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I saw Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse yesterday
and it was SO GOOD
The animation was great, the soundtrack was great, the Spidey-People were great, there was no shoehorned-in romance, I only had to cover my ears because of secondhand embarassment once for like a minute which is not ideal but was better than that MLP movie which admittedly was also great...
In glowfic parlance, which I will absolutely use because glowfic is great and its conceit of "multiple versions of people get together and Do Stuff In The Multiverse" is fantastic, there were four definite alts (Peter Parker and Peter B. Parker, "Spider-Man" 1 and 2; Peter Parker, "Spider-Man Noir"; Peter Parker, "Gwen's dead best friend"); two possible additional alts (Peter Porker, "Spider-Ham"; Peni Parker, "Mecha-piloting anime girl Spidey"); and a couple circumstance alts (Gwen Stacy, "Spider-Woman"; Miles Morales, "Spider-Man"), though Miles is an interesting case. Also some more alt stuff which is spoilery, sOOOOOOO.....!
So Miles gets bitten early on by his radioactive spider, which glitches in the way that it turns out all things from foreign dimensions do in this multiverse, and the spider had "Alchemax" on it, so my current theory is that Miles was a deliberately engineered Spidey circumstance alt, though why anyone would want that I don't know. His world already had a Spidey! .... Although, y'know, it promptly proceeded to not, because Miles-verse!Peter dies after trying and failing to shut down Alchemax's Super Collider that can open holes between multiverses which is GREAT and VERY SUPERHERO COMICBOOKY and TOTALLY NOT SCIENTIFIC and I DON'T CARE IT'S GREAT.
Specifically Spider-Man #1 dies because the Super Collider explodes a little bit (and then.... gets put back together really fast....? eh whatever) and he's stuck under some rubble and can't run away from Kingpin's monologue and is like "you can't find what you're looking for out in the multiverse" and Kingpin is like "ANGRY SMASH" and then Peter is very dead.
Because it turns out Kingpin got caught fighting Spider-Man by his wife and probably-preteen son, and his wife was horrified and fled, taking their son, and then died in an honestly-accidental car crash, and now Kingpin wants to get them back by pulling another set from a different universe. Because that'll work out so great. (Spoiler alert: it doesn't.)
So the first running of the Super Collider screws things up a little, such that Miles's New York gets some wonky things added to it (there was this Christmas tree or something made of fire hydrants and stuff and there was a Really Great line like "I think it's a Banksy" and I laughed), and the various other Spideys get pulled into Miles's universe. Peter B. Parker is the first one we meet, a scruffy 40ish dude whose relationship with his MJ broke down and he ends up eating pizza in his sad little apartment and Totally Isn't Getting Fat No Sir and then he gets dropped into Miles's New York the day it's reported Spidey #1 just died. Also Spidey #1 is blond and Heroic and Competent and Spidey #2 is brunet and uhhhh a 40ish dude with relationship problems.
Also we meet a Gwen at Miles's new school and he ends up Spidey-sweating stuck to her hair and she gets this really cool asymmetrical haircut but is Not Pleased About It and I was like "oh cool, Miles!universe has a Gwen, cool, what'll she think of Spider-Woman?" and then we see Gwen again at Alchemax when Peter B and Miles are running away from Doc Ock and I was like "OH NO SHE'S AN INTERN FOR THE BAD GUYS" and then when Doc Ock gets the computer tower back from the Spideys Spider-Woman swings in like "you clearly need a competent woman to save your ass" which I LOVED it was GREAT mostly because it wasn't lampshaded like I just did it was just GREAT
and it turns out that the Gwen Miles met was in fact Spider-Gwen herself, literally thrown into last week by the Super Collider and following her Spidey-sense to Miles's new school and probably also Spidey-bluffing her way into an internship at Alchemax or something.
