The New York that Miles inhabits springs to life in images that feel both vividly real and gloriously, proudly cartoonish, combining the vibrant, hyperreal texture of CG animation and the sharp, angular quality of classic comic-book panels. Amiable nonsense that comes pouring out of this movie - my favorite might be a talking pig who goes by Spider-Ham/Peter Porker (he’s Marvel canon, apparently) - is tethered to a boldly imagined origin story with a potent emotional core.Īt the center of that origin story is Miles Morales, a smart Brooklyn teenager and instantly winning creation voiced by Shameik Moore (“Dope”). The reliable comic brain trust of producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (“21 Jump Street,” “The Lego Movie”), along with a trio of directors (Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman), have tackled this project with formula-busting, pretension-puncturing gusto.
To my chagrin, it’s terrific - sweet, serious and irreverent. It dreams up an entirely new storyline set in a parallel-universe New York and introduces an exhausting cross-dimensional cluster of Spidey-heroes. Here to test that theory in an entirely different format is “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” an animated action-comedy that shares no corporate or creative DNA with the Marvel Cinematic Universe. As last year’s joint Sony/Marvel outing “Spider-Man: Homecoming” exuberantly reaffirmed, Peter Parker, that nerdy teenager turned skyscraper-hugging crime fighter, remains one of the most renewable action-movie heroes around.
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