Spider-Man Unlimited Reviews

A loose continuation of Spider-Man: The Animated Series, Spider-Man Unlimited jettisons most of the continuity built up around the character and his incredible stable of villains for a fish-out-of-water story by placing him within an alternate-Earth. This version of Earth is run by the High Evolutionary and his Knights of Wundagore, a group of characters who hardly resemble the team of antagonists presented in this series.

A fast and loose interpretation of the Spider-Man mythos isn’t a real problem, but the series never really seems to be escalating to anything in particular and was cut short before any kind of payoff could be achieved are. But before it was cancelled, Spider-Man Unlimited provided Man-Wolf with his animated debut, gave Spider-Man a pretty cool looking new costume, and upgraded the powers of Venom and Carnage. It’s an amiable show, and the animation (while incredibly inconsistent) is nicely atmospheric and stylized. It was clear that the makers were piggy-backing on the success of Batman Beyond, but it has enough charms of its own to be worth a cursory look on Netflix.