Miles Morales is no longer the only Spider-Man in town — he is one of thousands, and that turns out to be the whole problem. "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse" picks up the animated saga with a scale few sequels attempt, sending its hero across dozens of realities that share a costume but not a code.

What is Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse about?

Now more confident in the mask, Miles Morales is pulled into a multiversal Spider-Society run by Miguel O'Hara, where hundreds of alternate Spider-people police the boundaries between worlds. Gwen Stacy, back in his orbit after her own reality nearly fell apart, becomes his guide into a system built on rules Miles never agreed to follow. When a fight against a reality-hopping villain threatens to unravel the rulebook that holds every universe together, Miles has to decide whether protecting the multiverse means protecting one version of a story at the cost of everyone he loves. The film keeps its visual identity restless on purpose — every universe Miles crosses into carries its own art style, palette, and rhythm, so the animation itself tracks the emotional stakes of a hero who no longer fits the mold he's told he must.

About the cast

Shameik Moore returns as Miles alongside Hailee Steinfeld's Gwen Stacy, with Oscar Isaac voicing Miguel O'Hara and Jason Schwartzman, Brian Tyree Henry, Luna Lauren Velez, Jake Johnson, and Issa Rae rounding out a cast that spans generations of Spider-people and the family orbiting Miles at home.

Context & significance

Directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Justin K. Thompson, and Kemp Powers, this is the direct follow-up to 2018's "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse," continuing that film's approach of treating animation style itself as a storytelling tool rather than a fixed house look. It holds an 8.5 rating, among the higher marks in the wider Spider-Man catalog.

Watching Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse on Ktime

"Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse" streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so it plays comfortably in either language for family movie night. Watching requires a free K-Time account login — the film's page itself, including this write-up, is open to read without one, part of K-Time's Farsi-first approach to Hollywood's biggest animated releases.