The film’s plotting is satisfyingly zippy and fleet, giving us hectic proliferations on the same old web-slinging. despite the latter having been murdered on the job (bear with me) by Kingpin (Liev Schreiber) and having to beam in posthumously from another dimension. After a few bouts of practice, he finds himself teaming up with the other Spider-Man in mind-spinning ways. Miles is a black-Hispanic teenager, living in New York City, who has a Spidey-saga of his own to relate, and emerges as one of the most appealing new heroes in the Marvel pantheon: a soulful graphic-design nerd finding his place in the world.īitten by a spider in the city’s bowels while he’s graffiti-tagging an off-limits section of subway, he gains all the same powers Peter did, confusing them initially for some particularly humiliating phase of puberty. Swiftly wiping its hands of Peter Parker’s origin story – “I am the one and only Spider-Man!” he boasts, very incorrectly – it switches tack straightaway to tell the tale of Miles Morales, a new character created in 2011 and voiced here by Shameik Moore. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is produced by the guys who made The Lego Movie, which is just a starting indication of the wit, speed and irreverence it unleashes.
It’s not another live-action Marvel sequel – give us a moment to breathe, for all that’s holy – but an animated one. How fitting that just a month after Stan Lee died, the most detailed homage conceivable to his art and legacy lands in cinemas. Dirs: Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman. Cast: Shameik Moore (voice), Jake Johnson (voice), Hailee Steinfeld (voice), Liev Schreiber (voice), Nicolas Cage (voice), John Mulaney (voice), Lily Tomlin (voice). PG cert, 117 mins
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