Spiderman: Across the Spiderverse - A Review

Met up with tanithryudo and stuffed ourselves at a Korean BBQ then watched Spiderman: Across the Spiderverse, which worked out despite the lack of planning, as we somehow managed to bumble our way to the cinema just in time to catch the showing despite not checking the showing timing or anything.

We rock.

Anyway, a review.

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( The Review )

I could go into detail about the plot and stuff, but I feel like a) that's been done pretty thoroughly elsewhere and b) I think the story does stand well enough that discussing the plot isn't really all that interesting. More interesting is the concept the story brings up, via meta-commentary (which was also foreshadowed by a literal comment about how meta-commentary art is still art), about "canon events". So according to the news, TikTok's obsessed with the idea of canon events in RL, the idea that something bad was unavoidable to prevent the unraveling of the universe's very fabric, and I think TikTok has completely missed the point of the story. Because I'm fairly certain the actual message of the movie is to defy the canon event, to not accept something bad has to happen just because a bunch of people failed to avert the bad event in other universes. Don't accept that fate is pre-determined.

As Miles said, "Spiderman can save both, that's the point".

But then again, Gen Z missing the point of art seems to be a thing now. I despair for the younger generation. Maybe some Gen Z-ers are fighting the good fight to try to correct misconceptions, but I'm too jaded to bother getting into internet fights over media interpretations now. (Suddenly reminded of college days when tanithryudo and I would get into long forum discussions over interpretations of movies or anime or manga or whatever. Ah...youth. When I gave a damn about changing people's opinion and now I don't care anymore.)

Anyhoo, to conclude, would recommend except for that point mentioned in the spoiler tag.