This still from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is CinemaGrids’ Frame of the Year.
Why Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is easily one of the best films I have seen in a long time
[No spoilers, other than general plot information.]
I saw Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse for the second time yesterday. I had first been drawn to the film’s animation style and premise, but I hadn’t expected the story to capture me the way it did. It is a joy to watch, and I found even more to love about it on a second viewing. Into the Spider-Verse follows Miles Morales (voiced by Shameik Moore), a teenager who has grown up in a New York where Spider-Man routinely saves the lives of its citizens. When Miles is bitten by a radioactive spider, he discovers that there is more than one Spider-Man—in fact, as he finds out when the Spider-people from five alternate universes are transported into his New York, a lot more than one.
What is immediately apparent from the film’s opening sequence is that the art direction of Into the Spider-Verse is fantastic. The film’s unique style evokes print comics while making full use of the flexibility of CGI, something we do not see in the animated films made by other major studios. The pride the animators take in their work is clear on the screen as well as on social media, where many of them have taken to sharing their favorite scenes on Twitter.
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