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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) | dir. Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman

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ElfQuest animated film is in the works

ElfQuest animated film is in the works #comics #animation

Fox has given ElfQuest a script commitment for an animated film. The one-hour drama is based on the fantasy comic series by Wendy and Richard Pini. The series is coming from Rodney Rothman and Adam Rosenberg‘s Modern Magic. Susan Hurwitz Arneson is penning the adaptation and will be the showrunner and executive producer. Rothman and Rosenberg will executive produce for Modern Magic along with…

[akasanata]

Best animated movie!

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[movieassholes]

My friends actually call me Liv. My enemies call me Doc Ock.

Doc Ock - Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

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W A T C H I N G

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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

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God I just watched Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse again (not gonna review it cause it's like the tenth time I've watched it) and it's just so f**king good. Best superhero movie ever, period. Can't wait to see the new one next week, hopefully.

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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) dir. Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman

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Homem-Aranha Através do Aranhaverso - Direção de Peter Ramsey, Bob Persichetti, Rodney Rothman.

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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) | dir. Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman

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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) dir. Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman

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Best animated movie!

Choose your favorite movie:

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[adamwatchesmovies]

22 Jump Street (2014)

Like all great sequels, 22 Jump Street builds and expands upon its predecessor. Everything that film did, this one does bigger, better and funnier.

2 years after their success in the 21 Jump Street program, Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) have moved on. After a drug bust goes bad, they are sent back to work for Captain Dickson (Ice Cube) - now at 22 Jump Street. Their assignment is to go undercover as college students and find the supplier of a new drug. So basically, do the exact same thing they did last time.

21 Jump Street was very self-aware. It knew how preposterous its premise was and delighted in poking fun at it. This same genre of humor returns for the sequel and it's cranked up significantly. That means big laughs. At many points throughout the characters refer to movie tropes, to behind-the-scenes developments that ensured this film was going to be made, to the absurdity of the 21 Jump Street program getting a sequel 2 years later and more. If there’s a joke to be said about the potential - or missed potential - of sequels, directors Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and writers Michael Bacall, Oren Uziel & Rodney Rothman have found a way to insert it in. This is the kind of film that makes you want to do some research. You want to check out all the trivia pages to catch all of the gags you missed. You want to listen to the commentary and watch the special features so you can figure out how many more layers these jokes have. Then, you want to re-watch so you can see everything you missed the first time.

More often than not, this comedy plays with your expectations. It knows that because you’ve seen the first one, you know some things will be the same and some things will be inverted so it inverted the things that were supposed to be the same and inverted the… wait. That’s not right. What I’m trying to say is that the film’s not predictable. Or maybe you could figure out who the drug dealer is if you weren’t so busy laughing.

Once again, Hill and Tatum have terrific chemistry together and their back-and-forth makes the story even better. What’s happening is ridiculous but you legitimately worry about whether the wedge being driven between them by this mission will be the end of this duo. If any series would defy the accountants and say “we’re not making a third one, no matter what”, this is it. Cementing this uproarious spirit of defiance are the end credits, which contain the best post-movie gag I’ve ever seen.

The only joke that falls flat has Rob Riggle and Dave Franco return as the characters from the last time. Unfortunately, the film goes back to them over and over. It stops the film dead every time. Otherwise, this comedy is great. It’s packed with laughs and surprises, smart gags, creative bits of writing, meta-commentary, and heart too. I’d recommend 22 Jump Street for the end credit sequence alone. I don’t know if we’ll get another… but if we do, I'm there, no questions asked. (February 20, 2019)