I've honestly been done with
Spider-man movies for a while. In my lifetime, they have cycled
through 3 different actors to play him, just recycling the story over
and over. And that's just the live-action movies. Add in the
comics, where the real experimentation takes place. Versions of
Spidey have been every race, gender,and species you can imagine.
Comic writers get away with this by simply declaring that they are
working in a different universe. They've been doing this since the
'50s, the “Golden Age” of comics. A writer would decide that he
wanted to write a story about, say, Superman. If his story was going
to contradict something from all the previous Superman comics, then
he could just declare that this took place in an alternate universe.
In the case of Spider-man, most people
are familiar with Peter Parker, the teenager who develops superpowers
after being bitten by a radioactive spider. In comics there's a
parallel universe where Gwen Stacey, a Peter Parker love interest in
the original universe, is the one bitten by the spider. There's a
Spider-man Noir series about a version of spidey from the 1930's, and
there's a Japanese anime comic where the hero and the spider work
together to operate a mechanical spider robot. There's even a parody
comic about Spider-ham, where the web-slinging hero is a pig.
There's also one where a Black/Latino
teen named Miles Morales is the one who gets bitten by the
radioactive spider and gets the superpowers, and that's where
“Spider-man: Into the Spiderverse” picks up. There's already a
Peter Parker/Spider-man in Miles's world, but he gets killed trying
to stop a villain named Kingpin from opening a dangerous
inter-dimensional window. The window gets opened, and spider-people
from a bunch of different universes get sucked into Miles's 'verse.
The dying Parker tasks Miles, who hasn't even learned to use his
powers yet, with stopping Kingpin from opening the window again.
Miles sets out to try, with help from the other spider-people.
As comic-book movies go, this isn't on
the level of "Watchmen," but it's pretty fun. The animated
format frees it up, and it's way more fun than any live-action
Spider-man I've seen in a while. There's nothing particularly deep
here, and your life will go along just fine if you miss it, but it's
worth a watch, if you're into this kind of thing.
3 stars out of 5
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