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"Writers/producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s 2018 Oscar-winning
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is one of modern superhero cinema’s genuine
triumphs, this despite the fact that it helped make the multiverse—that dreaded
concept which allows for endless reiterations, revisions and reboots—a
mainstream staple.
There are even more Spider-men, women, children and animals to be found in its
follow-up,
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, which hits theaters June 2,
an overstuffed saga that boasts a heart and flair that only a few of its genre
brethren can match. Sending its Brooklyn-native wall-crawler Miles Morales
(Shameik Moore) on an odyssey to multiple mirror-image Earths, it’s a smashing
success which proves that a surplus of web-slingers—and artistic imagination—is
never enough.
Setting a new benchmark for diverse, agile, breathtaking animation,
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is as striking as non-live-action films
come, mixing and matching patterns and palettes to create an awe-inspiringly
expressive tapestry of designs and hues. Its models ranging from
CGI-traditional to hand-drawn sketchy to cut-and-paste raggedy, directors
Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson’s sequel is a
multifaceted wonder, and that also goes for the interaction between its
foreground figures and background environments, which vary in fashion, vibrancy
and focus, frequently assuming a form (say, a dripping watercolor technique for
a moving conversation) to match the tenor of a given scene.
Additionally embellishing its frame with schizo-computerized effects, comic
book panel-esque dialogue boxes, split screens and numerous other flourishes
(all of it enhanced by Daniel Pemberton’s sumptuous score of hip-hop, soul and
electronica), it’s an eruption of dynamic, dexterous aesthetics.
Looks, though, are merely a part of
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’s
astonishing package. Staging a series of set pieces that are so swift and
complex that trying to keep up is its own joy, the film leaves its blockbuster
competition in the dust, buried beneath an avalanche of titanic urban-chaos
action. The level of detailed planning and unhinged invention that must have
gone into concocting these sequences is jaw-dropping. What ultimately matters,
however, is the finished product, and what a product it is, with each milieu
and chase, skirmish and rescue more distinctive and impressive than the last.
Bursting with light, color, movement and madcap energy and humor, as well as
shout-outs to just about every preceding Spider-Man iteration (and meme) in
history, it’s a feast for the superheroic senses."
Via Frederick Wilson II.
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