Interestingly, I saw this on my way to IMDb50 list. This currently features at 26th position on that. I thoroughly enjoyed the first one. It was fresh, quirky and something unexpected in the superhero genre. The second builds upon the set stage but doesn't bring anything truly groundbreaking and ends on a cliffhanger.
Miles is reminiscing about his interactions with the spider-verse and specifically Gwen. He is going through the motions of friendly-neighbourhood crime fighting, and then the portals of the spider verse are open again to reveal how deep, ah.. convoluted the spider webs go. A new villain appears on the spot.
I enjoyed the development of this new villain. He tears the fabric of space-time and becomes a major antagonist but from the way his arc developed was great to watch.
While I liked the fast-paced action, it did not feel fresh enough this time around. Probably the first instalment where I was not expecting how bedazzling the whole thing could be. For the second I was expecting something newer, which was naturally harder to get. That is the problem with franchises. Invariably, it feels like they are milking it. Reminds me of James Cameron's second Avatar It looked brilliant, but there was nothing particularly new in it, not the story, nor the characters.
With this frenzied animation, there is always something happening on some corner of the screen. The movie makers take days or probably months to perfect the frames which pass in front of our eyes in under a second. This is an unfair advantage, in the sense that you can not truly give justice to the overwhelming amount of changes happening in the frame. Compare that with something like The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) where each shot has a maximum of two characters and each of them takes enough time to bring you with them. The clever trickery of speed is hence just that, a trick. It does not let you linger as something or the other is constantly thrown in front of you.
It is still a speedy, energetic and enjoyable watch. Don't expect the usual scales of an IMDb50 then you'd be fine.
Review by SolBlockedParent2023-11-24T18:25:32Z
Interestingly, I saw this on my way to IMDb50 list. This currently features at 26th position on that. I thoroughly enjoyed the first one. It was fresh, quirky and something unexpected in the superhero genre. The second builds upon the set stage but doesn't bring anything truly groundbreaking and ends on a cliffhanger.
Miles is reminiscing about his interactions with the spider-verse and specifically Gwen. He is going through the motions of friendly-neighbourhood crime fighting, and then the portals of the spider verse are open again to reveal how deep, ah.. convoluted the spider webs go. A new villain appears on the spot.
I enjoyed the development of this new villain. He tears the fabric of space-time and becomes a major antagonist but from the way his arc developed was great to watch.
While I liked the fast-paced action, it did not feel fresh enough this time around. Probably the first instalment where I was not expecting how bedazzling the whole thing could be. For the second I was expecting something newer, which was naturally harder to get. That is the problem with franchises. Invariably, it feels like they are milking it. Reminds me of James Cameron's second Avatar It looked brilliant, but there was nothing particularly new in it, not the story, nor the characters.
With this frenzied animation, there is always something happening on some corner of the screen. The movie makers take days or probably months to perfect the frames which pass in front of our eyes in under a second. This is an unfair advantage, in the sense that you can not truly give justice to the overwhelming amount of changes happening in the frame. Compare that with something like The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) where each shot has a maximum of two characters and each of them takes enough time to bring you with them. The clever trickery of speed is hence just that, a trick. It does not let you linger as something or the other is constantly thrown in front of you.
It is still a speedy, energetic and enjoyable watch. Don't expect the usual scales of an IMDb50 then you'd be fine.