‘Across the Spider-Verse’ is #1 movie in the world

With great reviews…

CEBU, Philippines —  Overwhelmingly positive critics’ reviews and passionate fan recommendations have led to amazing box-office numbers for “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.” The sequel to 2018’s Academy Award-winning “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” pulled US$ 208.6 million in box office receipts on its first weekend of play, making it the #1 Movie in the World.

Hailed as “the best Spider-Man film ever made” and “one of the best superhero movies of all time”, it shows a 95 percent Certified Fresh rating and 96 percent audience score on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.

Owen Gleiberman from Variety writes that “the images in ‘Across the Spider-Verse’ have an intoxicating unpredictability. The film makes you feel like you’re dropping through the floors of a modern art museum on acid, yet there’s a thrilling moment-to-moment logic to it all. This feels like it could have been the first movie designed to earn a thumbs up from Andy Warhol and Stephen Hawking.”

Writing for The Los Angeles Times, Katie Walsh raves, “A breathlessly beautiful achievement not just in animation but also comic book movie storytelling, ‘Across the Spider-Verse’ is willing to shred the lore from top to bottom and weave it back together again in new, surprising and wildly entertaining ways. It’s simply spectacular.”

Local critics and fans are applauding, too.

Film critic Vives Anunciacion raves, “Once in a while, a film comes along and resets its genre. Call it the Empire Strikes Back or The Godfather Part 2 of the Spider-Verse. I call it amazing in any universe.”

ANCX’s resident reviewer Andrew Paredes declares, “If ‘Into the Spider-Verse’ showed us what superhero movies could be, ‘Across the Spider-Verse’ shows us what they should be. If the first movie debuted an animation style that unabashedly embraces its comic-book origins...this installment takes it even further pushing the limits of its animation into something even more stunning, something even more tactile, something that morphs moment by moment with the emotional beats of its storytelling...what you’re seeing is the future of superhero movies.”

The local geek community can’t contain their excitement as well.

“You can’t miss it on the big screen because movie franchises like these only come once in a generation. Do not wait for it to stream. Please go see it now because it’s absolutely amazing!” raves Jiggy Cruz of Geek Speak, who calls the film “a feast for the eyes every second.”

For Abby Maravilla, geek content creator Coach Abby on TikTok, “‘Across the Spider-Verse’ is a feast for the eyes, the heart, and the soul, so don’t miss it.” Besides lauding the film’s animation, she gives high praise to the characterization, adding, “It’s a coming-of-age movie and a superhero movie, but what really surprised me was how well the characters are fleshed out and how relatable they all are. I definitely saw parts of myself in the different Spider-Persons there.”

FlipScience’s Mikael Francisco calls the movie “a multiversal masterpiece of stylistic storytelling – the kind that only a character as powerful and meaningful as Spider-Man can carry...no matter what kind of Spider-Man fan you are, you will find something in this two-hour masterpiece that will make you say, ‘I am so glad I watched this movie.’”

In “Across the Spider-Verse”, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man reunites with Gwen Stacy and they are catapulted across the Multiverse, where they encounter the Spider Society, a team of Spider-People charged with protecting the Multiverse’s very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must set out on his own to save those he loves most.

The film’s cast is led by Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Jake Johnson, Issa Rae, Daniel Kaluuya, Jason Schwartzman, Brian Tyree Henry, Luna Lauren Velez, Greta Lee, Rachel Dratch, Jorma Taccone, Shea Whigham and Oscar Isaac.