Sony Pictures Entertainment debuted the first 35 minutes of footage from the upcoming animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse today at New York Comic Con. To make a long story short, it looks awesome.

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Some parts of the footage screened were unfinished -- co-executive producer Chris Miller accurately described them as looking like a '90s video game -- but the vast majority showed off the same gorgeous animation glimpsed in the trailers so far. It's a unique blend of fluid motion with little stylized static beats sprinkled here and there to evoke both old school cartoons and the stationary nature of comic books panels.Aside from the dazzling animation, the biggest takeaway was the movie's sense of humor. Like they did in The LEGO Movie, Miller and fellow co-executive producer Phil Lord, who wrote the script, are able to deliver consistently funny dialogue as the movie zips along. Into the Spider-Verse doesn't ever feel like it's trying hard to make its gags work, it's just likable and fun on every level.The footage kicks off with a version of the speech you've heard in the trailers, where Peter Parker's Spider-Man zips through his origin story in a quick, humorous montage where he tells us about his 10 years wearing the suit. This one includes some additional gags about the live action films , with an especially funny nod to Spider-Man 3's finger guns dance scene. He finishes his monologue with the foreshadowy proclamation that he is the one and only Spider-Man. Interestingly, keen eared attendees may have noticed that this monologue, unlike the one in the trailer, isn't voiced by Jake Johnson, who plays the Earth-616 Parker.When we meet Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) and his parents, Miles is rushing to Brooklyn Visions Academy, the private school he's recently begun attending. It's all fairly obligatory background exposition but it sets the stage quickly and humorously thanks to excellent pacing and plenty of genuinely funny jokes. Miles' dad (Brian Tyree Henry) is one of the highlights; even after already seeing it in the trailer, his "I love you dad" scene still got a big laugh from the packed house at the Madison Square Garden Theater.Miles gets a neat scene with his uncle Aaron, of whom his dad clearly does not approve, where the two bond over a little subterranean tagging. Of course the place they picked to graffiti happens to be next to a hidden research facility, and before you know it, a blue and red spider bites Miles on the hand.From there we see the expected scenes of Miles realizing he's been somehow changed, though Lord and Miller once again bring their meta A-game by having him pick up a Spider-Man comic book, each page of which shows Peter Parker going through nearly identical moments when he first discovered his new abilities. Miles also has a funny run-in with a familiar girl from the trailer who introduces herself as "Gw- Uh, Gwanda..." suggesting Gwen Stacy might not just be new to the school, but to this reality as well.When Miles goes back to find the spider, which he had casually swatted to death after it bit him the night before, reality sort of glitches out in geometric patterns of pink and blue, colors reminiscent of how old comics would sometimes be printed out of alignment, or perhaps of how movies were meant to be viewed through red and blue 3-D glasses. Either way, the effect is impressively jarring and highlights the creative lengths the animation team went to in order to ensure that interdimensional shenanigans could be discerned via different visual styles.Miles stumbles into the supercollider seen in the trailers, where Spider-Man is locked in a battle with a gigantic Green Goblin. Spider-Man meets Miles and the two realize they're cut from the same cloth. Spider-Man promises to mentor Miles just as soon as he takes care of this whole supervillain fight thing. He seems to have it under control until a purple and black clad baddie -- Prowler, who Miles doesn't know is really his uncle -- joins in and tips the scales.Spider-Man gets shoved into the beam of the collider and sees...something...before the whole place explodes. Miles finds Spider-Man in the wreckage, the latter coughing and looking pretty rough. Then Kingpin himself, Wilson Fisk (Liev Schreiber), comes upon the downed Spider-Man. He orders Prowler to kill him but first Parker asks, "Don't you want to know what I saw?" He goes on, "I know what you're trying to do. It won't work. They're gone." That cryptic statement is enough to enrage the Kingpin into killing Spider-Man. Even in a movie where we know there are lots of backup Spider-people, and even though it's been widely hinted that the Spider-Man of Miles' reality would die or already be dead, it was a super shocking moment.For the rest of the footage we see Miles trying to take on the Spider-Mantle, often failing in hilarious ways. The clip draws to a close with Miles accidentally debuting his venom strike when he's surprised by yet another Spider-Man, this one a pot-bellied 40-year-old with graying temples and a perpetual five o'clock shadow. This is the Spidey whose voice we heard in the trailers, but he gets a very different intro montage. In his reality, from which the supercollider seems to have removed him, he's been superheroing for 22 years, not just ten. In that time his aunt May has died and he and Mary Jane are now divorced.The action sequences and visual style on display in the footage screened during the New York Comic Con panel were truly remarkable, proving that high quality animation is the perfect vehicle to showcase the acrobatic abilities of a hero like Spider-Man. Throw in a top flight voice cast and a super sharp sense of humor and it's not hard to understand why Into the Spider-Verse is one of the most anticipated superhero movies of the year.Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse opens in the U.S. on December 14th.For more from New York Comic Con, here's our breakdown of the new footage revealed for Hellboy and the new X-Men movie Dark Phoenix . We also have early reviews up for Netflix's Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and DC Universe's Titans

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