

On a $90 million budget, Spider-Verse raked in $384 million. It did quite well for Sony Pictures, despite being an animated picture not aimed squarely at kids. It not only is a great movie, but also a commercial success. It uses its weirdness to tell a satisfying story about responsibility, family, and self-confidence that works as well as, or better than, every Spider-Man movie to come before it. It's a really, really good, weird movie, though. It doesn't pull inspiration from a classic Spider-Man story, but rather one of the most complex and goofy ones, in which Spider-Man works with all of the other Spider-People from other Marvel Earths. It also has not one Spider-Man, but seven of them (two of which are Peter Parker, though he's a supporting character at best). It's about Miles Morales, instead of Peter Parker. It's animated when the rest are live-action. It goes against everything we expect from superhero movies and the big studio system behind them. The 2018 film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse shouldn't exist.
