SPIDERMAN: CROSSING THE MULTIVERSE
Rating: ★★★★
Premiere: June 2, 2023
Directors: Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin Thompson
Let’s try to ignore the fact that both this film and its predecessor “Spider-Man: A New Universe” (2018) helped popularize a concept – the multiverse – that invites Hollywood to fall into some of its worst vices. Because both titles The most indisputable victory of cinema to date. Super heroesbecause it expands its narrative possibilities to the point where it makes almost any other film of the genre look ridiculous.
As expected, it’s a bigger movie than its predecessor: it features more heroes from different genres with spider powers, set in universes too diverse to be explored in a single movie—indeed, it’s the first episode of a movie. diptych to complete “Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse” (2024)- and contains so many references to comics, movies, ‘cartoons’ and video games that even a few dozen views are not enough to describe them all. And its aesthetic eclecticism is even greater, thanks to an animation that combines and overlaps multiple techniques and beautifully embellish them. lysergic touches, split screens and other visual effects, and this adapts its shape to the dramatic tone of the scenes.
Meanwhile, “Crossing the Multiverse” offers an increasingly creative and dazzling array of action choreographies brimming with light, color and energy. But despite this and the humor that always fuels it, the movie always prioritizes the characters’ emotional dilemmas; and also finds time to criticize the narrative limitations of the superhero story canon and to question the idea that editing should follow parameters that have already proven effective.
True, it loses its momentum as it progresses, both because of the overload it carries like plot, character, revealing moments, and because nothing matters because everything is possible in the multiverse. But that doesn’t prevent it from happening, in any case. a work of art that is formally and conceptually disrespectful but full of psychology and emotionOverwhelming in its encyclopedic presentation of information on Spider-Man mythology, but still completely accessible, it impresses as both a blockbuster and a purely creative act of expression.
Source: Informacion
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