10. It's a story about smashing all expectations and setting up your own expectations. The core of the story is about a young man who has the weight of expectations set upon him and realise that he has to set up his own expectations. It's a powerful story worth telling.
9. The animation style. Fresh, exciting, recalls comic books without being old.
8. Economic storytelling. The way the origins of the characters were done, each time, faster and faster. Realising that this movie was an origin of Spider-Man / Miles Morales.
7. Hilarious jokes.
6. Jake Johnson as Peter B. Parker. So clearly Spiderman yet also so identifiable a man on verge of a nervous breakdown. Jake Johnson was hilarious and relatable and vulnerable. The animation was top notch of course but Jake Johnson's line readings just gave it life.
5. The team work. How all the Spider-People just instinctively worked together.
4. Villains having motivation. Specifically Kingpin. He's just a guy who wants his family back. It was brief but it was real and it made him feel dangerous.
3. The glorious sequence when Miles Morales truly becomes his own Spider-Man.
2. The Stan Lee cameo. Seemed so sincere and undercut with just the right amount of cynicism.
1. That my children get to see such an awesome film with both male and female heroes (including a pig!) and we get to enjoy something as a family that really resonates rather than just colourful nonsense.
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