Rest Easy Knowing ‘Spider-Man: Into the SpiderVerse’ Does Miles Morales Solid Justice

With the passing of the great Stan Lee, it only feels appropriate that the first Marvel movie to hit the theaters would feature his most iconic creation. Luckily, you know exactly how amazing this movie is going to be within the first 10 seconds. We open with Miles chillin’ in his room listening to a new bop doin’ the whole sing-every-5-words and hum the rest like you know the lyrics thing, and it’s just the most chilled out, relatable opening you could ask for. The slightest details can make or break a movie, but you can’t imagine how man Easter eggs and callbacks they scatter throughout this 2 hour Spidey fest. Off the rip, you’ll notice a completely unique and eye-popping animation style. Spider-Man: Into the SpiderVerse is literally, a comic book in movie form. It took about 5 minutes to adjust to the newness, but once I got my bearings, the colors, characters, and craziness all fit together perfectly and I was left to revel at this new world teeming with excellence and color. Miles Morales is given a proper Spider-Man origin story, while setting up the multiverse predicament the movie is based on. While they’re cookin’ up the meat and potatoes, we’re blessed with gems of brilliantly written dialogue about the socioeconomic status of the hood and how that looks and feels through the eyes of a Latinx teen. The continued rise of coffee shops in Brooklyn signal gentrification that is systemically pushing out decades-old residents at a seemingly inevitable rate. The placement…