Oh!!! And I mentioned that the Spideys were being chased by Doc Ock? Yeah, this one's full name is uhhhhhhh Olivia Octavius, and she's a really excellent mad scientist of the female persuasion and I love herlesbian brain: step on my face hot evil lady and considering she put on a really good act of being "innocent scientist working for the bad guys for Pure Science Reasons" I think she may have known the Spideys were in her office trying to steal her information-and-then-computer all along. So that's another alt thing, Miles!universe has an alt of Otto Octavius who's a hot mad scientist lady and it's GREAT i LOVE HER she's AWESOME
And this movie is just. So earnest. It's a glorious romp that doesn't mock its own silly bits like some movies I could name -side-eyes Frozen YOU'RE A DISNEY MOVIE I GET IT-, and the time I had to cover my ears due to secondhand embarrassment? Yeah, that's Peter B running into Peter Prime's MJ and unloading his "I'm sorry I broke up with my you" all over her while badly pretending it's just about that bread she wants at table uhhh whatever the number was. (And then when Peter B gets back to his universe there's a scene where he goes to MJ's house with flowers and d'awwwww.)
It takes itself seriously while also not being too serious? Like, there isn't obnoxious lampshading, it's just gloriously earnest and you're pulled thoroughly along, there's "anime mecha-piloting Spidey" and "Looney Tunes Spidey" and neither of those are made fun of, they're not even lingered on, they're just... another kind of Spidey. Same with Spidey Noir, he's just another Spidey. It's GREAT and I LOVE IT and it's AWESOME
Also there was a heartwrenching subplot where it turns out Miles's Uncle Aaron is the Prowler, and he finds this out when he goes to Aaron's apartment to write him a note saying "I gotta do a thing but I dunno if I can" all vague-like, and the Prowler "breaks in" but then OOP TURNS OUT IT'S AARON and Miles is horrified and proceeds to book it the fuck out of there with the Prowler hot on his heels to Aunt May's house, and Aunt May is very not pleased when Doc Ock and the Scorpion and the Prowler and Tombstone break in and start smashing shit and baseball-bats one of them out like "I SAID TAKE IT OUTSIDE" she's great they're all great I love them all
And Miles and the Prowler go on a bit of a terrifying chase and end up on a roof and the Prowler's about to kill Miles when Miles desperately takes off his mask and the Prowler is like "...... fuck" and then Kingpin shoots him the fucker. And Miles runs off with his uncle to hide in an alleyway and they have a very sad moment and then Aaron dies and then Miles's dad (who's a cop) is like "WHAT. CORPSE. A SPIDEY. PUT YOUR HANDS UP SPIDEY" and Miles whose powerset includes turning invisible turns invisible because ahahahahah he can't deal with being a suspect in his uncle's death and being arrested by his dad NOPE BYE.
Also Miles spends most of the movie in a cheap Spidey costume which is great and adorable (Stan Lee sold it to him, haha), and then after the alt Spideys have headed off to return home and stop the Super Collider from mashing all New Yorks into a black hole and Peter B's webbed Miles to a chair because he and the other Spideys don't think Miles is ready or competent to help, Miles breaks free of the webs, heads off to Peter Prime's Spider-Cave (it's not called that but it's totally the Spider-Cave) and repaints one of the many Spidey-Suits to be the red-on-black comics fans know and love as Miles Spidey and goes to help save the day so Peter B doesn't have to stay behind to destroy the Super Collider and then die of "my atoms don't belong to this universe"itis.
And I was worried Miles and Gwen would kiss but THEY DIDN'T and I am SO GLAD because there did not need to be a romance there and it would not have subverted any stereotypical tropes for there to be a romance there and instead they are friends and it's cute and I love them.
And when the Super Collider gets into full gear it turned the battleground into a totally wacked-out kaleidoscopic acid trip of a place and it was really cool and yeah, the first couple minutes of the movie starting with the Columbia logo is an epileptic's worst nightmare so you know, be warned, and there's glitching all throughout the movie and I'm sure I'm missing seizure trigger events in this movie because I'm not epileptic I just tend to get bad headaches after watching movies (and it's totally worth it but it would have been a good idea for me to straight-up bring my bottle of painkillers so I could take some right after we left the theater but oh well).
