Disney Plus’s Best New Show Arrives With Perfect 100% Critic Scores – Forbes
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-ManThere has been a lot of buzz and controversy surrounding the release of the non-MCU animated project, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man on Disney Plus, especially in the wake of trying to potentially live up to X-Men 97.But reviews are in and so far, the show appears to be stellar. That’s judging by a current perfect 100% critic score, and an also-solid 81% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. It should be said that this is a low number of critic reviews in, just ten so far. But while it may drop, that’s an incredibly strong start for a project many were skeptical of, myself included.A perfect 100% would be the highest-rated Marvel project in history though no, it probably won’t stay there. Also on top are Black Panther (96%), Avengers: Endgame (94%) and Iron Man (94%) for movies, and X-Men 97 (99%), Ms. Marvel (98%) and Agents of SHIELD (96%) for shows. My guess it drops below all of those eventually, but yes, very strong start.Spider-ManFor a long while now, the animation style of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man has been critiqued with its low framerate (it seriously feels like about 15 fps at best) and it’s generally odd look. But I can attest that even though yes, there probably were about a dozen different ways this could have been animated better, you do get used to it pretty quickly and the show is compelling enough to eventually ignore it altogether. The action is solid.The show made headlines as recently as yesterday when the show’s Spider-Man voice actor Hudson Thames said that his “biggest fear was that [the show]Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man will run for ten episodes total, and there are two out today to get a taste of it. The airing schedule is odd. It will be three at a time for two weeks, then two at a time for the finale. Not sure what Disney’s rush is, but that’s what’s happening.The first episode is compelling and features a near-instant cameo from a big Marvel name. The show seems like it’s going to thread other Marvel characters into the story more than many recent Spider-Man projects. The overall vibe I’m getting from this is DC’s My Adventures with Superman, which has better animation, but I can feel a lot of similarities in terms of the adaptation of the characters.We’ll see how high these review scores remain, and what audiences think as more people watch. Stay tuned.Follow me on Twitter, YouTube, Bluesky and Instagram.Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy.One Community. Many Voices. Create a free account to share your thoughts. Our community is about connecting people through open and thoughtful conversations. We want our readers to share their views and exchange ideas and facts in a safe space.In order to do so, please follow the posting rules in our site’s Terms of Service. We’ve summarized some of those key rules below. Simply put, keep it civil.Your post will be rejected if we notice that it seems to contain:User accounts will be blocked if we notice or believe that users are engaged in:So, how can you be a power user?Thanks for reading our community guidelines. Please read the full list of posting rules found in our site’s Terms of Service.
