Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 4K 2023 Ultra HD 2160p

Story Movie

After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man finds himself from Brooklyn to the Multiverse, where he encounters a team of Spiders protecting its very existence. While trying to deal with a new threat, Miles encounters Spiders from other universes. There comes a moment when he must decide what it means to be a hero, saving those you love most.

Review 4K Movie

Personally, I wasn't expecting anything special from the cartoon. Like those who liked 'Across Universes', I just wanted to see the continuation of Miles Morales' story, although the news that each universe will have its own style of drawing and animation in advance bribed and fueled expectations.

In every cartoon drawing and animation are the main factor, and in this cartoon each universe has its own style and, if the universe from which Miles Morales is all the same as in the previous part, then, for example, the universe from which Gwen Stacy is characterized by lower detail and weak drawing of backgrounds, but this style has its own thing - the emphasis on the color gamut, it is mostly pink and purple shades. Also periodically through colors and light is transmitted emotional state of Gwen, which in my opinion is very creative, because with such a narrative technique (Show, don't tell) to understand the emotional tone in the scene can be even without dialogues. The style of this universe is purely technically inferior to the other styles shown in the cartoon and may become the most disliked by the viewer, but as for me its narrative techniques perfectly balance the position. The rest of the styles are about on par with the universe Miles is from, all interesting, atmospheric and colorful. Like the previous installment, visually the sequel does well, bringing in even more unusual techniques and angles. The staging is incredible, the action scenes are so exciting and I even dare to say that you haven't seen it yet, and in general this phrase can be applied to many things from this project.

Since this is an animated blockbuster, if I may say so, and blockbusters in their turn are audio-visual performances, it is worth noting the soundtrack. It is here exactly as good as in the first part, the music is not knocked out of the scenes and sounds organically coexisting within them, and in some action scenes and is the cherry on the cake, and in a couple of dialog scenes works perfectly, achieving the right emotions that goosebumps.

And what about the plot? - Everything is great. Rarely movie comics and cartoons based on comics can surprise the viewer, the more sophisticated and watched, to which I include myself, but this one could. Yes, replace the characters with others who aren't Spider-Men and nothing would work, but in this case that's not a bad thing. A story like this wouldn't succeed without the local theme of the Spider-Men multiverse, better known as Spider-Verse, that's what makes it special. How many projects already exist related to the multiverse and the vast majority of them failed to realize their full potential.

Despite the fact that the theme of the multiverse is presented and works in the cartoon perfectly, it is not the most important part of it, because the arches of some characters are written here well just gorgeous, maybe in the first part of the arch Miles and was more, but in the sequel, which takes place 16 months later, it has no less weight, he has grown up, his relationship with his parents is strained, there are misunderstandings, in general, everything like a normal teenager, but Miles Morales is not a normal teenager, he is Spider-Man, and this status does not allow him to live a normal life of a teenager (and what is a normal life of a teenager? ), hence the consequences in the form of failing school, perpetual tardiness and excuses, which is what almost all Spider-Men have faced, but as the story progresses, Miles learns what it means to be Spider-Man, what they all have in common and to put it mildly, he won't be happy to find out. Dialogues between Miles and his parents is one of the pluses of the cartoon, everyone recognizes themselves in these characters, whether you are a teenager or a parent, and who is just about to become a father or mother, can even get a notebook and write something down for the future, although they remember what it is like to be a teenager.

Gwen Stacy, aka Gwen Spider-Gwen is presented already as a full-fledged second main character of the cartoon, in the first part she was only a good secondary character, about whom we learned not so much as we would like, but the sequel corrects the situation and the cartoon starts with Gwen's backstory, which is a kind of not very long prologue, for which Gwen is revealed better than in the previous cartoon. Her relationship with her father is far more intense than Miles' with his parents, the dialogues are far deeper and more touching, and the colors and lighting, again, narratively underscore this.

As for the antagonist, aka Blur, he's very simple, but also good. At first he appears to be a typical villainous loser, who looks ridiculous, moves and jokes, which can be confusing, but then something happens that doesn't happen in the vast majority of comic book movies and cartoons: the screenwriters, not without the help of artists, reveal both his character and his motivation in just a minute in a rather stylish scene, which is just bravo (they say that everything is simple). Blur doesn't have as much screen time as I would have liked, but all the scenes with him are memorable, and in terms of emotion they contrast from funny and amusing to sad, compassionate and even terrifying.

Miguel O'Hara, aka Spider-Man 2099, also has not much screen time and in general is presented more as an anti-hero, as well as Blur is revealed in a short time and his motivation is clear as white light, and after a monologue and a couple of dialogues with Miles you realize that he is right and his goals are justified. It turned out to be a very charismatic and ambiguous character.

Well, and where without fanservice, and he is a hundred percent successful here, some cameos surprised not on a joke, causing genuine delight. Also in the cartoon there are shots from previous projects about Spider-Man, which pleasantly surprised.

I love Spider-Man since childhood and it doesn't matter who is under the mask, because all versions of Spider-Men (I caught myself thinking that not everyone in Spider-Verse is human) have something in common and this theme 'What does it mean to be Spider-Man?', I repeat, appears in this cartoon, but nevertheless, all versions are different and interesting in their own way. Telling this story through Miles Morales was the right decision on the part of the studio, because there are already more than enough projects about Peter Parker.

To summarize, I want to say that this is the best project about Spider-Man, personally for me, and certainly one of the best, if objectively. The work done is tremendous and these almost 5 years of waiting was definitely worth it. For the last 17 years my favorite Spider-Man project was 'Spider-Man 2' and I never thought that something would come out that could dethrone it, but it did.