MONDELLO: It kind of is, except the wormholes he creates are destabilizing whole universes, not to mention making Miles late for a meeting with his folks and a high school guidance counselor.

SCHWARTZMAN: (As The Spot) It's not funny. SCHWARTZMAN: (As The Spot) I am The Spot. MOORE: (As Miles Morales) So are you, like, a cow or a Dalmatian? MOORE: (As Miles Morales) The M stands for machine. SCHWARTZMAN: (As The Spot) Who said that? MOORE: (As Miles Morales) Why do people say ATM machine? Do you have an ATM machine? Preferably not chained to the wall? Nothing. JASON SCHWARTZMAN: (As The Spot) Excuse me. And yet there's a new wrinkle - a faceless guy in white with black holes all over him robbing a convenience store. MONDELLO: Not sure if Spidey's is the most started, restarted and possibly jumpstarted superhero saga ever, but with eight live-action features starring three different Peter Parkers and now two gorgeously animated 'Spider-Verses' starring Shameik Moore's Miles, it has to be up there. SHAMEIK MOORE: (As Miles Morales) My name's Miles Morales. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, 'SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE') Critic Bob Mondello says happily, 'Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse' exceeds expectations.īOB MONDELLO, BYLINE: Here we go again, again. But a box office take of almost $400 million and the film's winning the Oscar for best animated feature have set the bar a whole lot higher for the sequel. When the animated story of an Afro-Latino superhero, 'Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse,' was released in 2018, few observers expected it to become the hit - to be the hit it became.

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