
MONDELLO: Not sure if Spidey's is the most started, restarted and possibly jumpstarted superhero saga ever, but with eight live-action features starring three different Peter Parkers and now two gorgeously animated "Spider-Verses" starring Shameik Moore's Miles, it has to be up there.

SHAMEIK MOORE: (As Miles Morales) My name's Miles Morales. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE") Critic Bob Mondello says happily, "Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse" exceeds expectations.īOB MONDELLO, BYLINE: Here we go again, again.


But a box office take of almost $400 million and the film's winning the Oscar for best animated feature have set the bar a whole lot higher for the sequel. When the animated story of an Afro-Latino superhero, "Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse," was released in 2018, few observers expected it to become the hit - to be the hit it became.