Basically: Really Good Movie. You Should Give It A Watch Unless You Have Epilepsy In Which Case Sorry About All These Seizure-Trigger Movies I Guess (or unless you don't like rompy superhero movies in which case... surebut I don't get you). 6/5 Spiders. I Think I Might Buy Spider-Gwen: Ghost Spider Issues Now.
The animation was great, the soundtrack was great, the Spidey-People were great, there was no shoehorned-in romance, I only had to cover my ears because of secondhand embarassment once for like a minute which is not ideal but was better than that MLP movie which admittedly was also great...
In glowfic parlance, which I will absolutely use because glowfic is great and its conceit of "multiple versions of people get together and Do Stuff In The Multiverse" is fantastic, there were four definite alts (Peter Parker and Peter B. Parker, "Spider-Man" 1 and 2; Peter Parker, "Spider-Man Noir"; Peter Parker, "Gwen's dead best friend"); two possible additional alts (Peter Porker, "Spider-Ham"; Peni Parker, "Mecha-piloting anime girl Spidey"); and a couple circumstance alts (Gwen Stacy, "Spider-Woman"; Miles Morales, "Spider-Man"), though Miles is an interesting case. Also some more alt stuff which is spoilery, sOOOOOOO.....!
So Miles gets bitten early on by his radioactive spider, which glitches in the way that it turns out all things from foreign dimensions do in this multiverse, and the spider had "Alchemax" on it, so my current theory is that Miles was a deliberately engineered Spidey circumstance alt, though why anyone would want that I don't know. His world already had a Spidey! .... Although, y'know, it promptly proceeded to not, because Miles-verse!Peter dies after trying and failing to shut down Alchemax's Super Collider that can open holes between multiverses which is GREAT and VERY SUPERHERO COMICBOOKY and TOTALLY NOT SCIENTIFIC and I DON'T CARE IT'S GREAT.
Specifically Spider-Man #1 dies because the Super Collider explodes a little bit (and then.... gets put back together really fast....? eh whatever) and he's stuck under some rubble and can't run away from Kingpin's monologue and is like "you can't find what you're looking for out in the multiverse" and Kingpin is like "ANGRY SMASH" and then Peter is very dead.
Because it turns out Kingpin got caught fighting Spider-Man by his wife and probably-preteen son, and his wife was horrified and fled, taking their son, and then died in an honestly-accidental car crash, and now Kingpin wants to get them back by pulling another set from a different universe. Because that'll work out so great. (Spoiler alert: it doesn't.)
So the first running of the Super Collider screws things up a little, such that Miles's New York gets some wonky things added to it (there was this Christmas tree or something made of fire hydrants and stuff and there was a Really Great line like "I think it's a Banksy" and I laughed), and the various other Spideys get pulled into Miles's universe. Peter B. Parker is the first one we meet, a scruffy 40ish dude whose relationship with his MJ broke down and he ends up eating pizza in his sad little apartment and Totally Isn't Getting Fat No Sir and then he gets dropped into Miles's New York the day it's reported Spidey #1 just died. Also Spidey #1 is blond and Heroic and Competent and Spidey #2 is brunet and uhhhh a 40ish dude with relationship problems.
Also we meet a Gwen at Miles's new school and he ends up Spidey-sweating stuck to her hair and she gets this really cool asymmetrical haircut but is Not Pleased About It and I was like "oh cool, Miles!universe has a Gwen, cool, what'll she think of Spider-Woman?" and then we see Gwen again at Alchemax when Peter B and Miles are running away from Doc Ock and I was like "OH NO SHE'S AN INTERN FOR THE BAD GUYS" and then when Doc Ock gets the computer tower back from the Spideys Spider-Woman swings in like "you clearly need a competent woman to save your ass" which I LOVED it was GREAT mostly because it wasn't lampshaded like I just did it was just GREAT
and it turns out that the Gwen Miles met was in fact Spider-Gwen herself, literally thrown into last week by the Super Collider and following her Spidey-sense to Miles's new school and probably also Spidey-bluffing her way into an internship at Alchemax or something.
