The animation is pure art. I didn’t blink for 2 hours.

There's no way they could top the first. ...but then they did

It's the art style and animation for me. Different from all the other Pixar inspired animated movies from the triple A productions out there. It's like this one has it's own identity, its own brand and feel. In terms of the movie itself, its pretty different from the first one, but at the same time, tries to follow the rhythm the first movie set. The multiverse concept is picture perfect, the characters just class. 9. Surprise! It's a 2 parter. Can't wait for part 2- "Beyond The Spiderverse" soon enough

I saw an early release of this in a theatre, yesterday. The art work is amazing. The attention to all the history of the canon was admirable and the imagination of what could be was unmatched. BUT it was chaotic, so much happening at once, dialogue cascading over other dialogue, images flashing by so rapidly there could be little appreciation of the panoramic art and world building. It all became a blur. The worse sin in my eyes was that there was never a clear direction for the primary story arc. All the little origin stories that were included interrupted the basic story (was there really one?), so much so that when they returned to the narrative they repeatedly had the repeat the salient points of the narrative in a lot of mini-synopses. And the final insult was that it was TO BE CONTINUED. This movie needed a narrative edit and a completed story line. The chaos made the action cheap and at times boring. I give this film a 5 (meh) out of 10. [Marvel Superhero Action Adventure]

I felt like they tried so hard to make everything a step up from the original that it ended up just being too much. the art got even more artsy, and while some places it looked really cool, other places it was just very distracting and genuinely looked like mistakes. (I literally went and asked the staff if they were showing us a 3D version by mistake because of just how blurry things were at times.) Story-wise, I felt like it lost a lot of the charm and succinctness. It again felt like I had to one up everything, but in doing so it lost a lot of what made the first movie special. I really didn't like or get to know any of the new characters. There were quite a few funny moments, but too little banter for a movie with this many Spider-Mans. Probably the biggest complaint is the complete lack of an ending or even a warning ahead of time that this was just a part one. that probably explains why it felt like the latter two-thirds of the movie dragged so much. there were a lot of action scenes mixed in, but it just felt like standard web slinging chases, nothing really interesting happening most of the time.