Ambition is the name of the game, and Across the Spider-Verse is winning. Across the Spider-Verse bursts through those limitations, proving that the only real limit of animation is invention. Into the Spider-Verse felt like an adventure into the limits of animation. Strokes of watercolor images change with each shot, comic accents burst onto the screen, and each character brings with them their own visual style. Whereas Into the Spider-Versewas able to introduce and perfect a highly unique comic book-inspired visual style, Across is somehow able to one-up itself. It’s cliché to call every frame a painting, but it’s difficult to not just sit in awe at any moment. The animation brims to the edge with character and color.

The film’s starting 60 minutes might just be one of the greatest hours of animation ever seen it weaves a multiverse of grief and anxiety onto an intoxicating canvas, one in which not a single centimeter of the frame is wasted.

What Across the Spider-Verse is able to accomplish as far as its visual style is something that has to be seen to be believed.

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