Worldwide sales of $385 million on a $90 million budget speaks volumes. Now the sequel Spider-Man: Across Parallel Worlds has hit theaters, and when it comes to the audio-visual side of things, it owes nothing to the number one, perhaps even surpassing it.

From the voluptuous flow of fantastic ideas, in which nothing is impossible, sometimes the vision is lost. Still, it’s great fun to watch what the creators have come up with and implemented.

There’s no doubt that animation is a better fit than live action for today’s comic book movies. It still has something surprising and closer to comics, because the creators also used typical comic elements. And there’s also great music by Daniel Pemberton. It’s just that there’s so much to do at 140 minutes (the first being under twenty minutes) and the script can’t fill more than two hours in such a way that it’s as entertaining as the audiovisual side.

We already know from the first part that there isn’t just one Spider-Man, that each parallel world has its own Spider-Man/Woman trying to protect his own from villains and, if necessary, save the entire Multiverse. Number two is already working with this information as a matter of course.

There are a lot of very cute Spider-Man in it, for example the western one on horseback. And part of the story is based on that. This time though, nearly a third of its length is mainly devoted to family relationships, which start to get a bit boring after a while. Young Miles Morales wants to break away from his family, but his mother and father are against it, and in addition, the young man meets again with Gwen Stacy, who came to him from the Multiverse, even though he suspects he shouldn’t. .

With both his parents and with Gwen, Miles has long, highly didactic, and emotionally tearful speeches full of jokes, which, even with the best of intentions, can’t do much to entertain mature audiences. This is followed by a great middle section where Miles travels to the Multiverse where he has an amazing adventure against the main villain. But then again, for this type of film, the too-serious topic of the inclusion of individuals in certain communities kicks in. Fortunately, this section is audiovisually interesting enough that it doesn’t really matter much. Instead, the actual conclusion isn’t a disturbing conclusion because it’s all too clearly a trailer for the next sequel.

Spider-Man: Across Parallel Worlds is coming to theaters in subtitles and dubs. The dubbed ones are in the press screenings, which makes sense, because even the dubbeds deserve to be evaluated.

It comes out half-baked, the Czech subtitles are funny at times (although at this point we can’t tell if it’s more or less than the original), but sometimes the teen slang seems like a mix of modern and a bit outdated. The voices of some of the characters, especially Gwen, sometimes sound harsh to the ear, but maybe that’s the truth.