'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse' puts the comic book back into comic book movies
To say that Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse feels like a comic book come to life may sound like faint praise, seeing as we're two decades into a superhero movie boom that the original Spider-Man helped jump start.
But few recent films have embraced the comic book style and sensibility — its visual quirks and anything-goes openness — as wholeheartedly as Spider-Verse has, or enjoyed as fully the potential in combining the two mediums.
Right off the bat, Spider-Verse acknowledges that it's probably the 700th Spider-Man story you've seen in the past few years. A voiceover "yada yadas" the basics of Peter Parker's origin story, while winking at almost every iteration of it; even the much-maligned Spider-Man 3 gets a rueful shoutout. This movie isn't afraid of a laugh at its own expense, though the knowing humor is more affectionate than biting. Read more...
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