Sony has an interesting franchise in Spider-Man, teaming up with Marvel Studios with Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), the Tom Holland version, then there is this year’s Venom, with Tom Hardy’s character that originated in Spider-Man comics released in October, and now there is the animated Miles Morales Spider-Man. Miles comes from Earth-1610, called the Ultimate Universe, in the comics. The Earths are not identified. This version of Spider-man was introduced in Ultimate Fallout #4 (2011) by Brian Michael Bendis and Sara Pichelli. The Spider-Verse storyline ran in the third volume of Amazing Spider-Man #10-14 (2015) by Dan Scott and artists Olivier Coipel and Giuseppte Camuncoli as well as the Edge of Spider-Verse title.
In 2013, the second season of the animated Ultimate Spider-Man, covered Spider-Verse, but even if you know the comics and cartoon, you will be pleasantly surprised. It has a directing team with Peter Ramsey who previously directed Rise of the Guardians (2012), and animation veterans, Bob Persichetti and Rodney Rothman. The film has a screenplay by Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman with story by Phil Lord. His partner, Christopher Miller, is a producer. It is an interesting year for Lord and Miller since they were dropped from finishing Solo: A Star Wars Story so this movie’s success will maybe make Lucasfilm doubt their decision. Last note: the animation has all of the energy, perspective, and speed of the comic books including panels, captions, zip-a-tone shading and old school coloring, and sound effects, but I saw it in 2D and it looked like a few frames had the blur of 3D, so I think it is preferable to see it in 3D.
In 2013, the second season of the animated Ultimate Spider-Man, covered Spider-Verse, but even if you know the comics and cartoon, you will be pleasantly surprised. It has a directing team with Peter Ramsey who previously directed Rise of the Guardians (2012), and animation veterans, Bob Persichetti and Rodney Rothman. The film has a screenplay by Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman with story by Phil Lord. His partner, Christopher Miller, is a producer. It is an interesting year for Lord and Miller since they were dropped from finishing Solo: A Star Wars Story so this movie’s success will maybe make Lucasfilm doubt their decision. Last note: the animation has all of the energy, perspective, and speed of the comic books including panels, captions, zip-a-tone shading and old school coloring, and sound effects, but I saw it in 2D and it looked like a few frames had the blur of 3D, so I think it is preferable to see it in 3D.
The movie begins with the introduction of Spider-Man, this is the one glimpsed in the trailers, that has Sam Raimi Spider-Man feats. This Spider-Man is voiced by Chris Pine, he voiced Jack Frost in Rise of the Guardians, but has super hero cred playing Steve Trevor in Wonder Woman (2017). Peter Parker stresses that is the one and only Spider-Man. We have the comic book cover of the True Life Tales of Spider-Man. This of course shifts to Miles Morales who of course is voiced by Shameik Moore known for playing Malcolm in Dope (2015). Miles is a street artist and conflicted since he has to leave public school winning a scholarship to a private school, Brooklyn Visions. He has an imposing father, Jefferson Davis (Brian Tyree Henry from the Atlanta series) who tries to be close to his son. An important character in the film.
His mother, Rio Morales (Luna Lauren Velez who is in The First Purge film this year), is also loving and speaks to him in Spanish. Miles tries to walk to school slapping stickers with his art around the city and is nearly run over by his father in his police car. He expresses his dislike of Spider-Man who takes away from the hard work of police officers. Then, we get Miles trying to leave his father’s car and Jefferson using the loudspeaker to force Miles to say “I love you, dad.” This of course follows Miles as he enters Brooklyn Visions. The film is brilliant capturing the nervousness of teens as he sees the gossip around him worse than any super villain. He also happens to meet a blond-haired girl who introduces herself as "Gwanda", but it is Gwen Stacy voiced by Hailee Steinfeld who is also in Bumblebee. Miles has a roommate, Ganke Lee, who is his confidant in the comics similar to Ned (Jacob Batalon) in Spider-Man: Homecoming which is probably why he doesn’t have a line of dialogue.
His mother, Rio Morales (Luna Lauren Velez who is in The First Purge film this year), is also loving and speaks to him in Spanish. Miles tries to walk to school slapping stickers with his art around the city and is nearly run over by his father in his police car. He expresses his dislike of Spider-Man who takes away from the hard work of police officers. Then, we get Miles trying to leave his father’s car and Jefferson using the loudspeaker to force Miles to say “I love you, dad.” This of course follows Miles as he enters Brooklyn Visions. The film is brilliant capturing the nervousness of teens as he sees the gossip around him worse than any super villain. He also happens to meet a blond-haired girl who introduces herself as "Gwanda", but it is Gwen Stacy voiced by Hailee Steinfeld who is also in Bumblebee. Miles has a roommate, Ganke Lee, who is his confidant in the comics similar to Ned (Jacob Batalon) in Spider-Man: Homecoming which is probably why he doesn’t have a line of dialogue.
