True believers, here's a love letter for you. The quintessential portrayal of what it means to be Spider-Man. Anybody can be Spider-Man.

Rating: 10/10 (12 May 2020)

2018 was the "Spider-Year" due to the arrival of two critically acclaimed media like this movie, the Marvel's Spider-man PS4 game and even the arrival of Avengers' Infinity War. It was the year were every normal and diehard fan of Spider-man was delighted with stories that not only respected the source material but modernised it not only in plot but also in style.
It's hard to point out the good things in this movie because it basically is a perfect picture for its genres. It's an incredible ground-breaking animated feature with jaw-dropping 2D/3D effects blend and a comic-pop art style that serves as basis of every little nuanced and subtle animation cue. It's an incredible story because, despit its whacky premise and supporting characters, it still tells a story that's relatable and well-realised. It's a faithful Spider-man story because while it make new choices regarding main protagonists and supporting characters that only comic book fans would know about, it still manages to tell a story about identity, about self-confidence, about acceptance and doing the right thing without being overwhelming.
The balance of tone, plot flow/pace, character arcs and action is so perfect that it leaves little to no room for mistakes. The quips land every time with a fresh and grounded comedic timing and jokes that never get tired because it's at the expense of the unbelievable scenarios presented. The city of New York is mesmerizingly well-realised and vibrant with an urban touch that matches the main character upbringing spectacularly well. No sequence is a waste, all of them serve a purpose to either the story or the character growth, from the school classes to the villain conversations. Going one by one would take an entire essay compiling from the very small details in the animation technique to the outstanding double entendres of many jokes and plot points.
However, it's worth mentioning that it is commendable not only the animation but the writting in this movie. Not only is the story self-aware and engaging but it's loyalty to not a single unique piece of source material but rather a mash-up of many different bits of the old and new Spider-man comics to create an entire new story that pays homage to past Spider-man movies and Tv shows as well as provide a very SPider-man-like story through another character that is based on a comic, is really honoring. The issues with recent Spider-man films were that despite how the core of the character and his world was well captured, the modifications to the characters and many of the quirks took the fans out of it and made them see through a different lense of "acceptance" but already seeing it as yet another interpretation of Spider-man. THis movie broke everything, it didn't give an interpretation it capture the most authentic Spider-man interpretation of not only Peter Parker's version but also the image there was of him as well as his failures while still introducing new characters in the most wholesome way. This movie pathed the legacy of Spider-man, it took aside its main character and the tired trope of seeing him learn from his uncle's death to see the same sort of message through a different character.
IN CONCLUSION, if your are a fan of animation here you'll find an outstanding stylised aesthetic worth analysing, if you are also a Spider-man fan you'll find new characters and a uniquely sefl-contained adaptation of a Spider-Man comic, all in all, a faithful-to-the-bone portrayal of what reading a Spider-man comic book feels like. As a diehard Spider-Man fan... You are in for a treat, a love letter from the writters, animators and comic book figures from Marvel that got involved in the project. This movie is not Sony doing Spider-man, is the creators, is Stan Lee, is everyone that ever cared for the old and the new Spider-man crafting a new, refreshing, aesthetically enhancing tale of a yet another kid like Spider-man that wants to follow his steps but also needs to find out who he is. Anybody can be Spider-man.