Simply the best

Rating: 10/10 (9 February 2019)

The best superhero movie of the year. The best-animated film of the year. The best Spider-Man movie. This movie is fun from beginning to end and is an absolute love letter to comicbooks. Character designs are lifted from the source, most specifically the Bill Sienkiewicz-inspired Kingpin. The animation is beautiful and uniquely stylized, creating its own rules so that it serves day-to-day scenes, fantastically kinetic action sequences, or the origin stories that literally burst from the comics pages.
While "Black Panther" explores the Blackness as a core concept, Miles Morales is an Afro-Latino teenage New Yorker. The film shows his world, his parents, his uncle, and he simply is. His identity is evident in all aspects of the movie, and even as more Spiders fill the cast, there is no question who is the lead.
The movie is an origin story that doesn't feel like an origin story because so much is happening, and when the veteran Spiders begin dropping in, it creates its own dynamic. This film's vocal cast is led by actors known for on-screen roles, but whose vocal abilities serve the product. The story is strong, the action exciting, the jokes are funny and the Easter Eggs are plentiful. It is the most overall satisfying superhero experience of the year.