STRAIGHT FROM THE COMICS TO THE BIG SCREEN
Happy New Year guys! Hope you had a great festive period and enjoyed a well-deserved holiday.
2018 was a great year for movies, and here's the final one that'll make the cut for consideration on my upcoming Top 10 BEST Movies of 2018 list.
Notice how I didn't mention the possibility of this movie's potential inclusion on my Top 5 WORST Movies of 2018 list. Heh.
Here's my take on Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
This movie left me speechless, as well as smiling from ear to ear.
2018 was a great year for movies, and here's the final one that'll make the cut for consideration on my upcoming Top 10 BEST Movies of 2018 list.
Notice how I didn't mention the possibility of this movie's potential inclusion on my Top 5 WORST Movies of 2018 list. Heh.
Here's my take on Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
This movie left me speechless, as well as smiling from ear to ear.
Arguably one of the best feelings one can get when going to the cinema is that of being pleasantly surprised at how good a movie turned out to be, especially when you least expected it.
I had that experience recently with Bumblebee (2018) but for this movie, it was in a completely different realm.
To put it simply, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is one of the best and most innovative and clever animated movies I have ever seen.
I have not seen a movie this clever with the utility of its source material probably since Deadpool (2016) cracked us up silly.
Speaking of the Merc with a Mouth, that movie shared some similarities with this new Spidey film.
That similarity lies in the movie's humour. It's super meta.
Perhaps the best element of this movie's brilliant humour was how self-aware and relevant its jokes were, even to a point where it poked fun at Spidey's on lesser-glorious moments from recent adventures.
On top of that, it made fun references and nods and included some fun easter eggs which most Spidey movie fans would be able to notice.
Also, building this movie around the never-before-seen-on-the-big-screen fan favourite Miles Morales (Shameik Moore), was pure genius in line with the whole idea to make a super fresh take on the character in animated form.
Having a brand new story to tell along with introducing other fan favourites like Spider-Gwen (Hailee Steinfeld) and Kingpin (Liev Schreiber) among some other surprise additions on top of having good old Peter Parker (Jake Johnson) among the mix made for the freshest comic book movie we've had in years.
The voice cast all do a great job and there's even a certain cameo which, given the circumstances of what happened in real life, made that scene extremely emotional. I thought that was a lovely touch to include in.
Let's talk about style now, of which this movie oozes of.
Firstly, the animation style is brilliant. It's so smooth and fantastical-looking yet in some way realistic, if that makes any sense. It legitimately feels like you're watching a physical comic book playing out in front of you on the big screen.
To say this movie is visually stunning is an understatement of the highest order. It's quite literally the most beautiful animated movie I've ever seen.
The colour palette is so vast and vibrant and the animation is so stylish and slick and cool. It's a tremendous achievement for animation.
The movie is paced to absolute perfection and the 117 minutes of runtime shoot by in an instant. It's action-packed, exciting, very funny and contains such tremendous heart. It's also got a fantastic soundtrack both in terms of songs and in terms of orchestral themes and motifs. Composer Daniel Pemberton did a great job with that.
It's also a very well-directed movie and considering how it didn't have one but three directors in Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman, it's pretty impressive how they managed to maintain a consistent voice in their direction which is evidently crystal clear in the film.
Among the three, they had some truly brilliant ideas which make the movie what it is, and that's a cinematic triumph which will be remembered for a long time to come.
All in all, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was a visually-stunning love letter to and a glorious and colourful celebration of a truly beloved character.
It throws away all the typical story elements we've come to expect from a Spider-Man movie and instead addresses them in a super meta and hilarious way while at the same time doing something completely new with the character.
It's a blast, it's so stylish and it was a tremendously fun time at the cinema.
If there's any negatives to state about the movie, it's just that the opening logos were too long and too trippy with its visuals which were frankly epilepsy-inducing.
That's all. Not a single other nitpick.
Go catch this movie soon, guys. It's a triumph.
9/10.
I had that experience recently with Bumblebee (2018) but for this movie, it was in a completely different realm.
To put it simply, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is one of the best and most innovative and clever animated movies I have ever seen.
I have not seen a movie this clever with the utility of its source material probably since Deadpool (2016) cracked us up silly.
Speaking of the Merc with a Mouth, that movie shared some similarities with this new Spidey film.
That similarity lies in the movie's humour. It's super meta.
Perhaps the best element of this movie's brilliant humour was how self-aware and relevant its jokes were, even to a point where it poked fun at Spidey's on lesser-glorious moments from recent adventures.
On top of that, it made fun references and nods and included some fun easter eggs which most Spidey movie fans would be able to notice.
Also, building this movie around the never-before-seen-on-the-big-screen fan favourite Miles Morales (Shameik Moore), was pure genius in line with the whole idea to make a super fresh take on the character in animated form.
Having a brand new story to tell along with introducing other fan favourites like Spider-Gwen (Hailee Steinfeld) and Kingpin (Liev Schreiber) among some other surprise additions on top of having good old Peter Parker (Jake Johnson) among the mix made for the freshest comic book movie we've had in years.
The voice cast all do a great job and there's even a certain cameo which, given the circumstances of what happened in real life, made that scene extremely emotional. I thought that was a lovely touch to include in.
Let's talk about style now, of which this movie oozes of.
Firstly, the animation style is brilliant. It's so smooth and fantastical-looking yet in some way realistic, if that makes any sense. It legitimately feels like you're watching a physical comic book playing out in front of you on the big screen.
To say this movie is visually stunning is an understatement of the highest order. It's quite literally the most beautiful animated movie I've ever seen.
The colour palette is so vast and vibrant and the animation is so stylish and slick and cool. It's a tremendous achievement for animation.
The movie is paced to absolute perfection and the 117 minutes of runtime shoot by in an instant. It's action-packed, exciting, very funny and contains such tremendous heart. It's also got a fantastic soundtrack both in terms of songs and in terms of orchestral themes and motifs. Composer Daniel Pemberton did a great job with that.
It's also a very well-directed movie and considering how it didn't have one but three directors in Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman, it's pretty impressive how they managed to maintain a consistent voice in their direction which is evidently crystal clear in the film.
Among the three, they had some truly brilliant ideas which make the movie what it is, and that's a cinematic triumph which will be remembered for a long time to come.
All in all, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was a visually-stunning love letter to and a glorious and colourful celebration of a truly beloved character.
It throws away all the typical story elements we've come to expect from a Spider-Man movie and instead addresses them in a super meta and hilarious way while at the same time doing something completely new with the character.
It's a blast, it's so stylish and it was a tremendously fun time at the cinema.
If there's any negatives to state about the movie, it's just that the opening logos were too long and too trippy with its visuals which were frankly epilepsy-inducing.
That's all. Not a single other nitpick.
Go catch this movie soon, guys. It's a triumph.
9/10.
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