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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
Directed by Justin K. Thompson, Kemp Powers and Joaquim Dos Santos.
The first critique that comes to mind on this is the one that Peter Griffin gives of The Godfather: “It insists on itself”. While I disagree with the sentiment of The Godfather and didn’t quite understand what he meant by it, after watching Across the Spider-Verse, I finally get it.
The film “insists” on its mind-numbing and sometimes incomprehensible style. The continuous flashing lights and colors mixed with never-consistent animation changes left me feeling like I was watching a Gaspar Noe film (which he prides himself on being nauseating). Sometimes styles would change multiple times within the same scene for no apparent reason other than to keep whatever would-be disruptive 6-year-old in their seat and staring at their screen longer. There would be no need for a child to watch Subway Surfers alongside this film because Across the Spider-Verse is about as overstimulating as a dubstep concert from 2010.
