Others, like the leader Miguel O’Hara (Oscar Isaac), are more serious and haunted. Some of them are pretty cool - most notably Daniel Kaluuya’s Spider-Punk, a British rocker who looks like he dropped out of The Clash. (Among those here are a Mumbai-like New York, a Lego land and a nightmarish alternate reality.) The portals start opening thanks to The Spot (Jason Schwartzman), a supervillain-in-training who looks like a splotchy blank page with ink drops on him.īut Spot’s powers grow, bringing the attention of the Spider-Society, a gaggle of Spider-People who guard over order in the multiverse. There are actually gobs of them, each from some parallel world. This being a “Spider-Verse” movie, though, there more than just a few Spider-Men lurking about. “I’m Spider-Woman,” Gwen says when a pregnant superhero (Issa Rae) peels in on a motorbike. But the movie again and again reinforced that, yes, they’re supremely talented, but, no, they’re far from alone.

Miles and Gwen, rightly, feel exceptional - that their problems are unique to being enormously gifted kids.

In its chaotic and jumbled way, “Across the Spider-Verse” keeps playing with these notions.

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