6 great movies to watch for fans of Spider-Verse

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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was a watershed moment for American animation. The 2018 superhero action film won the hearts of audiences with its bold, impressionistic art style and comic-inspired flourishes, ushering in a wave of similarly stylized, artist-driven movies to follow. By all accounts, the film’s sequel, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, has set another benchmark the American animation industry will strive to reach in the years to come.

If you’re looking for some of the best animated films in recent years inspired by Into the Spider-Verse, or at the very least something similar to sate your appetite for beautiful, bighearted animated storytelling, we’ve got you. Here are the best movies for fans of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse to watch on streaming.

Year: 2022Run time: 1h 40mDirector: Pierre PerifelCast: Sam Rockwell, Marc Maron, Awkwafina

Every character in The Bad Guysis so lovingly rendered, animated, and detailed that you know the people who worked on them are their biggest fans. Yes, haters could make a cheap furry joke, but c’mon — it’s 2023, we can admit that sometimes anthropomorphic animals are hot. And that’s especially the case with the suave Mr. Wolf. The filmmakers knew what they were doing when they gave Diane Foxington a little eyebrow piercing!

Come for the hot animals, stay for the stylized animation. In The Bad Guys, this is especially clear not just in the painterly effects and backgrounds but how the characters move. Director Pierre Perifel really wanted pushed, pose-to-pose movement for the characters, and it works beautifully well to highlight the different ways that the animals move. Mr. Snake is especially a treat, with his coils used as arms in posing. It’s a fun romp,