Miles later sneaks out to see his uncle, Aaron Davis, voiced by Mahershala Ali. The actor won the Academy Award for Moonlight (2016), he is currently in Green Book, and has some super hero cred with Luke Cage. The character was played by Donald Glover in Spider-Man: Homecoming who was one of the inspirations for Miles Morales. Miles brings up the girl he met at school and Aaron tells him about the Shoulder Touch (!). He has Miles practice the Shoulder Touch with the Look. His uncle knows his police officer father has been taking down his stickers and offers to take him to a place where his facer won’t take down his tag. Miles follows Aaron down a subway track and over a locked fence. He finds a wall where he can use spray paint to put up his tag and also Aaron spray paints around Miles.
While this is happening, a radioactive spider crawls towards Miles, this is changed from Aaron’s apartment in the comics. It of course bites Miles and in a very funny turn, he is not bothered by the bite, and the spider dies. The next day, Miles sees Gwen and tries to use the Shoulder Touch, and finds that his spider-clinging power sticks to her. This results in a very funny scene, but Gwen could have helped him. The scene builds with Miles power going out of control which he blames on puberty. It is a funny mirror of the real world biological change, but we know that Miles is going through a super change. He returns to the wall to find the spider. This leads him to witnessing a battle between Spider-Man and Green Goblin (Jorma Taccone), turned into a hulking demon. Spider-Man saves Miles and tries to keep him out of the battle. He is fighting to stop a Super Collider from opening dimensions. The Goblin holds Spider-Man into the vortex which of course sets the pattern of finding Spider-Man types across the Spider-Verse.
While this is happening, a radioactive spider crawls towards Miles, this is changed from Aaron’s apartment in the comics. It of course bites Miles and in a very funny turn, he is not bothered by the bite, and the spider dies. The next day, Miles sees Gwen and tries to use the Shoulder Touch, and finds that his spider-clinging power sticks to her. This results in a very funny scene, but Gwen could have helped him. The scene builds with Miles power going out of control which he blames on puberty. It is a funny mirror of the real world biological change, but we know that Miles is going through a super change. He returns to the wall to find the spider. This leads him to witnessing a battle between Spider-Man and Green Goblin (Jorma Taccone), turned into a hulking demon. Spider-Man saves Miles and tries to keep him out of the battle. He is fighting to stop a Super Collider from opening dimensions. The Goblin holds Spider-Man into the vortex which of course sets the pattern of finding Spider-Man types across the Spider-Verse.
It was built by the Kingpin voiced by Liev Schreiber. He was the voice of Spots in this year’s Isle of Dogs and also has his super hero cred playing Sabretooth in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009). The massive bulk of the Kingpin was based on the Frank Miller design during his Daredevil run. The character is associated with Daredevil, but started out as a Spider-Man villain in Amazing Spider-Man #50 (1967). We later find out that he lost his wife, Vanessa, and son to a car accident and blames their deaths on Spider-Man. In the comics, there was the Great Web that connected all of the Spider characters, and led to Spider-Man’s Earth. I wonder if this will be in a sequel and if it will feature Morlun the super villain who hunts down all Spider avatars across the universes. The Super Collider was built by Dr. Olivia (Kathryn Hahn), a science-type with glasses, Olivia is her first name.
I noticed that Kingpin is protected by Tombstone, a pale gunman who was introduced in Web of Spider-Man #36 (1988). Green Goblin is caught up in an explosion of the vortex. The activation of the Super Collider is later attributed to an earthquake. Spider-Man is hunted by the Prowler. He has Miles promise to take a chip, an "access key", to load into a panel of the Super Collider to destroy it. Miles takes the chip and has to escape the Prowler and manages to escape in the New York streets. The next day, Miles purchases a store-bought Spider-Man costume to wear at services attended by Mary Jane Watson (Zoe Kravitz). He tries to leap from a building, but falls and breaks the chip! I found the sadness from the real world reflected into the fictional world of the movie. So warning to everyone especially young ones, death is prevalent in the movie, and again very heavy with the passings we had this year.
I noticed that Kingpin is protected by Tombstone, a pale gunman who was introduced in Web of Spider-Man #36 (1988). Green Goblin is caught up in an explosion of the vortex. The activation of the Super Collider is later attributed to an earthquake. Spider-Man is hunted by the Prowler. He has Miles promise to take a chip, an "access key", to load into a panel of the Super Collider to destroy it. Miles takes the chip and has to escape the Prowler and manages to escape in the New York streets. The next day, Miles purchases a store-bought Spider-Man costume to wear at services attended by Mary Jane Watson (Zoe Kravitz). He tries to leap from a building, but falls and breaks the chip! I found the sadness from the real world reflected into the fictional world of the movie. So warning to everyone especially young ones, death is prevalent in the movie, and again very heavy with the passings we had this year.
Miles goes to a snowy graveyard and is confronted by a strange man who happens to fire webs at him before being knocked out by Miles’ power called “Bio-Electrokinesis” called Venom Blast by Miles in the comics! He later finds out that he is Peter B. Parker (Jake Johnson). Johnson is recently in the movie Tag, he was in Lord and Miller’s 21 Jump Street (2012), and also voiced Oxnard in Bojack Horseman. This Spider-Man introduces himself explaining he comes from a dimension where Mary Jane divorced him. He let himself go, poorly shaved, with a paunchy belly. Spider-Man suffers from glitches that causes him pain and eventually we find his appearance from another universe will eventually lead to his disintegration! The same goes with the other dimensions visitors.
