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Spider-Man is Marvel’s most
popular superhero for a good
reason. The geeky teenager-
turned-friendly neighbourhood
crimefighter really is relatable. He
worries about girls and homework
as much as he does about saving
the city. He isn’t a cocky billionaire
inventor who built himself an iron
suit; or a neurotic billionairevigilante who dresses up as a bat,
for that matter. He happened to get
bitten by a radioactive spider. He
could be anyone.
This dazzling, Oscar-winning
animated movie takes that notion
and runs with it. The first surprise
is a fresh hero in the shape of
Afro-Hispanic Brooklyn teenager
Miles Morales (voiced by Shameik
Moore), who has his own
encounter with a radioactive spider.
Sure enough, the spider’s bite gives
him Spider-Man-like superpowers.He also has an encounter with
the ‘real’ Spider-Man (Chris Pine),
here older and wearier than the
version we’re accustomed to, and
hard at work trying to foil plans
by super-villain Kingpin (Liev
Schreiber) to access parallel
universes by means of a giant
particle accelerator.
But the super-collider unleashes
a bunch of other web-slingers
from alternative dimensions,
notably a jaded, run-to-seed
Spider-Man (Jake Johnson),Spider-Woman, aka Miles’s
schoolmate Gwen Stacy (Hailee
Steinfeld), Japanese-American
schoolgirl Peni Parker (Kimiko
Glenn), a hard-bitten Spider-Man
Noir (Nicolas Cage), and even a
porcine hero, Spider-Ham (John
Mulaney) – each of them brought
to the screen with their own
distinctive style of animation.
The film zips along, playfully
amusing, visually ingenious, and
as readily engaging as the hero at
its heart. 2018, PG, 117MINANIMATED ADVENTURE
Friday, Sky Premiere HD, 12.10pm &
8pm; Sky Action HD, 10pm 4You miss one
Spider-Man, and
then a whole host
come along at oncePRE
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Spider-Man:
Into the Spider-Verse