SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE
Director: Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman
2018, 117, PG-13
Screenwriter: Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman, based on the Marvel characters created by Brian Michael Bendis and Sara Pichelli.
Cast: With the voices of: Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld, Mahershala Ali, and more.
Maybe you were starting to think that the time for Spidey-sense had passed – but this new animated movie with a retro look, hip-hop score and a new mutated-by-spider-bite superhero, makes everything fresh. An African American/Puerto Rican teenager named Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) grabs for the crown, with Peter Parker’s powers and some moves of his own, from venom strike to invisibility. And since teenaged angst and grownup evil still thrive, a disruption in the space-time continuum allows web-producers from a multiplicity of universes come to help: an anime girl (Kimiko Glenn) with a robot spider, a film noir icon (Nicolas Cage), a Spider-Ham (John Mulaney), and the one and only Spider-Woman (Hailee Steinfeld).
“A pop-art roller coaster ride with soul” – Ty Burr, Boston Globe.
