 You know, there's a reason why I have the amazing Spider-Man up here in my background as I'm shooting this video. That's because Spider-Man is one of my most favorite characters in all of fictional history. This one being specifically about Miles Morales. Well, how was the film? How did it stand up? How does it stand up to the rest of the Spider-Man films? Well, we're going to talk about it. My name is Brennan Keith-Avery and this is just my opinion. Hey, what's going on guys? Thank you so much for tuning in to my Epin Slash review. For Spider-Man into the Spider-Verse, I really do appreciate it. Now I remember when this film was first announced, I was not interested at all. I'm like, Sony man, they don't know what they're doing. Jimmy Pascal sucks. I'm so glad that she's been fired from Sony. She has ran Spider-Man into the ground and I'm just like, I have no hope for this franchise. I just want things to go back to Marvel Studios, the true MCU with Kevin Feige. But then the first trailer came out and I found out that it had to do with Miles Morales and they piqued my interest a little bit, that little teaser they had at night time. He jumping off the building, stretching all out, doing Spider-Man stuff. You know, I was like, okay, it's pretty cool. We're going to have to give this a chance. Then they started coming up with more and more trailers and marketing material and I just didn't know how this film would be. Some of the trailers I was feeling, some of them I really wasn't. You know, I was just kind of back and forth and really just did not know what to expect. So going into this film, my expectations were mediocre. I'm saying to myself, okay, if we get a great Spider-Man film, hey, we get a great film, but if it sucks, if it bombs, that just raises the chances of the whole franchise to go back to the MCU. Now going into this, I did get a bit happier as I started hearing more and more reports on how amazing the film was. People telling me that's the best Spider-Man film of all time and of course we're going to talk about that. But then we're behind the scenes. This film, the directing and writing credits has kind of gone back and forth. The producers are Amy Pascal, Christopher Millen and Phil Lord. We got director Bob Parishashetty, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman. And now, and Christopher Millen and Phil Lord, we're both doing under the writing credits, but now it's only Phil Lord. And for the directors, a lot of them, this is like the first time directing a film. This is their directorial debut. Now what I like about this is it takes all of the Spider-Man films from the past, from the comics, and they combines everything together and does make a pretty good film. I'm not going to like, you know, tease you and say that I like to hate the film at the very end of this. I really did enjoy the Spider-Man film. It's a great movie. I will be buying this on 4K Blu-ray. I can't wait to buy it again just so I can see all the colors and things like that that was on the screen. I mean, this is just a beautiful film. It starts Shamique Moore. If you don't know him, he voices Miles Morales previous work that he's done before was Dope. They came out in 2015 by Rick Fermi-Yua. If I'm pronouncing his name correctly. And there's a ton of people in this film right here that I like. The cast is distiller. We've got Shamique Moore, what I've just mentioned, Jake Johnson. He was in tag in The Mummy earlier, well actually a couple of years ago. Hailey Stonfield, she voices Gwen Stacy and also is in the Bumblebee movie that's about to come out. Marcia Halle is in this. Brian Tyree Henry, Lily Tomlin, Zoe Kravitz, Nicholas Cage is in this thing, Chris Pine. And there's just great voice acting all throughout this thing and you can easily recognize all the voices. Like I said before, the first thing that I noticed in this film that I really just loved is how it acknowledged all the Spider-Man lore. Spider-Man 1, 2 and 3, the amazing Spider-Man, Spider-Man Homecoming, all of that. It was very clever the way they brought that together. It had the audience laughing, it had me laughing, it was engaging. It brought me into the film even more than I already was because it started out really great. I also like that this film does pay respect to Steve Ditko who passed away earlier this year and Stan Lee, of course you do get a cameo of him in here, I'm not going to tell you what it is, of course you'll have to see the film. But I will say that when Stan Lee popped up, especially animation form, the whole theater, their hearts melted. I don't know, it was just like a hundred puppies were born at the same time with rainbows and sun shines and sun stars all in the sky and the universe and things like that. Everybody was just very, very happy. Next thing I want to talk about this film is the animation. This is an animated film, they just done some things that I have never ever seen before in any type of production whatsoever. It