PG, 140 minutes. Starts Friday at Madison. Still playing at Mystic, Waterford, Westbrook, Lisbon, United Westerly.

Good news. We have a good superhero film! Nothing like the not-good ones we see so often. “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” looks like a dream, as did its 2018 predecessor, and the look is right: animation unafraid to evoke not just the visual influences of comic books, but animation in hurtling, accelerated motion — this thing gives you something to relish every millisecond — daring you to keep up. It’s like reading a comic book, or flipping through a dozen of them, at top speed in between glugs of Mountain Dew and Dots. At its best, “Across the Spider-Verse” offers the same fluid, kinetic, eyeblink-quick storytelling that worked so well in the 2018 animated “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.” If “Across the Spider-Verse” falls an inch or two short of the earlier film, it’s because screenwriters/producers Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and David Callaham pack the second half of a pretty long movie (24 minutes longer than “Into the Spider-Verse”) with an increasingly dark and heavy threat level.