It’s the Long Island Iced Tea of movies. It has a little bit of everything and packs a huge punch. Every frame is a piece of art, not just pop art, but French impressionism, surrealism, you name it. Like the first movie, characters are designed to represent certain comic printing styles, and it’s all beautiful. Story-wise it’s imperative to remember certain minute details from part one, so it’s not really free-standing, and the cliffhanger ending was a shock and kind of a bummer. Lots of “way-homers” as you try and piece together the plot and the story after the show. But the teenage, growing-up themes resonate profoundly. There’s more focus on Gwen and her experiences not fitting in – not knowing what universe to be in, etc. There’s subtext all over this. There’s also a wealth of fan-service Easter Eggs, many of which I didn’t catch, from the Spider-canon of comics, video-games, and movies. So, rather than being linear, the whole experience comes together like some sort of web that maybe a certain animal would make; a sticky, connecting surface, with no end. If this had an ending, it could’ve won Best Picture. It’s that “amazing.” But with no resolution, it’s a beautiful chapter of a larger volume, but required viewing.
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