Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse Is America’s Longest Animated Movie To Date
Though I loathe the recent trend of Hollywood movies absorbing my entire day with ridiculously long runtimes, animated movies have been the exception. You can usually count on an animated film to get to its point and get you out of there within 90 to 120 minutes. Usually.
The website Collider spotted something unusual about AMC’s listing for Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse, which just went up: it’s two hours and sixteen minutes long. While that’s shorter than the live-action superhero movies that tend to push three hours, it’s a lot longer than animated movies typically go.
If there’s one cartoon movie we would trust to take so much of our afternoon / evening away, though, it’s this one. Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse is one of the best animated movies of all time, if not one of the best movies period, and we’ve been waiting impatiently for this sequel for years. More time spent with it is fine with us. For the record, the longest animated film in existence, currently, is the anime movie In This Corner of the World which takes 168 minutes to play out.
I’ve spoken about my self-imposed limit of two hours and thirty minutes for any movie — if they go longer, I’m skipping the theater for the home release. If you can’t give me an intermission, I’ll make my own. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, another movie I’ve been anticipating, comes in at…..two hours, 29 minutes. Eeep. Cutting it close, are we?
Hopefully, animated films will continue to keep it slim. Let’s hope we don’t have to deal with a three-hour Shrek 5 in three years.
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