Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
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Review by Zachary Patron

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

2018
★★★★★ Liked

Rewatched 25 May 2023

Shut up and turn it up.

A paint-splattered mixtape of Marvel's greatest hits, chopped and screwed with the B-sides and the one-off gimmicks. It's a vibrant collision of our greatest superhero/es with their plentiful adaptations and iterations. The inspiration points here are strewn across decades of movies, video games, and most especially cartoons. Not only does it level up the panels-within-panels, dynamic action, visual gags, making it the first and so far only comic book movie, but it digs deep into the emotional core of what Spider-Man is, and just about everything the character can be. And from rookie to novice, prime to twilight, from monochrome to radiant color, the film understands this subject more deeply and from more angles than any text, including the sixty plus years of source material. Maybe what's most impressive is that the bursts of sincerity and excitement still kick. Amid this era of countless cape movies, a rapidly crumbling enterprise, this feels reinvigorating and emphatically reminds you why the popularity endures. Even if the genre truly fades, there will always be Spider-Man.

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