NOW CLOSED – In cinemas now, Sony Pictures’ Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is a mixed animation film of full on action that you need to see.

In Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Miles Morales returns for the next chapter of the Oscar®-winning Spider-Verse saga, an epic adventure that will transport Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man across the Multiverse to join forces with Gwen Stacy and a new team of Spider-People to face off with a villain more powerful than anything they have ever encountered.

We’ve seen the film and it is so far the best watch of 2023. You can read our review here.

Thanks to our mates at Sony Pictures NZ we have TEN Double Passes up for grabs for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse!

To enter in the draw for a Double Pass, you need to answer this question correctly:

Spider-Man has crossed many multiverses, character variations and platforms. Tell us your fav Spider-Man moment. This can be from films, comics, series or video gaming. There is no wrong or right answer, but keep it brief.

You can give us your answer by placing a comment below, hitting us up on Facebook, Tweet to us, or Email.

Important stuff: Winner(s) will be randomly selected from those that Comment below / Facebook Comment / DM / Email in accordance to the above Question. Winner(s) will receive a single Double Pass for the film Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is age rated PG in New Zealand. Competition ends on the 6th of June 2023. Only New Zealand entries are accepted for this promotion.

The post Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Double Pass Giveaway! appeared first on Shane the Gamer.

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is the second animated super hero film from Sony Pictures.

It pays homage to all Spider-Man character variations and encompasses multiple animation styles (and a wee bit of live action).

We see things kick off around a year after we were first introduced to teenager Miles Morales (Shameik Moore), who, in his dimension, was bitten by a radioactive spider that gave him web slinging abilities.

Across the Spider-Verse explores the near endless multi-dimensions that Spider-Man exists in and the keepers of said dimensions.

When a new foe called The Spot (Jason Schwartzman) emerges and wreaks havoc within the multiverse, everything gets mixed up… and was Miles even meant to be bitten by that spider in the first place, or was his descent in to the Spider-Verse a random mistake?

As we see Spider-Man from differing realities (and throughout history) begin to take on each other, try and take down Miles and restore order to the fabric of time and realities, Miles still has to grapple with family drama’s and the sudden re-emergence of Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfeld), who herself also has emotional trials to deal with, all the while helping Miles to literally survive… or is she working against him?

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is one epic animated fun filled ride of a film.

I loved the first film, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. A fresh take on the Spider-Man franchise, and usually sequels are never as good as the first. Across the Spider-Verse bucks that trend and shadows its predecessor.

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is a film that’s an explosive artwork of classic animation, comic-book styles, stop motion, CGI and more.

The best Spider-Man flick yet and the best film I’ve seen so far in 2023.

The post Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Sony Pictures – 2023) Review appeared first on Shane the Gamer.

Welcome to the Spider-Verse.

If you’ve ever wondered if there is another you, in another Universe separate to the one you know. Co-existing alongside your reality, wonder no more. There is.

Stylised like an interactive comic book (also based on the 2014 Marvel comic book series), Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures’ Into the Spider-Verse throws us in to Marvel’s New York, as we know it.

As Spider-Man is busy taking out villains, a young pre-teen Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) deals with an over-protective cop Dad (Bryan Tyree Henry), having recently changed schools, missing his old friends and teenage life in general.

Young Miles is a diverse and much welcomed lead for a Spider-Man character. Being half African American and half Puerto-Rican, an adolescent that is coming in to his own, skipping across the fence of morals vs. rebellion.

Miles is close with his Uncle Aaron Davis (Mahershala Ali) who was a rebellious sort himself when he was younger and lives a free-willed lifestyle. His Uncle encourages Miles’ street art, while his Dad frowns upon it and wants his son to focus on his studies.

It is during one of these rebellious moments where Miles is face to face with Spider-Man himself. While tagging the walls of an unused subway he unwittingly becomes embroiled in a fight between Green Goblin and Spider-Man.

The very subway where only days before he had been with his Uncle. The subway where young Miles was bitten by a radio-active spider.

The fight between Green Goblin and Spider-Man is epic, and viciously animated which really gets you on the edge of your seat. This under city battle ensues, as Spider-Man tries to stop a trans-dimensional device that will open up portals to other Universes.

The threat is that it could create a black hole where New York is and the entire Earth could be destroyed.

Then the unthinkable happens to Spider-Man… and the trans-dimensional portal is opened.

Into the Spider-Verse sees alternate Spider-Man characters teaming up with Miles, who is still getting to grips with his Spidey powers, to take out the ring leader of this trouble; Kingpin. Being from differing Universes each Spider-Man is characteristic to their specific world – and this adds a heaping of diversity to the Spider-Man lore.

While Peter Parker and Mary Janes story (as we know it in our Universe) remains the same, there are many, many alternatives.

All CGI animated with the ink-like brush finish, there are even throwbacks to the Spider-Man of yesteryears, you know, where it was weird in the 1960’s and 70’s.

It is a fair comment that there is an avalanche of Marvel Studio’s films as of late, and pleasingly so. Of all of the films, both past, present and still to be released Into the Spider-verse is one you really gotta see!

Loved it.

The post Into the Spider-Verse (Sony Pictures – 2018) Review appeared first on Shane the Gamer.