2018 · animation · action · superhero
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Directed by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman1h 57m2018
Struggling to find his place in the world while juggling school and family, Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales is unexpectedly bitten by a radioactive spider and develops unfathomable powers just like the one and only Spider-Man. While wrestling with the implications of his new abilities, Miles discovers a super collider created by the madman Wilson "Kingpin" Fisk, causing others from across the Spider-Verse to be inadvertently transported to his dimension.
Our read: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive animation · action · superhero entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, breathless, measured animation / action, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender.
- warm
- kinetic
- redemptive
- tender
- epic-stakes
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