Get Outta da House Cinema 2023 - Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is the long awaited sequel to 2018's Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.

Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) / Spider-Man returns whilst Gwen Stacy / Spider-Woman takes more of the front seat this time around.

Voices by Hailee Steinfeld, Brian Tyree Henry, Luna Lauren Vélez, Jake Johnson, Jason Schwartzman, Issa Rae, Karan Soni, Daniel Kaluuya and Oscar Isaac join Shameik Moore. With a real life cameo by Childish Gambino too.

Miles goes on an adventure with Gwen Stacy / Spider-Woman across the multiverse where he meets a new team of Spider-People known as the Spider-Society, led by Miguel O' Hara / Spider-Man 2099, but comes into conflict with them over handling a new threat.

With a ridiculously long ass runtime of 140 minutes, it makes it the longest animated film ever produced by an American studio. Like it is LONG AF! It gets marked down for that!

Like the first film, featuring that Post Malone/Swae Lee song, music is back in a big way for film number two.

Metro Boomin created the original soundtrack for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.Artists featured this time around include Swae Lee, Lil Wayne, Offset, ASAP Rocky, Roisee, Future, Lil Uzi Vert, JID, James Blake, Nav, A Boogie wit da Hoodie, Ei8ht, Don Toliver, Wizkid, Beam, Toian, Coi Leray, 21 Savage, 2 Chainz, and Nas.

So some new and old talents coming together for another big soundtrack.

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse ends with a to be continued tagline. A third film, Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, is scheduled to be released on March 29, 2024.

While a female-focused spin-off film is in development. So Sony pictures alongside some Marvel folks are really cashing in on this bold, new, music fused Miles Morales Spider-Man.

However was it any good? To be honest the villain, The Spot, not that great.

The runtime was way long. Particularly when you leave being told the story is to be continued. It was a lot on a Sunday after a big night at Vivid and a wedding the day before.

If you have kids, almost 2.5 hours in the cinema may be hell or a treat.

I really thought the film was action packed, visually amazing, however the run time and some of the erratic scenes were a bit of a sensory overload. 

Maybe film three could be shorter, as action packed, whilst being quicker to the point.

3 Stars. Marked down a lot for the lengthy runtime.