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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)

Download Edit (3.7 GB) Edited Reaction Alongside the regular multi-part full, you now have the option of watching an edited version of the full movie reaction with 10-15mins of Picture-in-Picture. You can watch this edit

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Ryan

Boy, Jack Quaid's 2023 may be one of the best years an actor has ever had. Across the Spider-Verse, My Adventures with Superman, Oppenheimer, Lower Decks Season 4, and a live action guest role as his Lower Decks character in Strange New Worlds. And if you want to count it, flashbacks of his Scream 5 role in 6.

Thomas Corp

I feel like, like the first film, this was a trifle oversold to me. Nothing in it is bad, don’t get me wrong. I get why everybody seems to adore these Spiderverse movies. I think my brain is too cross wired for the animation style, which feels like exceptionally strong drug flashbacks; it’s like being thrown into a Hunter S. Thompson novel. It is a relief that this film eased up a mite on the head splitting soundtrack. The song selections, that is, not necessarily the score, though that’s more me and my music tastes are such that they are VASTLY out of the ordinary for someone my age. I swear I am an old man before my time. Of course, you loved both the animation and the music, so once again, I’m out of it, clearly. I am happy to see you most enjoyed the film, Jess. I’m with you on being very intrigued by the Spot. Jason Schwartzman was quite good in the role. The character felt like Syndrome meets Joker with an inverse of the usual but for me, it was Tuesday trope. His look recalled Harlan Ellison’s And I Must Scream, which was neat. I quite like hearing you say he might be your favorite Spider-Man villain. And you know me, Jess, I’m not going to complain when you are living for a villain, and I agree with you on not wanting him to kill Miles’s dad. I love how you continue to love Miles’s parents. Again, I’m with you not wanting the dad to die. Likewise, I loved your thoughts and observations of Gwen and Captain Stacy’s plotline. As I understand it, one of the central talking points of the film is the moral conundrum of Miles having the understandable and relatable desire to save his dad versus the Spidey Society in general and Miguel in particular being opposed to that for the greater good of the multiverse. I like that it’s not entirely cut and dried. Like you said, there is the annoyance of Miles being yelled at, “You did this!” when my thought is, “Didn’t cross anyone’s mind to maybe let him on that?” though Gwen admits to hesitation on that. And Miguel does have a valid reason for his actions on paper. Where the Spidey Society slightly loses me is they seem to be dealing in one too many absolutes. In that they jump to the conclusion that it’s because of Miles that the universe is collapsing, not bothering to speculate about a hypothesis that Spot turning the universe into a slice of Swiss might have something to do with it. It feels like most of most of the Spidey Society is subscribing to like Varga said in Fargo, “We see what we believe, not the other way around.” You know, like it’s said in The Usual Suspects, “To a cop, the explanation is never that complicated. It’s always simple. There’s no mystery to the street, no arch criminal behind it all. If you got a dead body, and you think his brother did it, you’re going to find out you’re right.” I liked how you had the approach of seeing both sides, and then when Miguel’s cheese slid off his cracker, how you became slightly done with him. Hell of a cliffhanger to end on, which will lead to the third film, which I am unable to confirm nor deny about it being the final Spiderverse film, though I surmise that it is the final part of this arc if nothing else. I loved all your reactions to the cliffhanger. Said cliffhanger having the only appearance of Spider-Man Noir in this, which made me yell, “Where the FUCK has he been this whole movie!?” He was the best member of the Spidey gang from the last movie. He was also the most relatable as a matter of fact. Now to the best part of the reaction: Betty-Spidey. Upon seeing Betty-Spidey, I had a Sam Neill type reaction, and I said, “A T-Rex-Spidey? Well, Jess is going to see the old girl, and the old girl is going to immediately become Jess’s favorite character of the series. That’s what it is. Calling it right now.” Thus, your GLORIOUS reaction to seeing Betty-Spidey was the best part of this whole reaction, especially when you said that Betty-Spidey was coming for Andrew-Spidey for being your favorite Spidey. Most wonderful, Jess. Other notes of interest. A clever inclusion of the pointing Spider-Man meme followed by your adorable reaction to that. The question of being Spider-Man and grounded. The answer is both, I quipped, “You can’t get out of that one, son. Your parents said you’re grounded, you are grounded. Period.” I also had a moment of commentary when his parents said about always arriving five minutes early, I said, “Five minutes early? No, Dad’s philosophy was fifteen minutes early. His dad’s philosophy was forty-five to an hour early. Five minutes is cutting things too close.” And we see that J. K. Simmons is J. Jonah Jameson in every universe. This pleases me. Like I said, lovely to see you loved the film, Jess, and I thank you for the wonderful reaction.

Thomas Corp

I quite like how everyone just calls Scream 5 by that name. It still bugs me the studio just called it Scream, which has led to confusion when I see it in the tv guide, I click on it expecting the first movie, and I get thrown that it is the fifth one, leading me to yell, “Oh goddamn it!!!”

Ryan

The Spot's only appearance in an adaptation before this was an episode of the '90s Spider-Man cartoon, which was one of the show's worst and led to him having a very bad reputation, and probably why it took this long for anyone else to use him. Though on the plus side, it featured the only time the Fox censors allowed Spider-Man to punch someone, since the use of portals meant kids couldn't imitate it.