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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 383121" data-attributes="member: 23">Yipes. Is it really sixteen months since I watched Into The Spider-Verse? No wonder I felt more than ready for... Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse (2022) <img src="https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.brickfanatics.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2022%2F12%2FSpider-Man-Across-the-Spider-Verse-poster-712x1024.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=2e69977d705335dfbe98d7a8f8841eb5205bcf76adaaf2d19a910311f5f4dd0b&ipo=images" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> After the first film, hopes were high for this one. Overall it was a really good film, but I felt it didn't feel as engaging or accessible as the first. I suspect it suffered from being very clearly designed as the middle part of a trilogy, making it less satisfying when watched in isolation. And at risk of sounding like an old fart, I found the soundtrack quite noisy and intrusive at times. Gripes aside, I applaud the film's design. The aesthetics are amazingly eye-catching and diverse, and this film pushed the boundaries further still with brief visits to, for instance, a Lego universe, what appeared to be the "real" world and even glimpses of previous live-action Spidey films. The Spot is a choice for a villain that made me raise an eyebrow. I was reading Spider-Man titles at the time he was introduced and still remember picking up the issue with his first appearance from the rack in a particular newsagents. Even at the time he was treated quite light-heartedly as a bit of a "joke" character, not to be taken seriously, and I don't remember him ever seeming a real threat for Spider-Man, so to have this taken to a level where he was a threat to the entire multiverse felt very unexpected. With all the MCU films and spinoffs, it feels quite criminal that Marvel's main Spider-Woman - to the best of my knowledge - has still to appear. Probably her only outing in films other than comics and motion comics has been the 1970s cartoon with Joan Van Ark, which was great fun (and my introduction to the character) but is tonally very different from the brooding, almost gothic Spider-Woman appearing in comics of the time. When animated superheroes got serious and serialised in the Nineties, it was Julia Carpenter's Spider-Woman who featured. Ironically it kind of happened again here. While it was just a brief silent cameo, we did get a glimpse of a Julia Carpenter Spider-Woman who looked very much like that version when she first appeared (she even features on the poster, right above Jess Drew's afro). While I'd love for original recipe Jessica to have somehow appeared in this film, I'm glad to say I did like Jess Drew, the alternative universe version who featured quite prominently here. Which is probably just as well since I'd hazard a guess we'll be seeing more of her. The aesthetics and persona feel closer to, say, Misty Knight than Jessica Drew, but given the nature of this film it's not difficult to accept an alternative version that's done well. Perhaps I wasn't paying close enough attention, but I noticed far fewer of these in this film. There were certainly a hell of a lot of Easter eggs with the various Spider characters who have appeared in the comics and media over the years. They even squeezed in the Bombastic Bag-Man costume (another issue I remember well). I missed this in the actual film, but he, too is on the poster above, to the left of Jess Drew and Julia Carpenter. </blockquote>

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