{"id":22481,"date":"2019-01-07T22:39:13","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T12:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=22481"},"modified":"2019-01-31T22:47:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T12:47:58","slug":"spider-man-into-the-spider-verse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=22481","title":{"rendered":"Spider-man: Into The Spider-Verse"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Directors:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey
\nWriters:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Phil Lord, Rodney Rothman
\nCast:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Jake Johnson, Lily Tomlin, Zoe Kravitz, Nicolas Cage, Liev Schreiber<\/p>\nT<\/span>here are only two major animation studios in Hollywood – Disney\/Pixar and Dreamworks \u2013 and both are a model of consistency when it comes to their art direction.<\/p>\n

So unless you\u2019ve specifically made time to watch the likes of Red Turtle<\/em> or My Life As a Zucchini<\/em> at your local independent cinema, chances are you\u2019ve basically seen the same two animated art styles on the big screen for years, possibly decades<\/em>.\u00a0 The same character models, the same colour palette, the same CGI backdrops, that same Dreamworks smirk.<\/p>\n

And of course that\u2019s what makes Spider-man: Into the Spider-Verse<\/em> so damn interesting.\u00a0 It looks spectacular <\/em>(pun intended).\u00a0 It is a visually arresting film that immediately grabs your attention and doesn\u2019t let go for the full ninety minutes.\u00a0 The art style is stylish and distinctive.\u00a0 The pop-art cinematography and bombastic editing techniques catch the eye.\u00a0 And the wildly creative dimension-warping storyline means that the illustrators constantly have something strange and wonderful to toss at the screen \u2013 like a black and white noir Spider-man, an anime girl with her robot companion or a pig in a Spider-man costume.<\/p>\n

What came as a pleasant surprise to me is that the art-style for Into the Spider-Verse <\/em>is full of flair but it was also made with purpose and care.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t get exhausted by the trippy visuals or fast multi-paneled edits and cuts because the film makers paced themselves and knew to occasionally let a scene breathe for a moment before dialing up the speed to 100 again.<\/p>\n

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Marvel\u2019s Spider-man<\/em> and Spider-man: Homecoming<\/em> have nodded and winked at the wider Spider-man universe but Into the Spider-Verse<\/em> is the first time Marvel has actually showcased Miles Morales front and centre as the lead character.\u00a0 It\u2019s the perfect time.\u00a0 The radically creative visuals combined with a new kid in the Spidey suit (replacing over fifty years of Peter Parker) really make Into the Spider-Verse<\/em> stand out as something fresh and unique.<\/p>\n

Although the hyper-kinetic visuals will be the talking point for anyone who watches Into the Spider-Verse<\/em>, I think credit should also go to the writers and directors for also putting together an entertaining tale that delivers plenty of gags and is full of heart (perhaps not surprising since its penned by The Lego Movie<\/em> guys).\u00a0 The narrative arc that Miles takes as he fulfills his potential as Spider-man is obviously well worn territory so its up to the writers to make his interactions with his police officer dad and with a washed up, aging Peter Parker feel like they mean<\/em> something.\u00a0 To their credit, I think Lorde and Miller accomplish precisely that.<\/p>\n

Into the Spider-Verse<\/em> makes the Spider-man universe feel full of untapped potential.\u00a0 I think plenty of people will come away from this film thinking there\u2019s no good reason why Spider-Gwen or Spider-man Noir couldn\u2019t have their own movie too.\u00a0 It has received incredibly positive word of mouth as well as a deserved Oscar nomination for Best Animated picture.<\/p>\n

Into the Spider-Verse<\/em> is a great film in its own right but hopefully its larger legacy is that encourages Hollywood to try their hand at producing more diverse-looking animated films.\u00a0 Films like The Incredibles 2<\/em> and Ralph Breaks The Internet<\/em> are all well and good but if you knew films could look and move like Spider-man: Into the Spider-Verse<\/em>, why would you want to go back?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Teen Miles Morales becomes Spider-Man of his reality, crossing his path with five counterparts from other dimensions to stop a threat for all realities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":22483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2826,2440,2827,874,835,54,2828],"class_list":["post-22481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-films","tag-hailee-steinfeld","tag-liev-schreiber","tag-lily-tomlin","tag-marvel","tag-nicolas-cage","tag-spider-man","tag-zoe-kravitz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22481"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22487,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22481\/revisions\/22487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}