was freaking beautiful and creative. The color is vast and vivid, you know what I'm saying? What I was saying earlier, I can't wait to buy this on 4K Blu-ray and change my setting to something I may call Ultra where I watch color from movies on, just for that or whatever. It's just going to look splendid, spectacular. Every color known man that's ever been created by anybody is in this movie and the way they're tied in with the animation is jaw-dropping, to me at least, seriously. I was watching them like, damn, this is really pretty cool what they're doing here. And then also the way they combine the animation with the way they're telling the story and the comics, because this is some random times when you're watching a movie, people are giving out lines of dialogue. But you can see the words pop up on the screen like it's a comic page and it doesn't get annoying or anything like that. It's not distracting, it just draws you into the film more. It's very impactful or whatever and again, it's something that I've never seen before. So I've got to give the Sony credit as far as that's concerned and the writers and all that, even Amy Pascal, even though I still feel like she's know what she's doing. But you can tell when the Sony had that hack years ago and all this came out and then she was fired or whatever, you know, this is her last ditch ever. She's she's just like, hey, you know what, I can see her, Amy Pascal, just looking at the movies like, hey, girl, everybody hates you and they think you suck and you don't know what you're talking about. But we're going to show them with venom and we're going to show them a spot of me until the spot of us. We're doing everything. We're going on balls to the wall. I don't care. I have nothing to lose. I will prove to them that I know Spider-Man. Like, I bet you a million dollars. Amy Pascal had that conversation with herself or some executive somewhere. And if she didn't, she should have whatever because, I mean, you know, she if she didn't have a lot to do, you know, with this film because, you know, sometime with those, you know, associate producer, producer, executive producer, it weighs just how much somebody actually has to do with the film or whatever. But she really did go boss to the wall with this because, you know, she has her own production company, you know, within this call Pascal Pictures, I believe. So I'll go ahead and give her that. I was just talking about the animation as well. This is Sony's most as far as the animators that is used on this film. They use 140 animators. I don't know if that's a lot per se because that's just something I don't I don't follow, you know, all the time just to be honest with you. But when I was doing my research, they said that Sony has never on any film ever used that many animators before. And it shows on the screen. You can tell that they put a lot of extra into this, especially with the marketing but not the marketing budget, excuse me, the production budget being $90 million. That's very good, in my opinion. Venom was like 100 to 118 and this was 90. That I don't know if I just said 90. But 90, you know, that's that's a good, respectable number right there. And I'm proud of them for that. I hope they didn't spend an ass load on marketing like they usually do, which is just horrible. Like what they did with like Spider-Man, the amazing Spider-Man, one and two, but the budget is good there, too. Now, as far as the main character in this film, Maz Morales, you know, I'm saying I love them. I love Sheming Morse's great voice, great character. I was able to relate to the character. Sheming Morse is a brother. He's born in Atlanta, but he also has Jamaican descent. And in this film, you know, and Maz Morales, if you know, from the comics, he is mixed between black and Hispanic. And I was able to relate to him for the black culture. Yeah, because I'm black, if you haven't noticed. So that was cool. And also, there was a nice touch of Hispanic culture in the film as well. His mother was Hispanic. His father was black. You know, we got a nice couple of scenes of their family. I love the relationship that Maz Morales had with his father. It was beautiful. You saw some of that in the trailers where he's like, hey, you got to sit back. I love you. I mean, it was great. And not only did they not just get along all the time in the movie, there were some times where, you know, the father and son had some disagreements, had some arguments, buffalo problems, right? In some situations, both of them were wrong. You know, the parents are ultimately right because they know best and they have all the experience and knowledge and wisdom and things like that. But I think you get, but you get my point that their relationship felt real. I was able to relate to it. I was able to say, oh, me and my dad went through that at least once, one time before in my life. So I really did appreciate that. This film is also a true headband, as far as the soundtrack