Spider Man
I liked the movie from the beginning, but I do not get why people value it so highly as to say it is the best superhero movie. I find it excessive to rate something as the best, especially the film that requires me to see part 2(2024?) to get the whole story.
The movie’s animation and visual rhetoric are spectacular, starting with the good things. The animation is so smooth and captivating. As far as I know, this infamous chasing sequence took four years to be animated as they spent much time animating the movie frame by frame. The work with colours is no less than extraordinary. Seeing each world getting specific colour coding was a good choice as it allows the audience to get what it means to have “spidey sense” because we see the characters’ emotions via the actual usage of different colours around characters or via colouring the surface with this colour. For example, nature Gwen is initially coloured blue to represent how much she, as Gwen Stacy, is a cold person or defined as that one due to the circumstances that are in the family.
Moreover, the colours matter in visualising different dimensions in the movie. It becomes evident when we reach the movie’s climax as Miles Morales’ character enters “his dimension”. The world number 42 is coloured red and dark colours. Also, the world gives off ominous/shadow vibes when we see as Miles enters this world, New York rains and the colours are different from his original world. I guess colours are an indefinitely particular part of the plot. As I said previously, it is used to show the background of the world without using a lot of time to build up the world and using an essential part of screen time. The original world of Miles Morales is very bright, but what is the reason behind it? I suppose it is done to showcase that Miles Morales is built differently, which matters in the story’s plot. The animation is the most significant say for people who put 10/10 reviews to this movie.
Many characters in this movie matter for the story as the story revolves around the spider-verse theme introduced in the first movie. We have in the film:
Miles Morales - is our protagonist. We can see that in the first movie, we get what it means to be a spider man and the character of Miles Morales fills the free shoes as this world needs Spider-Man. The 2nd movie revolves around his struggles of being a hero because he lives like the other spider-men characters, but he has a different foundation built up. Having read plenty of reviews on Letterboxd and IMDB, I know his representation status of being the black sheep in the spider-verse. His character is crucial, but more is his creation background because the movie focuses on the fact that Miles Morales is not Peter Parker, and we see the debate of whether Miles Morales is worthy of being Spider-Man. Overall, his existence is questioned in the movie.
Gwen Stacy is a secondary character, but her character is crucial as her plotline ends in this movie. She goes from not being willing to open up, to open up. What action made her personality change? Probably, her father’s resignation is changing the CANON PLOT. Like, DUH? She escapes it throughout the movie until she is made to return. What did change inside her? She accepted that she had friends. She will help Miles Morales.
Miguel O’Hara - the antagonist in this movie. Oh, what a good character he seems in the beginning, and what a cringe-fest he appears to me at the end. He is so focused on the Spider-Verse because of his tragic story. He is the obsessed one, but he is not bad at the same time. He is a grey-ish character with a different philosophy. I don’t like what they did to Spider-Man '2099, making him an obsessed geek of Spider-verse and focused on the one thing I have a say about here. CANON-PLOT huh? Why does all Spider-Man follow him unconditionally? What did he do to them? Why not even one until Miles’ escape questions his philosophy? Other Spider-Men in the movie seem more like a fan service, and they are in the film just to be there. Unlike previous movies, there are too many of them.
Spot - villain. “I want to be a worthy villain for you. We will be worthy opponents for each other.” From being a funny c-Tier villain, he rises as a threat of the Avengers’ level 😀. How does he do it? Because he wants to. Overall, the villain is not essential in this movie. He is crucial for the plot as he is the cause of Miles Morales’ conflict with Miguel O’Hara.
Spider-Punk: After rewatching it, I saw that he is more crucial to the story than we might initially think, but his character does help in the report by providing Gwen with a tool to travel to different dimensions. Why? Why? Why? Because he is an anarchist. He hates O’Hara with his system. I want to say something about this character, especially how he got voiced in the Russian/Kazakh dub. His voice or translation to Russian (which seems like a translation issue) is terrible. It loses so much glamour and pathos he has in the original voicing. His authentic voice sounds more mature and less cringy than in Russian.
Other characters(honestly, there are too many of them, so I will point only one character out of all the others I want to talk about here that are crucial for the plot directly) That girl(VR Spider-Man with avatar) is near teleporting things to original dimensions. Why does she help Miles Morales? WHY? WHY? WHY? Honestly, nothing was done to explain it. I guess I AM BLIND.
What I don’t like about the movie is that:
- Ladies and Gentlemen, we got Dune-d. The movie still needs to be finished. Why does the world accept the idea of splitting the whole film into two and say that it is normal? When I started to see that movie was too long and the climax was not close, I understood I would get Dune-d here again. What might happen? It will come out in more than 1 or 2 years.
Will it be on screen next year? The amount of animation that was required to make the movie, as well as the voicing, took four years for this movie. Unlike “Avengers: Infinity War”, I fear that it will not be in 1 year, so the hype will go down, and all we are left with is the unfinished story of Miles Morales.
This movie resembles a series scheme. Let me explain it here:
- We are in the Miles Morales movie (1st hour)
- Woah, there are different dimensions (hello Spider-Man INDIA)
- NUEVA YORK introduction, as well as a chase scene
- My world?
- Cliffhanger
- Next movie
I think if the movie wanted to be a finished product, it would have had an additional hour to finish it all up 🙂
Miguel O’Hara referred to this movie. Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Like Peter Parker of Tom Holland, Miles Morales wants to fight against destiny because why do we cope with it? It is done far better, but it is still the same idea. It makes me feel that the movie is not even fresh because of it.
We have a canon event idea in both movies. Peter/Miles, there are things in the timeline that we cannot change.
The idea of multiple dimensions and verses is already too generic. Because why do we have so many similarities with these movies? It is becoming too generic and overused in recent years.
It is still a good movie but not 10/10 or even 9/10. In my ranking system, it is a very solid 7/10 as a standalone movie.