Oh!!! And I mentioned that the Spideys were being chased by Doc Ock? Yeah, this one's full name is uhhhhhhh Olivia Octavius, and she's a really excellent mad scientist of the female persuasion and I love her
And this movie is just. So earnest. It's a glorious romp that doesn't mock its own silly bits like some movies I could name -side-eyes Frozen YOU'RE A DISNEY MOVIE I GET IT-, and the time I had to cover my ears due to secondhand embarrassment? Yeah, that's Peter B running into Peter Prime's MJ and unloading his "I'm sorry I broke up with my you" all over her while badly pretending it's just about that bread she wants at table uhhh whatever the number was. (And then when Peter B gets back to his universe there's a scene where he goes to MJ's house with flowers and d'awwwww.)
It takes itself seriously while also not being too serious? Like, there isn't obnoxious lampshading, it's just gloriously earnest and you're pulled thoroughly along, there's "anime mecha-piloting Spidey" and "Looney Tunes Spidey" and neither of those are made fun of, they're not even lingered on, they're just... another kind of Spidey. Same with Spidey Noir, he's just another Spidey. It's GREAT and I LOVE IT and it's AWESOME
Also there was a heartwrenching subplot where it turns out Miles's Uncle Aaron is the Prowler, and he finds this out when he goes to Aaron's apartment to write him a note saying "I gotta do a thing but I dunno if I can" all vague-like, and the Prowler "breaks in" but then OOP TURNS OUT IT'S AARON and Miles is horrified and proceeds to book it the fuck out of there with the Prowler hot on his heels to Aunt May's house, and Aunt May is very not pleased when Doc Ock and the Scorpion and the Prowler and Tombstone break in and start smashing shit and baseball-bats one of them out like "I SAID TAKE IT OUTSIDE" she's great they're all great I love them all
And Miles and the Prowler go on a bit of a terrifying chase and end up on a roof and the Prowler's about to kill Miles when Miles desperately takes off his mask and the Prowler is like "...... fuck" and then Kingpin shoots him the fucker. And Miles runs off with his uncle to hide in an alleyway and they have a very sad moment and then Aaron dies and then Miles's dad (who's a cop) is like "WHAT. CORPSE. A SPIDEY. PUT YOUR HANDS UP SPIDEY" and Miles whose powerset includes turning invisible turns invisible because ahahahahah he can't deal with being a suspect in his uncle's death and being arrested by his dad NOPE BYE.
Also Miles spends most of the movie in a cheap Spidey costume which is great and adorable (Stan Lee sold it to him, haha), and then after the alt Spideys have headed off to return home and stop the Super Collider from mashing all New Yorks into a black hole and Peter B's webbed Miles to a chair because he and the other Spideys don't think Miles is ready or competent to help, Miles breaks free of the webs, heads off to Peter Prime's Spider-Cave (it's not called that but it's totally the Spider-Cave) and repaints one of the many Spidey-Suits to be the red-on-black comics fans know and love as Miles Spidey and goes to help save the day so Peter B doesn't have to stay behind to destroy the Super Collider and then die of "my atoms don't belong to this universe"itis.
And I was worried Miles and Gwen would kiss but THEY DIDN'T and I am SO GLAD because there did not need to be a romance there and it would not have subverted any stereotypical tropes for there to be a romance there and instead they are friends and it's cute and I love them.
And when the Super Collider gets into full gear it turned the battleground into a totally wacked-out kaleidoscopic acid trip of a place and it was really cool and yeah, the first couple minutes of the movie starting with the Columbia logo is an epileptic's worst nightmare so you know, be warned, and there's glitching all throughout the movie and I'm sure I'm missing seizure trigger events in this movie because I'm not epileptic I just tend to get bad headaches after watching movies (and it's totally worth it but it would have been a good idea for me to straight-up bring my bottle of painkillers so I could take some right after we left the theater but oh well).
Basically: Really Good Movie. You Should Give It A Watch Unless You Have Epilepsy In Which Case Sorry About All These Seizure-Trigger Movies I Guess (or unless you don't like rompy superhero movies in which case... sure