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It took a long time since Surf's Up but Sony Animation finally managed to make a film that is unique and sets them apart from Disney animation, Pixar, and Dreamworks Animation. Visually, the film is amazing to watch and is the closest to looking like the actual source material that it is based on. The story is good too, although the flow of it sometimes made it slightly hard to follow.
The animation was generally very good; although, there were some janky looking areas, especially in fast-paced scenes. There were times where the animation looked like it was dropping frames when characters were running. The effect felt like a still camera with a timer set to snap every few milliseconds or so. However, considering the number of different techniques used in the film, the effect could have been a stylistic choice to depict the superhero speed of the characters as compared to their normal selves.
I saw the film in RealD. While the 3D effect was good, many times the film looked like the images were misaligned causing close up foreground characters to have a sort of "double-image" around outside edges. It had the effect of "softening" the images and at times made the film look "blurry". I don't know if that was due to the "half-tone dot matrix" effect interfering with the 3D processing or if it was due to deficient calibration of the theatre equipment. I kind of lean toward the latter explanation as Cineplex is a shitty company that cares little for properly maintaining the theatre equipment in the small-market theatres that they own.
There were a lot of references to other Spiderman films and comics. Some of which I caught, but a lot of which passed over my head I am sure, since I never really read many of the Spiderman comics. One reference that I missed, until today, was to Apocalypse Now with the bedroom scene involving Peter B. Parker. The scene becomes funnier in hind-sight once I realized what was being referenced.
in my book, this film is in the #1 spot when it comes to films using Spiderman. The scene at the very end of the credits was a laugh too.
Edit: If it manages to make enough money, I would like to the next one focus on either Noir Spiderman, Gwen or Peni in that order.
The animation was generally very good; although, there were some janky looking areas, especially in fast-paced scenes. There were times where the animation looked like it was dropping frames when characters were running. The effect felt like a still camera with a timer set to snap every few milliseconds or so. However, considering the number of different techniques used in the film, the effect could have been a stylistic choice to depict the superhero speed of the characters as compared to their normal selves.
I saw the film in RealD. While the 3D effect was good, many times the film looked like the images were misaligned causing close up foreground characters to have a sort of "double-image" around outside edges. It had the effect of "softening" the images and at times made the film look "blurry". I don't know if that was due to the "half-tone dot matrix" effect interfering with the 3D processing or if it was due to deficient calibration of the theatre equipment. I kind of lean toward the latter explanation as Cineplex is a shitty company that cares little for properly maintaining the theatre equipment in the small-market theatres that they own.
There were a lot of references to other Spiderman films and comics. Some of which I caught, but a lot of which passed over my head I am sure, since I never really read many of the Spiderman comics. One reference that I missed, until today, was to Apocalypse Now with the bedroom scene involving Peter B. Parker. The scene becomes funnier in hind-sight once I realized what was being referenced.
in my book, this film is in the #1 spot when it comes to films using Spiderman. The scene at the very end of the credits was a laugh too.
Edit: If it manages to make enough money, I would like to the next one focus on either Noir Spiderman, Gwen or Peni in that order.
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