With the release of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’s second trailer debuting earlier this week, I was wondering why the hell the Spider-Verse panel was going to be an hour and a half instead of the normal hour. At first, Phil Lord and Chris Miller walked out on stage and began what they called “a boring and slow two hour Q&A”, only for Miller to suggest that they show the fans some exclusive clips from the movie. Lord agreed, but instead suggested they show the first 35 minutes of the movie, which everyone went nuts over. So yes, I’ve seen the first third of Into the Spider-verse and here are my spoiler-free thoughts.
Overall, I liked what I saw quite a bit. I was very worried that the animation would be iffy, but seeing it on the big screen mitigates a lot of the choppiness of it. Plus it’s stylized in such a way that it makes Spider-Verse stand out from other animated movies, let alone other superhero movies. There was a pretty surprising twist at the end of the preview that the audience did not see coming, and I have to give props for Lord and Miller for doing what they did. It recontextualizes several of the key scenes from the trailers.
Source: Destructoid NYCC: We got to see the first 35 minutes of Into the Spider-Verse