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Saw the movie today. Went in completely blind, not even realizing it was a two parter. The animation style is stunningly gorgeous and unique. Just by aesthetics alone, it was a complete joy to watch. The use of colour was fantastic, including being a perhaps subtle hint that Miles wasn't in his own universe.
The plot was fantastic. Full of the usual Spider-man quips that make his movies fun, yet also extremely touching (Gwen's moments with her dad in particular). I wasn't sure how they'd top the team of Spider-people from the first movie, but somehow they did it (with a whole freaking tower full of Spider-people).
The music was also fantastic. I'm gonna lookup a playlist for work tomorrow because there was a lot of bangers that were unfamiliar to me.
My only complaint is the lack of closure due to the "to be continued" ending. The chemistry between Miles and Gwen is great and has me excited for the sequel.
Honourable mention to the daughter of Peter B -- she's adorable.
This movie was an interesting feeling for me. I loved every second of it, especially the visuals. Miles escaping the spider society was incredible. The fight with Spot at the begging was hilarious.
But I had two pieces of “commentary” on the film.
The first: they positioned Miles as this outside to the spider-verse for wanting to save his dad, but Holland’s Peter (connected by both Glover and Miguel’s mention of earth 199999) also ignored multiverse rules with how he dealt with the villains in No Way Home. All the live action spider men actually participated in that, so why is it a problem for Miles?
The second is the pacing: really wish I had known it was a part 1. The entire movie felt like an intro, not in a bad way, but in a “how the hell are they going to wrap all of this up?!” As the movie was going on. The theater I was in audibly groaned when to be continued popped up on the screen.
Well, the rules for the multiverse between the Spiderverse movies and the MCU seem to differ despite being the same, this is a plot hole to be solved, on the MCU we have people from alternative universes staying long-term with no damage to it all, in the Spiderverse they have "canon" which threatens it all, there was no such thing on the MCU.
I hope they explain away the divergence.
Kind of... there's incursions, which the Illuminati from Multiverse of Madness warned Strange about and captured him to avoid. The only one that wasn't really causing problems hoping multiverses was America - who has powers specifically related to it and was described as a nexus being IIRC.
I wonder if you'd describe Miguel's situation where he replaced the dead version of himself and the universe collapsed an incursion? If so, I think it lines up.
My thoughts were way more about how Miles is imprisoned for wanting to save his dad and prevent a canon event, while MCU Peter was an off-the-cuff mention of something Miguel had to clean up when he clearly prevented multiple canon events for the other live action Spidermen.