Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse

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ANDY’S RATING: ★★★★ In cinemas on Wednesday

BY now we’re all sick of hearing the one about the kid who gets bitten by a radioactive spider.

Weirdly, this new Spider-Man movie spices things up by doubling down – or sextupling down – on that hoary old tale.

In this witty, wacky and wildly original adventure there are six Spideys with six very similar origins stories.

Teenager Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) has his close encounter with a funny-looking arachnid while spraying graffiti on the New York subway. And when Peter Parker is killed in front of an inter-dimensional portal he decides to climb into the famous onesie.

Soon five more Spideys appear.

We get a paunchier Peter Parker (Jake Johnson), a film noir Spider-Man (Nicolas Cage), a Japanese anime Spider-Girl (Kimiko Glenn), a Spider-Woman (Hailee Steinfeld) and, weirdest of all, a Looney Tunes pig called Spider-Ham (John Mulaney).

Each of them is animated in a different style and obeys very different rules.

Tom Holland is doing a fine job as the webslinger in the Avengers movies but I think this alternative Spider-Man has legs.