lord and Chris Miller, that's what we got and this is it. Critics have called it one of the greatest superhero films ever made and it has won quite a few awards including Best Picture, Best Animated Film, lots of awards with the word Outstanding and more. So let's get right to it and see if this film was worth the effort:

So after one of the most weirdest logo intros I have ever seen, we hear the origin story of Peter Parker (voiced by the new Captain Kirk, Chris Pine) as if we don't know it already with a lot of strong references to Tobey Maguire's time as the character. We hear about him being the one and only Spider-Man before we cut to hearing the story of Miles Morales (voiced by Shameik Moore), a teenager going to a boarding school who has issues with his police cop father Jefferson Davis (voiced by Brian Tyree Henry) and looks up to his uncle Aaron Davis (voiced by Mahershala Ali). After a night of spending time with his uncle, Miles gets bitten by a radioactive spider and (as any fan would expect to see) starts to see some changes inside him. Wanting to find said spider, Miles stumbles across a particle accelerator built by the Kingpin himself Wilson Fisk (voiced by Liev Schreiber, aka that guy who once played the brother to Wolverine) who plans to use it to bring back his wife and son who left him and got killed via an out of control speeding car during an incident involving Spider-Man. Spider-Man meets Miles and upon learning about him, he gives him the job to stop Kingpin's plans from coming into fruition before something bad happens to him. This then leaves Miles to fulfil the promise he made and learn of his newfound powers while meeting others like him along the way.

Basically this film is like The Lego Batman Movie in that it serves as a love letter to Spider-Man fans everywhere and gives us a fresh take on the origin story, but with a different person instead of Peter Parker. It is a great film that has lots of Spider-Man and Marvel Easter eggs, makes full use of each of the spider people seen in the film (and all of them are from the comics too) and its animation makes it feel like its coming straight from the comics though at least three of the spider people will look different for reasons that will be made obvious when you see them. It also has more heartbreaking moments than any of the Spider-Man films before it (even though the rating is the one below the traditional rating for this kind of film) and has a great soundtrack if you are into rap and hip-hop. Another great film from Lord and Miller and I look forward to see where this goes in the future. It also has one of the most meaningful Stan Lee cameos to ever be seen in film. 9/10