and the score is concerned. I was loving the music just all throughout this thing. Now, the composer for this is Daniel Pemberton. I've never heard of him before. But when I looked up some of the work he's done in the past and his on his past filmography, he recently did do Oceans Eight, which came out earlier this year. And I do like that film and I do like the music as well. Also, I like that we got multiple different Spider-Man. We got Mazma Rales. We got a good Peter Parker. We got a bad Peter Peter B Parker. We got a Spider-Man, a noir voiced by Nicholas Cage. We got, well, who else did we get? We got Spider-Gwen, who I talked about. We got Spider-Ham. We got this Asian Spider person that was in this robotic machine and all that. It was pretty cool. It was it was vast. It was different. It was something that I've just never experienced before. The origin story for all of those Spider-Man people or whatever, the way that they told that, I loved it. It was funny and it was repetitive, too. That usually when things repeat themselves like, OK, damn, I mean, we've seen this before seven times. Why are you repeating yourself? But they had a few elements and plot points with the story and origin that repeated itself. But the way that it was edited, especially with the animation and all that good stuff, it was brilliant. And it brought a lot of laughs. And like I talked about laughs before, this film is funny. You're going to laugh. You may not just be like, you know, your stomach is hurting. You laugh and then hard, but it is good. And you you will laugh a whole time. Now, something else that I wanted to say is, well, OK, let's talk about the let's talk about the plot real quick. I love how they told us, the audience, how the Spider-Verse worked, the visual representation of how everything came together, too. I really do like that. That was very creative. It made sense. The film challenged you as well because the way it was presenting the information, it was making sense at first. But then I was like, whoa, this doesn't make any sense right here. It was making sense before. Is this some big plot hole? But towards the middle of the film, it all came together. And he's like, oh, OK, it's all coming together. It's all coming full circle. I like what you're doing there. Great job. Keep it up. So that's dope as well. Also, as far as the plot and the story is concerned, it does give you something more, but it also comes who gives you a nostalgic value and representation of Spider-Man from the past and everything that you know. And of course, you have that with great power comes great responsibility and all that good stuff. Of course, they don't leave any of that out. Pretty much no complaints. I've talked about all the things like even the villains. I'm not going to talk about the villains because I feel there will be a spoiler because I really don't remember seeing any of the villains in the trailers. I actually do. I just I don't want to spoil it for you guys because some of it was a surprise. Let's talk about my complaints. Let's talk about my gramps, my gripes. So early on in this review in this video, I said that you can it's blatantly obvious that Amy Pascal just was like, hey, we're going to go ball to the walls. There was too many balls. There was too many walls. OK, they went kind of crazy, especially towards the end. It was just too much for me. Now, I like for my films, my movies, my entertainment whatsoever to make sense. I wanted to be logical. I wanted to have some type of order, some type of organization. If there's a live action movie, if there's a plot hole or something that doesn't make sense, you know, I'm going to call it out. Same thing with animation. I am not going to give this film a pass just because it's an animated film. Let's take the first Spider-Man that came out of 2002, Sam Raimi. Some of the people, some of the 2002, some of the criticism of that film, it was a great film. It was like, OK, how the hell the Spider-Man learned how to make a suit and things like that. Questions and things like that come up in Spider-Man into the Spider-Verse. I was just kind of like, OK, where did all these suits come from? Where did this layer come from? Why is this person right here so skilled in this area? It just doesn't make sense to me. That's one gripe. Another gripe that I have is we have Maz Morales in this film. As you see in the trailers, he doesn't know how to be Spider-Man. He's new to the game or whatever. We have Spider, I mean, Peter B. Parker trying to teach him the way, trying to teach him the ropes for Maz Morales to have no experience of Spider-Man. There were some action scenes in this film where he was able to escape and get away and it makes no sense. The villain that's chasing him is like a vet, advance, knows his stuff and is agile and powerful and fast. But for a Maz Morales to have no experience, he should have been caught. Another thing is there was one character. This bugged the hell out