Teenager Miles Morales struggles to adjust to life in a new school while discovering his own unique Spider-Man abilities. When a mysterious collider opens portals to alternate dimensions, he encounters multiple versions of Spider-Man from other universes, each with their own style and experience. Together, they must work to stop a threat that could destroy all their realities. The film explores themes of identity, responsibility, and courage, blending action, humor, and innovative animation to tell a story about finding one's place in a vast multiverse.
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There's a moment where Miguel has to inject himself with a mystery serum just to keep functioning, and his eyes flash red right after. It's a subtle nod to his comic-book backstory, where his abilities are tangled up with an addiction to a chemical formula, though the film never spells this out directly.
Brian Tyree Henry, Luna Lauren Velez and Greta Lee all came back from the first film to reprise their roles as Miles' parents and his aunt, giving the family side of the story a real sense of continuity even as the multiverse stuff around them gets bigger and stranger.
Newcomers to the cast included Jorma Taccone, Shea Whigham, Rachel Dratch and Jason Schwartzman, several of them coming from a comedy background, which fits given how much of the film's humour comes from small, quirky side characters rather than just the main heroes.
Daniel Kaluuya is confirmed to voice Hobie Brown again in Beyond the Spider-Verse, and he's since gone on to co-write a Spider-Punk spin-off film of his own, saying it's been exciting to keep building on a character that clearly resonated with him personally.
One of the sneakier details carried over from the comics is that The Spot's interdimensional energy doesn't register on anyone's spider-sense, his or hers, which is exactly why he's able to sneak up on Spider-People who'd otherwise see any other threat coming a mile off.
