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Wednesday, December 13, 2023

SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE (2023)

SPOILER-ALERT!  Not from us!  No, the Spoiler comes from the SPIDER-VERSE itself, announcing ‘To Be Continued’ right at the end.  After 2+ hours setting up one more go at SPIDEY ORIGIN STORY (Chapter Five: Dad Dies), does anyone imagine they’ll go thru with it in some putative Part II?  Me neither.  Regretfully, after seeing Spidey masters Phil Lord & Christopher Miller demonstrate that MORE truly is LESS, perhaps it’s time to bid the SPIDER-VERSE goodbye.  A shame too, as INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE/’18 was such a happy surprise.*  Now, 15-yr-old Spidey, the Black High School Spidey with a cop for a father, gets confronted by Anti-Matter ‘Spot’ (slackly voiced by Jason Schwartzman, but conceptually the best thing in here), a Super-Villain powerful enough to need a village (of Spider-Entities) to counter him . . . in the next film.  All those International Spideys, wedged in like some SONY Headphone Product Placement.  Altogether too many Spideys (and all with parental separation issues); too many styles of animation thrown at us; too many plotlines & characters (catering to multiple views as you’ll need to reach Level Six to figure it all out), the evanescent look both cool & headache inducing.  When it opens in a year or three, just let us know how they finesse their way out of knocking off Dad so we don’t have to sit thru another 2+ hours.

WATCH THIS, NOT THAT/LINK:  *And INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE/’18 so promising.  https://maksquibs.blogspot.com/2019/05/spider-man-into-spider-verse-2018.html

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