Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Jordan King

Review by Jordan King Patron

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2018

★★★★★

Rewatched 06 Jul 2020

Spider-Ham: That's all, folks.
Peter B. Parker: Is he allowed to say that? Legally?

FUN FACT: If you hit pause anytime a train goes, because all the animators wanted to animate Stan Lee, he's in almost every single train.

Between Spider-Verse, LEGO Batman, and Teen Titans Go, it is becoming increasingly obvious that animated film and comic books simply belong together. There’s something about the symbiosis between the two mediums of storytelling that is undeniable and irrepressible. Every frame of Spider-Verse has a panel pop that is fresh and filled with human grace notes and flourishes; every gag in The Lego Batman Movie is born of a reverence for the clashing campiness and severity of the Detective Comics source; and all of the bluster and bombast of Teen Titans Go! To the Movies feels wrought straight from the shelf of my local childhood newsagent. Visual storytelling of the kind comic books created belongs to artists who use the technology of now and the techniques of way back when to serve the story and further it and its characters through purely expressive images and palettes.

Nothing yet has recreated what it is like to read a comic book fresh off the shelf for the first time quite like Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. It’s bold, daring, bright, dazzling, weird, heartfelt, and hits something deeper than the surface portrays in a way that just satisfies the soul. It’s cinematic comfort food generously laid on with that comic book sauce (or source) for finesse and fine effect. It’s faultless, and it’s so cool, and it’s ours.

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