of me. There was one character in this film that killed another character. First of all, it was very predictable. Right before it came out, I was like, OK, this person about to kill this person. Bam, and then it happened. But right after it happened, I was like, wait a minute. If the person that did the killing, if your ultimate goal was to kill this person, why didn't you kill this person to begin with? You killed this person right here instead. That just made no sense. And that was a plot point that was forced into this film. I feel that they try to shine on the Spider-Man lore motivation of the great power comes with great responsibility type thing. I'm just like, OK, this did not flow. This was forced. I saw it coming a mile away. You know, if you were if you were in a position to kill this person, you should have been killing your main target to begin with. I really want to talk about it, but I don't want to spoil that for you. And then my last gripe is, OK, when when no, I got two more gripes. And I like the film, guys, but we have all the Spider-Man in here. We've got all the Spider-Man, nor the ham, the robot, this Spider-Man, Miles Morales, all that. If you know Spider-Man, you know that he can pretty much take down the sinister six by himself in some cases, you know, especially if he's lucky. So if if that's the case and you have sinister six, six versus one, OK, you pretty can tell how well Spider-Man is with his fighting ability and things like that. But if you have a situation to where it's like six on six, Spider-Man, the Spider people should just win hands down. It should be no contest that did not happen in this movie. And then with some of the action, I was kind of like, OK, I can see what's going on, but I really can't see what's going on. The camera is just moving around that much. And I'm really not sensing that many Spidey moves. And my last little gripe, my last little complaint in this film was when the final showdown is going on and the bad guy and the good guy are fighting and things like that, we're not in the middle of throwing fisty cuffs. It doesn't make sense to where there can be a break in the fight where good characters are able to talk to each other for a long, long time. What is the bad guy doing in these situations? Like Sidney Wade going back and forth like, OK, soon as I don't show conversation, I'm coming over there to continue to whoop your butt round three. You know, it's just like what I'm like, what is the bad guy doing off screen? OK, like what are they doing? And just when I say there was too many balls, there was too many walls. It was just too it was just too much. Like they they took the the Spider-Man going into different dimensions and things and stuff flying around in portals and just cranked it up to elevens where I'm just like, OK, this is just a bit much. I mean, I would say they were saying that, hey, I want you to animate this film in a way that it will be impossible to do live action. But that's not the case because this film was 90 million dollars. But those are just my gripes, guys. Overall, I really did enjoy this film. It was a lot of fun. I said I will be buying it. This is not my everybody said this is the best Spider-Man film. In my opinion, it is not. I still like Spider-Man 2 better than this and I. I don't know if I have to, man, I'm still trying to decide which one I like more. This one, a Spider-Man homecoming. But definitely this is not my favorite. OK, so I will say that Spider-Man 2 with Doc Ock is with Sam Raimi that came out of 2004. They're still the best Spider-Man right now. For me, this one right now, I still got to think about it. I may need to see it one more time. But right now, it's a tie between Spider-Man homecoming and Spider-Man into the Spider-Verse. But it's still a great film. Also, stay all the way into all the way through the credits. There's a mid-credits scene and there's also a post-credits scene. And it's hilarious, too. They really did do it. And I have to give Sony credit or whatever. I was hoping that things would just go back to Marvel or whatever, but they really are trying or whatever. And so I will get credit where that was due. This is a great Spider-Man film and you will love it if you like Spider-Man. But oh, I'm going today. If I had to raise Spider-Man into the Spider-Verse out of a one out of 10, I'm going to give this an 8.5 out of 10. Yes, an 8.5 out of 10. But guys, that is just my opinion. Have you seen Spider-Man into the Spider-Verse or do you want to see it? Have I turned you on? Have I turned you off? Do you agree with me or do you disagree with me? Let me know down in the comment section below. Let's get this conversation going and keep it flowing. If you like this video, go ahead and give me a thumbs up. If you don't, that's fine. But you can still subscribe to my channel. Look me up on social media, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. 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