Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse Review - 8 Ups & 2 Downs
1. Some May Find It Visually Overwhelming
This is an absolute visual feast of a movie, but even some critics who've thrown praise at it will concede that the overall sensory experience may simply be too overwhelming at times for some viewers.
Across the Spider-Verse is in many ways a ground-breaking movie from a visual perspective, but it's also occasionally close to being a bit too busy for its own good.
If you thought Everything Everywhere All At Once was disorientating at times, Across the Spider-Verse has it firmly licked.
When you meld the mile-a-second visuals with the head-spinning multiverse narrative, this is a movie that scarcely gives the audience time to catch up.
And for the most part it works, but there are certainly a few moments where the sheer muchness of it all threatens to become, well, too much.
These issues aside, though, here's what it gets so right...