i won't speak for anyone but myself, of course, but i love this film, & right now have it slotted as my #1 of the 121 films i've seen that were released in 2018, & that has nothing to do with any daft social justice advocacy or anything silly like that.
spider-verse is the best attempt yet at bringing the spirit and feel of a comic book vision to film. you'll find chaykin-isms, kirby crackle, & the trippy wierdness of bill sienkiewicz's art in its animation, & if it was just that, if it was only getting by on looks alone, it would still be a great achievement. but it's a real story too. no other spiderman film to date has really captured the spirit of the character this one does. it's a movie with genuine heart, one that i think will ring true to every guy who loved the character as a kid & imagined what it would be like to be in that position. at the very least, it rang true to me.
if you don't dig it, then fair enough. i'm not out to change your mind, but i don't think there's anything too compelling in saying that all the people who say they like it are only doing so out of feeling that this movie is compensating for grievances of one sort or another. i doubt there's any reason to believe that, and i suspect that is just a bit of your own confirmation bias coming through in your reasoning.
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