In a cinematic universe clogged with a lot of same-y superhero movies, Across the SpiderVerse proves that the future of the genre lies in movies that break the mold. Welcome to the new worldwide web.
, but it sails by just as quickly. Freed of the responsibilities of continuity with the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the movie swings from joke to plot point with charming alacrity. It’s not that the film is disconnected from the MCU—characters from those movies get nods —but rather that it doesn’t bear the narrative burden the live-action movies do. No one is expecting this film to set up, and because it exists in the Spider-Verse, it can go where it likes, do what it wants.
Back in 2015, when Tom Holland was cast as Spider-Man, there had been rumblings on the internet that maybe the next Spidey series could be fronted by Miles Morales, the half-Latino, half-Black teenager who had been wearing the Spidey suit in Marvel comics’ Ultimate line. That didn’t come to pass, and Holland has been a stellar Peter Parker, but whendirectors Chris Miller and Phil Lord were tapped to make an animated Spidey movie, they knew what to do.
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