

Here we go again, tampering with the space-time continuum. Even the soon-to-be-released “Indiana Jones” film involves time travel. The central themes of the Marvel superhero films are heavily based on timeline conundrums - and now these contrivances have transcended mainstream entertainment. This time-jumping alternate-realities stuff has become commonplace in films and TV.

And I thought “Everything Everywhere All At Once” was complicated.Īs featured in that Oscar-winning film, so have the two “Spider-Verse” films employed as its baseline the concept of multiple universes existing simultaneously, your actions could affect, with drastic results, the events and outcome of each, violating every law of known physics. The first film came in at 117-minutes - and “Across the Spider-Verse” clocks in at 139-minutes - more time for your brain to get unscrambled trying to figure out the pieces of the ethereal puzzle of simultaneously-running spatial dimensions getting all tangled up where timelines converge - and where you can actually bump into yourself from a different time dimension. However, that said, and for the youth audience mostly enraptured with “Into the Spider-Verse,” the brain can only process so much dizzying action and visceral movement, which can lead to an overload of your senses. The great success of “Into the Spider-Verse” (2018) is now followed with “Across the Spider-Verse,” once again featuring an array of mesmerizingly explosive eye-popping immersive computer animation. That’s not to say they’re good due to their complex crisscrossing time-travel conundrums, but because they are so audaciously conceived, you can’t help but be drawn into their web of comic book land. You have to appreciate if not admire the incredible effort that has gone into the two “Spider-Verse” animated films in terms of their astounding creativity and visually imaginative CGI graphics that has set them apart from any other animated feature…ever. “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” (139 min., Rated PG for sequences of animated action violence, some language and thematic elements) 7 out of 10 Shameik Moore in “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”.
