This week on Fabulous Film and Friends it’s Spider-verse vs. Snyder-verse as we’re boldly entering the portal of current comic book summer movie multiverses and discussing the latest animated Marvel feature Spider-Man, Across the Spider-verse featuring the voices of Shamiek Moore, Hailey Steinfeld, Oscar Isaac, Karan Soni, Daniel Kaluuya and Jason Schwartzman and we’re seeing how it stacks up against DC’s live action (but barely) The Flash starring Ezra Miller, Michael Keaton, Sasha Calle, Kiersey Clemons, Michael Shannon, Ron Livingston, Maribel Verdú and a whole galaxy of blink and you miss them, CGI created celebrity cameos.
My guests today are, David Johnson, DMD, Burton Brown, back from a nearly year-long hiatus, and joining us for his first FFF appearance and our first guest representing the millennial generation of filmgoers, author, hypnotherapist and all-around deep-thinker, Joe Field.
Before the portal closes, the synopses:
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse continues the adventure of Miles Morales, the second Spider-Man who follows his friend Gwen Stacey also known as Spider-Woman, or Spider-Gwen and a team of multi-verse police led by the angry Miguel O’Hara aka Spider-Man 2099 and his new archnemesis, the dimensional portal creating Spot into the Multiverse where he discovers millions of Spider-People from all sorts of dimensions whose lives are affected by the cataclysmic change The Spot has brought upon the multiverse. Or something like that.
In the Flash, Barry Allen aka The Flash, having discovered he can travel through time with his ability to run faster than the speed of light, plots to save his mother from being murdered by changing past history. The plot succeeds, except he ends up creating a world where the only superhero who exist besides himself is Michael Keaton’s Batman, and they are woefully unprepared to fend off the invasion of Kryptonian General Zod, who was stopped by Superman in the movie Man of Steel.
Which multiverse is more appealing?
Find out!