Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is a 2023 animation movie directed by Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson, with a running time of 2h 20m. It stars Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld and Brian Tyree Henry.

Miles Morales, Brooklyn's teenage Spider-Man, reunites with Gwen Stacy and gets pulled across the multiverse into the Spider-Society, hundreds of Spider-People sworn to protect the timeline. Their leader, Miguel O'Hara, holds a hard rule about what a Spider-hero must sacrifice, and Miles refuses it. The sequel to Into the Spider-Verse pushes its hand-drawn, comic-panel animation further, rendering each universe in its own style. Shameik Moore and Hailee Steinfeld lead the voice cast, with Oscar Isaac and Jason Schwartzman. A dazzling, emotional middle chapter that ends on a cliffhanger into Beyond the Spider-Verse.

Quick answers

What is Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse about?

When was Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse released?

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse was released on 31 May 2023.

How long is Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse?

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse runs 2h 20m.

Who made Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse?

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse was directed by Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson and Joaquim Dos Santos.

Where can I watch Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse?

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is available on Disney+, HBO Max, MAX (Via Amazon Prime), fuboTV, FX and Amazon.

Where to watch Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Stream: Disney+, HBO Max, MAX (Via Amazon Prime), fuboTV

Watch free: FX

Rent: Amazon, AppleTV, Fandango at Home, Spectrum On Demand

Buy: Fandango at Home

Official site

https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/spidermanacrossthespiderverse

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A few thoughts on Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

The film grew from Marvel's Miles Morales comics, and the Ultimate Spider-Man run is where he begins. For playable Miles, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales carries the same Brooklyn heart, and Metro Boomin's soundtrack album stands fully on its own. My Hero Academia shares the young-heroes-finding-themselves current.

Every universe gets its own version of Spider-Man

Miles meets hundreds of alternate Spider-People across this film, each wired to their own universe's rules, and these carry that same idea forward. Into the Spider-Verse sets up Miles's first crossing before Gwen pulls him further out, No Way Home stitches three film universes together at once, The Amazing Spider-Man and Spider-Man 3 belong to two earlier continuities, and Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales lets Miles carry a universe alone.

Alternate timelines and parallel worlds colliding

One bad jump between dimensions threatens every timeline in Across the Spider-Verse, and these run on that same fault line. Back to the Future Part II and Part III show one bad trip rewriting a whole town's history, Crisis on Infinite Earths folds entire DC universes into each other, and Ant-Man's Quantumania and Across the 2nd Dimension both drop their heroes into a pocket world with its own rules.

Teen heroes figuring out what kind of hero they want to be

Miles spends this film pushing back on a rule about what a Spider-hero must sacrifice, and these follow young heroes working out the same question. My Hero Academia trains a whole class of teenagers toward heroism, Thunderbolts throws together damaged antiheroes deciding what they stand for, and Secret Headquarters and Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles hand a young hero new gear and a taste of responsibility.