Sony Pictures' animated adventure The LEGO Movie), the movie follows Brooklyn teen Miles Morales as he tries to figure out how to be the best Spider-Man he can be - with a little help from some strange new friends.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is a standalone movie - separate from both the Spider-Man of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Sony's recent Spider-People from all sorts of universes into Miles' world. Among them are Spider-Gwen (a superpowered Gwen Stacy), original Spider-Man Peter Parker, and the gritty black-and-white Spider-Man of the Spider-Man Noir comics (who is voiced by Nicolas Cage).
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is lining up for a strong opening weekend upon its general release next week, and that will surely only be helped by the movie earning a 100% Fresh score on Early reviews have praised the movie's unique and stylized visual palette, its exhilarating action, its humor, and the characterization of Miles Morales as a well-intentioned but inexperienced fledgling superhero, who is carrying a very heavy weight upon his young shoulders.
Rotten Tomatoes scores measure the percentage of movie reviews that are either generally positive or generally negative, so a 100% "Perfect" score doesn't necessarily mean that critics think the movie itself is perfect - just that it hasn't received any negative reviews. That being said, the average rating for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is currently 9/10, meaning that critics think the movie is pretty close to being perfect.
That's all the more impressive when you consider the delicate balancing act that Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse had to pull off, and the challenges it faces. The movie has to introduce general moviegoers to the Miles Morales version of Spider-Man, establish him as the protagonist, then introduce Peter Parker as a ing character before expanding into a whole multiverse full of spider-people - including Peni Parker, a schoolgirl who operates a mech, and Spider-Ham, a spider who was bitten by a radioactive pig. Based on the reviews so far, it sounds like Into the Spider-Verse has managed to distil this complex and strange premise into a movie that's actually quite easy to follow, and extremely entertaining as well.