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Not only do the first 10 minutes manage to catch the audience up with Miles’ origin story from Into the Spider-Verse, but it also goes in-depth into Spider-Gwen’s origin, including her ‘canon event’, the death of her Peter Parker, as well as all the other characters surrounding her like Captain Stacy.

We also get to watch her fight with an alternate version of the Vulture, as well as the introduction of the film’s primary antagonist Spider-Man 2099 a.k.a. Miguel O’Hara.

Though superhero films like Quantumania and Shazam! Fury of the Gods may have received mixed reviews, Across the Spider-Verse has proven that it’s not really superhero fatigue that is weighing these films down, but rather the quality of the storytelling. As long as there are huge stakes and great emotional arcs, fans will be lining up to see the film—just like they did with Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.

Though Beyond the Spider-Verse is promising a release next year, it’s possible that the WGA and SAG AFTRA strike will also be pushing the movie back. We’ll just have to wait and see until the studios strike a new, fair deal.

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is now available on digital.

While promoting the Blu-Ray release of The Mitchells vs. The Machines, producer Phil Lord gives a small update on Spider-Verse 2 to IndieWire. He says, “It’s been fun to have the confidence… to go even harder and push the medium even further and take Miles [Morales] to places you couldn’t imagine.”

With the first movie introducing us to several versions of Spider-Men, the sequel is expected to go even further and maybe even show us some very well-established, even obscure versions of the wallcrawler. While it hasn’t been confirmed, a lot of fans are almost sure that Japanese Spider-Man from the 70s is going to show up, and he’s even going to be summoning his giant mech.

Disney may be dominating in the animation market right now, but Spider-Verse was able to set a new standard on animation that totally popped with its own style. You can even see a lot of it bleed over to Mitchells when it came out, and we should expect all the colors and styles to be ramped up to 11 when the sequel comes along.

Though the new style is being touted for Spider-Verse 2, I’m hoping that Lord and Miller manage to come up with a great story that further challenges Miles and the idea of what it takes to be Spider-Man.

Part One of Across the Spider-Verse is set to hit theaters on Oct. 7.

Check out the new trailer for Across the Spider-Verse: 

Miles Morales returns for the next chapter of the Oscar®-winning Spider-Verse saga, an epic adventure that will transport Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man across the Multiverse to join forces with Gwen Stacy and a new team of Spider-People to face off with a villain more powerful than anything they have ever encountered.

Though the Spider-Verse sequel had been announced for a while, this is the first time we have confirmation that it will be a two-part movie. We don’t know what that implies, but with the Multiverse storylines starting to creep into live-action, we can only expect the animated Spider-Verse to really lean in on the concept; after all, they did start the trend.

Going back to the clip though, we see that there is also a considerable time gap, what with Miles having grown from the last film. It’s also unclear, but it looks like Miles is actually trying to run away from Miguel O’Hara in the clip, but then again, is that Miguel? The build is significantly larger.

We can’t wait to see more of the movie. If anything, it’s kind of stealing some of the No Way Home hype with the promise of an even larger crossover.

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse comes to theaters on Oct. 7, 2022.