By the time she leaves to join Miguel’s Spider-Society after a key moment of reckoning, the colors of that aesthetic have virtually bled over any recognizable inch of her New York City.īut buckle up for when “Across” takes the plunge and finds new heights to its creativity. He’s animated to resemble the scraggly drawings of his era’s da Vinci, his sharp-lined features contrasting a gorgeous watercolor aesthetic whose hues brighten, darken and run in lockstep with Gwen’s problems.

(Great power can be such a drag, huh?) In an early sign that “Across the Spider-Verse” has at least met the high bar set by its predecessor, this extended cold open plays out with a rollicking sense of momentum and consequence, punctuated with Gwen battling a 16th-century Vulture who’s glitched into her universe. But “Across the Spider-Verse” needs just a few moments to make good on its title’s promise, opening at the other end of the multiverse to catch us up with returning Spider-Woman Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfeld) and her own anxieties-chief among them her police-captain father hunting down their universe’s webslinger that he doesn’t know is living under their roof. Regardless, Miguel doesn’t fully enter the fray until the movie’s second hour. The film is durable enough to catch whatever sequelitis-induced headache you might've sustained from 'Fast X' and remedy it too. It isn’t because it's so narratively busy you talk yourself into believing a 140-minute investment was worth it that “Spider-Verse” is both the best animated movie and best comic book film to emerge from Hollywood in recent years it’s the creators’ savvy at weaving a web so intricate and delicate that you can’t help but want to see the full design for yourself. “Across the Spider-Verse,” a magnificent and long-awaited sequel to 2018’s cinematic disruptor, also saves much of its resolution for a third Miles Morales movie (the bifurcation was announced in 2021) but fully earns its ellipsis. It was just in the last few weeks that Vin Diesel and his “Fast and Furious” troupe weightlessly crashed vehicles together en route to a frustrating excuse for a cliffhanger that left us feeling neither like our nerves were on a cliff’s edge nor that we wouldn’t already know how soft the landing will be.

Download vin diesel comic book movie