Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson direct Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld and Brian Tyree Henry in this sequel where Miles Morales discovers he is not welcome in a secret society of multiverse saving Spider-people.

Miles Morales is my Spider-Man. I still buy the comics and he’s the only Marvel character I’m currently loyal too. This looks glorious. Tri-colour, retina overkill. There’s a lot of movie here, at its best with the physics defying action sequences. Almost too much in length, I felt my mind having little time out pit stops in the slightly less frenetic emotional parts. It isn’t quite as tight as the miraculous first entry but as summer blockbusters go Across proves top value.

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