Spider-Verse

A published review of my artifact was found on the Robert Ebert website, which is an article entitled “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” by Christy Lemire. In her review of the film, Lemire notes that the film’s comic book imagery creates a “wonderfully tippy, dreamlike quality about it”. Reading this portion of the review aligns with what I thought when various comic book elements were incorporated within the film. She also discusses how the filmmakers breathed new life into a comic book movie. This resonates with my belief that this film is a completely new take on super hero films. In making this point, Lemire mentioned that there are handful of Marvel films released every year and that there is no shortage of Spider-Man films. Reading this part of the critique made me think of how the different types of Spider-Man and references of previous films are seen throughout the movie.
In this article, the author also described the film as “dizzying”. When watching the film, I must admit that I did not find it dizzy at all. While it was confusing at times to keep track of what was going on, the entertainment of the film kept me hooked to the screen. An interesting point that stood out to me in this critique was when Lemire wrote, “And we come to care about them because they’re not cogs in a massive machinery where the fate of the entire universe hangs in the balance, as is so often the case in behemoth comic-book blockbusters.” Reading this reminded me why I stopped watching comic book movies in the first place, they are far too predictable, but that is not the case in this film.