Review: Does Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Live Up to the standards? We say yes!

Rating: 9/10 (11 December 2018)

A few weeks ago, I was confronted with the opportunity to attend an early screening of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse courtesy of Sony. After watching the movie, I found that it had actually succeeded my expectations by a landslide. Right now (December 10th, 2018) there are 95 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and only one of them is a rotten review; Here at Imagine Studios, we have decided the movie was not only good, but GREAT!
Sony Pictures Animation somehow found a way to combine 3D looking graphics with comics and not completely disorient the viewer. This animation style is so unique and new that I don't think I've ever seen anything like this in any other movie. If you were to look at a single frame picked at random from the movie, it would look like a still image from a comic, but if you put many frames of it together, it seems animated just perfectly enough.
The soundtrack contains many songs from some more... new (let's just say that) artists. Rap music is mixed with cinematic action movie music to create an almost great soundtrack. The new soundtrack seems to be aiming towards younger people who listen to artists like Post Malone. Although the soundtrack could have done without the Rap music in my opinion, it is crucial towards developing Miles Morales as a young adult in the movie. Miles uses Post Malone's song "Sunflower" to calm down when he feels stressed out or scared and often times we can see him wearing his headphones and humming along to it.
The movie is full of variety of jokes. Some of them can be understood by everyone, and others can only be understood by us true Marvel's Spider-Man fans. References to other movies and shows are hidden all over the place and they give people a reason to watch it again when it comes out on digital or dvd so they can hunt out all of the little easter eggs.
Regardless of the PG rating, I truly enjoyed this movie. People of all ages would be able to come watch the movie and still feel entertained. The movie's runtime is two hours and to be honest, I would've sat through it if it went on for longer. I wanted to see the Spider-Mans/Women swinging around more, it just gave me that feeling of satisfaction.
The trailers really tricked me; some of the plot elements hit me out of nowhere. I like it when movie studios completely mis-lead you with there trailers and show you something you never saw coming.
All of the characters play a crucial role to the plot and I can't imagine the movie without even one of them. There are many different characters who all play as a father figure to Miles and they help him learn what the true meaning of being Spider-Man, or any hero in that sense, really is.
Once again, thanks to Sony Pictures for inviting me to the early screening of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Thanks for reading my review -Nico.