{"id":1446,"date":"2019-05-14T15:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T21:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=1446"},"modified":"2019-03-31T18:03:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T00:03:15","slug":"movie-spider-man-into-the-spider-verse-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/14\/movie-spider-man-into-the-spider-verse-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVIE: Spider-Man – Into the Spider-Verse (2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Spider-Man:Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
\n<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2018
\nRating: PG
\nLength: 117 minutes \/ 1.95 hours<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no hiding that Spider-Man is my favorite superhero. My reviews of Spider-Man: Homecoming<\/em><\/a> (2017) and Venom<\/em><\/a> (2018) say as much. I grew up watching the 1990s animated Spider-Man show, so when I saw early trailers for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse<\/em> (2018), I half-thought it would be some direct-to-video movie. After all, everything up until now had been live-action. I was encouraged to learn that it would receive a theatrical release, especially when I started to see more footage of its unique artistic style. Not only does Into the Spider-Verse<\/em> embrace its comic book origins, but it also does so with a flair and panache that I\u2019d almost like to see in other superhero franchises.<\/p>\n

Over the years, I\u2019d only loosely been paying attention to what was happening in the Spider-Man comics. Sure, I knew about<\/em> Spider-Gwen (Hailee Steinfeld) and Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) but more in the sense that they were departures from the white-male Peter Parker (Jake Johnson) that carried the franchise for so long. It then makes sense that these three were what dominated the first half of this movie. While I adored Peni Parker (Kimiko Glenn) and Spider-Man Noir (Nicholas Cage)\u2014not Spider-Ham (John Mulaney) as much\u2014their extreme takes on the theme could have used a little more screen time, even if they might have distracted from the primary narrative.<\/p>\n

In the end, choosing to make Into the Spider-Verse<\/em> animated helped to open up the creative options available to it in this medium. I could see why it won the Best Animated Picture Oscar this year, as the fusion of classic 2-D comic books and 3-D CGI blended in an endlessly entertaining way. I\u2019m excited that there seems to be a sequel in the works, as my appetite has been whetted with this film and I\u2019m ready to consume more of it as soon as possible. I just hope it lives up to the nearly perfect presentation that this trailblazing movie managed to create.<\/p>\n

A visually groundbreaking, laugh-out-loud funny, and overall entertaining superhero film, I give Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse<\/em> 5.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n

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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Year: 2018 Rating: PG Length: 117 minutes \/ 1.95 hours There\u2019s no hiding that Spider-Man is my favorite superhero. My reviews of Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) and Venom (2018) say as much. I grew up watching the 1990s animated Spider-Man show, so when I saw early trailers for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), I half-thought it would be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,1199,2],"tags":[1576,7,1745,87,1740,1744,84,13,8,986],"class_list":["post-1446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5-0-stars","category-animated","category-movie","tag-1576","tag-animated","tag-best-animated-picture","tag-comicbook","tag-comics","tag-into-the-spider-verse","tag-marvel","tag-movie","tag-review","tag-spider-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1453,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions\/1453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}