Travolta/Cage #67: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse / Teen Titans GO! To the Movies (with Alonso Duralde)

This week, we take a break from the DTV dreck to get a little more...animated, let's say, with a pair of charming animated Nic Cage jaunts into the world of superheroes! And we've got our trusty sidekick, Alonso Duralde (Linoleum Knife), to join us on this crime-fighting crusade!

First up is Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Peter Ramsey, Bob Persichetti, and Rodney Rothman's dizzying animated epic about Miles Morales' (Shameik Moore) initiation into the jam-packed multiverse of Spider-Man! It's still one of the freshest takes on the web-slinger we've ever seen, and its unique blend of animation styles has left an indelible mark on the moviemaking landscape. But more importantly for our interests, it has Nic Cage as a hardbitten, noir-tinged Spidey that gives the actor a change to break out his James Cagney impression.

Then we zap into another meta-charmer, Teen Titans GO! To the Movies, following the cherubic team of sidekicks and their desperate efforts to get a superhero movie like every other character under the sun. It's a delightful winner with plenty of great gags for kids and adults, but we're just thrilled Cage finally got to play his childhood hero, Superman (albeit one more Christopher Reeve-inflected than his swoopy-haired turn in the abortive Tim Burton Superman Lives). 

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