Hello, and welcome back to what went wrong.

Hello, and welcome back to What Went Wrong, your favorite podcast, full stop that just so happens to be about movies and how it's nearly impossible to make them, let alone a good one, let alone a heartfelt sprawling, and I'm just going to say it up top, absolutely fantastic journey into the multiverse. I am one of your hosts, Lizzie,

here as always with my co-host, Chris Winterbauer and Chris. What do you have for us today?

Lizzie, we are discussing, as you mentioned, the joyous, wonderful, Spider-Man into the Spider-Verse.

And I just have to ask, had you seen this movie before, and what were your thoughts upon watching or re-watching it for the podcast?

You know, I had not seen this.

And I think part of that was I was working at IMDB when this came out, and it was like, so much of the movies that I watched were for work and not necessarily for enjoyment. I wasn't

covering this one. I'm also not a big Spider-Man fan. Not to say I haven't enjoyed quite a lot of

Spider-Man movies, but it's not like a franchise that I would seek out. So I just didn't see this.

I knew it was supposed to be great. I, you know, I knew that there was Spider-Ham and, you know, Spider-Man noir, and it sounded great, but I just didn't see this. I knew it was supposed to be great. I, you know, I knew that there was Spider-Ham and,

you know, Spider-Man noir, and it sounded great, but I just didn't watch it. And then watching it for the

podcast, I was just, I was blown away by how good this movie is. It didn't rely on the surprises. I went

in knowing all, pretty much all of the twists that were going to happen, and it didn't matter

because it's so good. And it's so sweet. And it's, honestly, I think it is the most successful

visual representation of comic book reading on screen in a movie. I think what they did in this

movie is absolutely remarkable. It looks incredible.

The cast is insane. And it's, you know, it values the story above all of that. And it's just so

nice to see. I love that they also, I think, used the idea of the multiverse successfully,

which is so frequently leaned on in these movies, cough, cough, Marvel, I think,

to diminishing returns, but not in this at all. They use it in such a brilliant way.

And, you know, I think the way that people fantasize of like, do I get a second chance?

Is that how this would work? And the answer is both yes and no, I think, in different instances

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