Review of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) by Liamexe — 04 Jun 2023

Its storytelling is enormous and imposing, making it difficult for you to keep up with the complex, frequently contrasted structure. It's barbarically inventive and delightfully entertaining. But as they say, you can never have too much of a good thing.

The style is distracting, the plot succumbs to abrupt tonal shifts, the structure is brutalised by never-ending humour, and the creativity is clueless about when it has crossed the line into the silly-verse.

Among the random vignettes, it's difficult to not imagine a cleaner, more edited movie. Nevertheless, this admirably isn't even close to being a catastrophe. This sequel is actually quite well done, very entertaining, and frequently moving.

building indefinitely through exposition and naturally occurring narrative turns.