Instead, what’s impressive about Across the Spider-Verse is how it challenges the essential structure of a superhero narrative.Īudiences are probably painfully aware of Spider-Man’s character beats by now. The story is part two of a three-film arc-the next edition is slated for release in spring 2024-so don’t go in expecting a neatly tied-up conclusion. So what possible new depths can that movie’s sequel, titled Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, plumb? The epic picks back up with teen hero Miles Morales (voiced by Shameik Moore), who travels across realities with five other Spideys, who are all connected through their shared insectoid prowess. Yet no character is more conversant in the metaphysical and narrative implications of the multiverse than Spider-Man, who has been hopping through portals for years, both in the live-action film No Way Home and in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, an animated delight that pushed every limit of the medium to smoosh seven very different spider-stars into one adventure. Films about extra-dimensional travel and parallel versions of ourselves aren’t restricted to the realm of comic-book nerdery the reigning Best Picture winner at the hoary Oscars is all about “verse-jumping,” after all. Multiverses are, at this point, familiar ground for Hollywood.
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