Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Robert Riley

Review by Robert Riley

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

2018
★★★★★ Liked

Watched 19 Dec 2018

Possibly the biggest swing with the best result of the entire year, it's not simply the fact that "Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse" is so many things, but it's the fact that it's so many things executed outstandingly well that makes it possibly the year's best comic-book movie, nay *movie* (arguably). I'm a simple guy. I walk into an animated movie, I ask for two things. Number one -- tell me an interesting story. And number two -- make it look good. And, dear God, does this do both of those things to an almost excruciatingly original degree. Add my favorite Marvel character and one of my favorite working creatives -- Phil Lord -- into that mix and you get something I never even realized could turn out as objectively magnificent as this. This is a fantastically deep study on not only what the idea of "Spider-Man" means to the characters within the film, but what it means to all people -- including the audience. Spider-Man, the movie posits, is not just a hero, an example, or a cultural fixture, but a mechanism to help people believe in things bigger than themselves. Yes, the movie is that deep. And, boy, does it work. One of the only movies I've seen this year that immediately made me want to about-face my happy ass back to the box office and buy another ticket. It's pure, cinematic candy at its finest.

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