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Recipient of the Academy Award® for Best Animated Feature, INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE chronicles the adventures of Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) — an artistic teenage boy from Brooklyn who worries he will never live up to the accomplishments of his father. In an effort to lift his spirits, Miles’ affectionate uncle Aaron Davis (Mahershala Ali) takes him to an abandoned subway station to do some graffiti. But when a radioactive spider bites Miles and leaves him with strange new superpowers, his life is catapulted into chaos — as various versions of the infamous Spider-Man start swinging across the multiverse due to a malfunctioning particle collider built by the evil Kingpin. Can Miles learn to embrace all aspects of his identity, both old and new, to defeat Kingpin and restore order to the universe?
“This is an inclusive, diverse, multi-level, multi-layered, funny, warm, cool, richly detailed, lovingly rendered, friendly neighborhood instant classic.” —Richard Roeper, Chicago Tribune (Dec 11, 2018) “Right from the off, this is a Spider-Man wholly distinct from the live-action vintage, in every possible sense…. This is not a cheap Saturday-morning kids’ cartoon: it’s a gorgeously realised alternative world, dripping with invention and energetic action that explodes from the screen. Frankly, it’s like nothing we’ve ever seen before.” —John Nugent, Empire Magazine (Nov 29, 2018) “There’s never been anything like this animated exaltation of the Spider-Man canon. The animation is glorious, and more faithful to its comic-book roots than any big-screen graphics in the past. The story is deliciously witty and preposterously complex, but perfectly comprehensible, whether or not you have studied quantum physics. The scale feels vast, yet the spirit is joyous. It’s as if everyone had set out to make the best Spider-Man movie ever, which is exactly what they’ve done.” —Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal (Dec 14, 2018)