Miles tells Peter that the chip, Peter calls it a Goober, is broken and they go to Alchemax, secluded out in the snowy woods, to find replacement data. It is a corporation that was introduced in Spider-Man 2099 #1 (1992). Peter has Miles stand watch while he goes in to copy the data. Miles spots the Kingpin and goes to help Spider-Man. He discovers that he has another power, to turn invisible, what Miles calls “Spider-Camouflage" in the comics. Still, all of Miles’ powers are unreliable, he has to learn how to control them. They manage to escape with a computer and are helped by Spider-Gwen who calls herself Spider Woman. She was introduced in Edge of Spider-Verse #2 (2014). Her costume is one of the best in the movie. Spider-Gwen comes from Earth-65 in the comics. They head to the house of this Earth’s Peter Parker and answering the door is Aunt May voiced by Lily Tomlin. The actress currently in the series Grace and Frankie and continues to voice Professor Frizzle in The Magic School Bus Rides Again. She is one of the best versions of Aunt May, a survivor, who instantly realizes that Peter is from another dimension.
Miles tells Peter that the chip, Peter calls it a Goober, is broken and they go to Alchemax, secluded out in the snowy woods, to find replacement data. It is a corporation that was introduced in Spider-Man 2099 #1 (1992). Peter has Miles stand watch while he goes in to copy the data. Miles spots the Kingpin and goes to help Spider-Man. He discovers that he has another power, to turn invisible, what Miles calls “Spider-Camouflage" in the comics. Still, all of Miles’ powers are unreliable, he has to learn how to control them. They manage to escape with a computer and are helped by Spider-Gwen who calls herself Spider Woman. She was introduced in Edge of Spider-Verse #2 (2014). Her costume is one of the best in the movie. Spider-Gwen comes from Earth-65 in the comics. They head to the house of this Earth’s Peter Parker and answering the door is Aunt May voiced by Lily Tomlin. The actress currently in the series Grace and Frankie and continues to voice Professor Frizzle in The Magic School Bus Rides Again. She is one of the best versions of Aunt May, a survivor, who instantly realizes that Peter is from another dimension.
Aunt May takes them to a secret passage, past the infamous Spider-Buggy, to Spider-Man’s collection of costumes. There is also the other Spider-Verse visitors; Spider-Man Noir (Nicholas Cage) from Earth-90214, Peni Parker (Kimiko Glenn) from Earth-14512, and lastly Spider-Ham (John Mulaney) from Earth-8311. Spider-Man Noir has the black trench coat, hat, carries guns, but with black Spider-Man mask. The character first appeared in Spider-Man Noir #1 (2009). Cage of course is a well known actor, winning the Academy Award for Leaving Las Vegas (1995), he currently voiced another animated film with Teen Titans Go! To the Movies, and he also has super hero cred playing Ghost Rider in two films. I hope Cage moves into voice acting. Edge of Spider-Verse #5 (2014) was the first appearance of Peni Parker. She is an anime-style character in this film complete with a mecha robot called SP//dr. Glenn is currently in the YouTube show, Liza on Demand, and voices Lena in Duck Tales.
One of the most fun Spider-Verse characters, part of the Web Warriors in the Ultimate Spider-Man animated series, is Spider-Ham, a Looney Tunes-type character. He was introduced in the one-shot Marvel Tails Starring Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham (1983). John Mulaney is a well known comedian who has his special, John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous at Radio City, on Netflix, he also currently provides voices for the Netflix animated series Big Mouth. The Web Warriors have to help Miles become a hero. They face the villainy of the Prowler, Tombstone, and also the mutant Scorpion (Joaquin Cosio). Miles is one of the best Spider-Man characters, more relatable as a teen trying to cope with the complications of life, Moore is perfect as Miles. He has to fulfill his promisee and destroy the Super Collider and return the Web Warriors. There is a mid-credit and end credit sequence so don’t miss them! This film is unexpectedly surprising, funny, and a real tribute to comic book characters and creators. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is the ultimate and definitive Spider-Man film1.
One of the most fun Spider-Verse characters, part of the Web Warriors in the Ultimate Spider-Man animated series, is Spider-Ham, a Looney Tunes-type character. He was introduced in the one-shot Marvel Tails Starring Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham (1983). John Mulaney is a well known comedian who has his special, John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous at Radio City, on Netflix, he also currently provides voices for the Netflix animated series Big Mouth. The Web Warriors have to help Miles become a hero. They face the villainy of the Prowler, Tombstone, and also the mutant Scorpion (Joaquin Cosio). Miles is one of the best Spider-Man characters, more relatable as a teen trying to cope with the complications of life, Moore is perfect as Miles. He has to fulfill his promisee and destroy the Super Collider and return the Web Warriors. There is a mid-credit and end credit sequence so don’t miss them! This film is unexpectedly surprising, funny, and a real tribute to comic book characters and creators. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is the ultimate and definitive Spider-Man film1.
Five Goobers out of Five!
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