One of my favorite animated movies in a long time

Rating: 9/10 (4 March 2019)

Probably one of my personal favorite animated films I've seen. First things first. The animation style is utterly stunning with an incredible attention to detail. Never before has there been an animated film that looks and feels more like a comic book and it works so phenomenally well for this movie.
In addition the movie is perhaps one of the better written big budget films in a long time. It's emotional and funny, serious and lighthearted in all of the right places and unlike basically every other comic book movie ever, there's no stupidly placed jokes to ruin the emotional scenes. Bottom line: it's very tonally consistent and that makes me very happy.
The performances are all outstanding too with Shameik Moore doing an outstanding job leading the film. Jake Johnson and Hailee Steinfeld are both great too. It's well edited and shot wonderfully with some great action and an incredibly mature tone (which is personally one of my favorite things to see in a kid's movie). There's so little that seems to be without quality.
The only real thing I didn't really enjoy was the inclusion of Spider-Ham and making Spider-Man Noir a little too goofy and random for my taste. Some of their scenes are funny but overall I think the movie would've been stronger without them.
Oh and the licensed soundtrack is fantastic too with some great old school rap and hip hop. Definitely makes the film a lot more enjoyable.