Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 4K 2023 2160p WEB-DL

Miles Morales successfully wears superhero tights and saves New York from criminals. But the burden of the savior sometimes prevents the guy from being realized in life, so there is tension in the family of Spider-Man. The situation worsens when the hero encounters the Blur, and even more so when Morales' beloved drummer Gwen Stacy returns from another world and takes him on a new adventure.

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 4K Review
Miles Morales' dizzying arachnid takes it to the next level -- more action, more spiders, and more comic relief.

Miles Morales successfully wears superhero tights and saves New York from criminals. But the burden of the savior sometimes prevents the guy to realize in life, so there is tension in the family of Spider-Man. The situation is aggravated when the hero encounters the Blur, and even stronger -- when Morales' beloved, drummer Gwen Stacy, returns from another world and takes the spider into a new adventure.

The most exciting revision of superheroics has arrived from where no one expected. While Marvel was pompously introducing the movie Spider-Man, Sony Pictures released its radioactive mutant in 2018, an animated film that instantly became the flagship of the genre. So from a dark horse, "Across Universes" went from being a dark horse to the premier spider performance on screen. The cartoon seemed to complete the twenty-year cycle of comic-book adaptations, bringing them back to the autochthonous land: from realistic movies back to the pathos of colorful glossy pictures, where heroes and villains participate in a real titanomachy. Everything around sparkled, was in constant dynamics and dizzying pace, not giving a second to rest, moreover - even for a sane explanation of why the universe of your favorite superhero, for example, has come so far. Here, animated Spider-Man didn't have enough of New York: he went looking for himself in new places, bypassing underground tunnels and skyscraper spires. We've learned that 15-year-old Miles Morales, as well as his talented screenwriters, prefers adventures in the multiverse - the perfect place to gather arachnids of all stripes.

The sequel expectedly raised the stakes - since there are hundreds of thousands of species of spiders in nature, why not to grow here: the cute team from the first film, which in addition to Morales included the anime version of Penny Parker, comical animal Spider-Pig, frumpy Parker and the highlight of the number - noir Spider-Man from the 30's, was replaced by a whole army. From the predatory fauna created in the interdimensional web, naturally scattered eyes: Here and brutal Spider-Man 2099 in a stylish outfit (Oscar Isaac's voiceover is attached), and the drummer Gwen Stacy, who became on the heroic path, and pregnant Spider-Woman, and even punk Spider-Man in the spirit of the Sex Pistols, not to mention the absolutely stunning output of the Indian version of Peter Parker - Pavitra Prabhakar, who rides the web on the futuristic Mumbai. The directorial trio of the animated film - Joaquin Dos Santos, Camp Powers and Justin Thompson (for comicality's sake, they can also be presented as three different spiders) - has already definitely entered the annals of superheroics: they finally turned the cartoon universe from a fashionable thing and cotton candy for fandom into a kind of narrative move. The authors are not only masters of revision (such a "Spider", they say, you have not seen), but also bad anarchists, trying to electrify the tape from all ends: something here lives according to the laws of cinema, especially in terms of composition and in-frame editing, something purely repeats the grammar of the comic book, whether it is color flashes or a whole language of heroic poses, and something and reminds of some zoetrope - because the movement of images twisted in a ring, and is the reason why the effect of the movie happens to us.

There's some primal attraction charm in this spider atavism, a chiseled graphic frenzy that sees two hours of noshing through portals, handing out blows, blowing webs and running through all color spectrums. The conversation between "Web of the Universe" and the audience is only in the language of redundancy and polymorphism, in coding the cartoon with secondary samples of comics and cartoons - there's plenty of pastiche, mockumentary, and stylistic gamesmanship that run a line from the ridiculous '70s Spidey animated series to imitation comic book singles, glossy supercrossovers, and video games. The style of the second "Spidey" is all styles connected through tacky spider fibers.

This time around, a few things are different: there's an order of magnitude more lyrical digressions, Gwen Stacy has a central character and conflict not unlike Morales' spider problems, and there are even more neon flashes in the frame, except now this riot of colors is set in Spider-Man headquarters. Watching a friendly superhero wreak havoc in a supermarket while battling the Blur is, of course, many times more interesting than running through the same growing-up drama about superhero responsibility and the cost of becoming one. But for nuance and protracted timing, "Web of Universes" is a veritable flood of creativity, punk rock from the comic book world, powered by a steady diet and respect for graphic culture, from Renaissance sketches to Jack Kirby's iconic imagery.