Thursday, December 20, 2018

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

Director(s): Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey. Voices: Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld, Mahershala Ali, Lily Tomlin, Zoë Kravitz, Nicolas Cage, Liev Schreiber, Chris Pine. 117 min. Rated PG. Animation.

A Spider-man with a Black dad and a Latino mom - so via animation, we're already setting up examples to expand the Hollywood hero territory into minority domain; namely, preparing the audience for a gay superhero someday, or even, a Jane Bond. But the fact that Spider-man is a dark-skinned teenage superhero here isn't just a device for political-correctness; this is a spectacularly dazzling animation that seamlessly blends African-American culture into the superhero genre. I rarely recommend a movie to be seen in 3D, but this is one of them. 

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