- Network: Disney+
- Series Premiere Date: Jan 29, 2025
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Establishing a distinctive line between fresh-faced Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man and all that’s come before while embracing the retro charms of the halcyon Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, and John Romita Sr. era is a nimble balance that Trammell and his team strike with sensational ability and care.
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The power of Spider-Man and that original formula are reinforced by the new animated series Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, which premieres on Disney+ today, and which tells an excellent Spider-Man story despite changing almost everything other than that most basic formula.
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is a visually-stunning animated series that has a fresh take on Peter Parker’s early days as New York’s only webslinging crimefighter.
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Yet another successful remix of Spider-Man and his world which nods to all that’s come before but charts its own bold path. We’ll happily hang in this neighbourhood a while longer.
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Intriguing, fun and timeless, the series is a love letter to those who’ve always rocked with the wall-crawler while welcoming new viewers into the fold.
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is a marvelously good time. By swapping out Tony Stark as Peter Parker’s mentor and replacing him with Norman Osborn, we’re treated to 10 episodes of insidiously fun superhero TV.
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It’s truly the best animated iteration of Peter Parker since “The Spectacular Spider-Man.” That said, the animation quality drags down the series’ quality exponentially. I haven’t felt strongly about how much writing triumphs over animation quality since “Hoodwinked.” .... As is, “Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man” looks great on the page, but doesn’t exactly leap, or wall-crawl, off it.
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It’s bright, high-energy and inoffensively young-skewing, having a lot of fun with its buffed-up antique aesthetic and burying its few non-confrontational points about the responsibilities of power in an avalanche of easter eggs. It’s slight, but pleasantly so.
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Yes, there's some strange animation at times, and sure, the main story beats are things we know like the back of our hand, but there's just enough here to make for a fun watch.
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A new mainstream take on the Spider-Man mythos with some big creative swings that get on base, even if they don't make their way out of the park. But it's hard to shake the sense that they still missed the mark in exploring the character's origin in a meaningful, resonant way.
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man does well to focus on the character development of its core cast, albeit to a mixed degree for a few. .... The 3D cel-shaded animation does have moments that provide a nice stylish aesthetic, particularly a few of the fight sequences and comic book panel edits. However, the animation is still often stiff, particularly when it comes to many characters' facial movements and conversations, immediately sapping the emotion out of certain scenes.
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