The much-anticipated sequel to the winner of 2019’s Best Animated Feature Oscar begins not with a drum roll, however with a drum beat.

“Let’s do things differently this time,” urges the interior voice of drummer Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfeld) as she will get misplaced in music whereas rehearsing together with her punk band The Mary Janes.

But as Gwen, aka Spider-Woman, hammers out the acquainted beats of the spidey saga (boy will get bitten by radioactive spider, boy will get tremendous powers, boy suffers household tragedy) you might discover one thing very totally different concerning the background.

While Gwen is rendered in trendy laptop animation, her world seems to have been hand painted by a watercolourist whose palette shifts in line with Gwen’s ever-changing moods.

This is the model of Earth-65, the alternate dimension the place Gwen is the webslinger and Peter Parker died in her arms after remodeling into the villainous Lizard.

Over the following two and 1 / 4 hours, the wildly progressive follow-up to Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, employs a dizzying array of animation types because it introduces us to totally different variations of the Marvel favorite.

Daniel Kaluuya voices Spider-Punk, a mohawked crime fighter from late-Nineteen Seventies London, who seems to be like a stressed collage.

Then there’s Indian-comic impressed Mumbattan and Nueva York, the futuristic residence of the multiverse’s solely humourless Spider-Man (Oscar Isaac).

But essentially the most touching scenes play out in New York the place 15-year-old Spider-Man Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) is combating an amusingly hapless “villain of the week” referred to as The Spot (Jason Schwartzman).

It’s the cow-coloured baddie’s skill to open portals to different dimensions that causes Miles to get entangled in an online of Spider-People, and reacquainted along with his first crush, Gwen.

Writer-producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (21 Jump Street, The Lego Movie) have delivered one other subversive superhero basic that’s wickedly humorous, fantastically scored and gorgeously animated.

But it’s Miles and Gwen’s love story and their touching household dramas that preserve this high-s

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Cert PG, In cinemas now