Marvel and Sony’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse delivered a brilliant, funny, engaging, and arguably one of the best onscreen Spider-Man we’ve seen yet, and it’s animation style is fantastic. It marries a number of animation styles and literally brings the comic book to life.

When Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) has a life-altering encounter with Spider-Man (Chris Pine), he finds himself involved in an adventure involving the multiverse. Things get even more complicated when he’s bitten by a radioactive spider and begins developing some familiar, and some new ones.

And like every superhero origin story, he’s going to have some problems and heartache to face. But he won’t be alone as he prepares to confront Kingpin (Liev Schrieber) who has a plan to shatter the multiverse and restore his family.

As spider-people from across the multiverse begin to show up, bonds are formed, as are crushes, as Miles meets Gwen (Hailee Steinfeld), Peter B. Parker (Jake Johnson), Peni Parker (Kimiko Glenn), Spider-Man Noir (Nicolas Cage), and Spider-Ham (John Mulaney). Each of the characters have their own unique animation style. Miles’ looks very much like a literal comic book image brought to life, and each character brings their own established comic style to the screen.

It’s a fast-paced, entertaining film that gives Miles a powerful emotional arc as he tries to resolve his family life with the great responsibilities that come with great power.

It also delivers an important message that Stan Lee always talked about when it came to the character of Spider-Man, that anyone can wear the mask.

Filled with fun details, a true comic book style, easter eggs, a smart sense of humour, and an incredibly engaging and well-written story brought to life by an incredibly talented cast

Miles has a tough journey to take, he learns the truth about a criminal known as the Prowler (Mahershala Ali), deal with the fallout of a death in the family, and his cop father’s (Brian Tyree Henry) opinion of Spider-Man.

I love the glimpses of family life we get with Miles, his father, Jefferson and mother, Rio (Luna Lauren Velez). He’s also an exceptional student, he won a scholarship, and passed the test for a position in a prestigious Brooklyn school, and he’s trying to find out where he fits in the world. Throw in his new abilities, and you have a great story that draws the viewer in, and wows them with the animation styles on the screen.

It’s a fun, beautiful-looking fun, and is took home a well-deserved Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film. It shows the power of animation and shows how enduring the character of Spider-Man can be, even as the mantle is passed to a variety of other characters.

I love this movie so much.