Spiderman: Into the Spider-Verse
U/A: Animation, Action, Adventure
Director: Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey
Cast: Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Mahershala Ali, Jake Johnson
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is a highly inventive, unique and stimulating experience. The team entrusted with this creation appears to have caught on to the multiplicity of the extended comic-book universe and this resultant Spider-Verse is clever, daring and works-in multiple levels of fun. The form is dynamic, the content is layered and the spirit on display is clearly excitable. Characters have a solid relatable foundation and the tone, gags and dramatic beats make their mark felt. This big screen debut of Miles Morales, the black/Latino Spidey, is a strong case for diversity under the garb of routine heroics. Miles (Shameik Moore) is a mixed race Brooklyn kid going to a private school he hates. His hard-working parents, dad, a cop (Brian Tyree Henry) and mom, a nurse (Lauren Velez) are typically middle-class in their efforts to bring up their son as a good American boy.