Spider-Ham – Caught in a Ham

Director: Miguel Jiron
Release date: February 26, 2019
Stars: Spider-Ham
Rating: ★★★
Review:

‘Spider-Ham – Caught in a Ham’ is an attempt to show how a ‘Spider-Ham’ animated cartoon would look like.

The result is a clear homage to the classic Warner Bros. Cartoons, although there’s also a Tex Avery style corridor with doors gag, while the background art harks back to the 1990s work of Genndy Tarkovsky and Craig McCracken, and the evil scientists to the work of John Kricfalusi for ‘Ren & Stimpy’. This shows that the 1990s renaissance has become as much as a reference point for contemporary film makers as the original cartoons of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s were.

‘Spider-Ham – Caught in a Ham’ is not particularly funny, and the character is way too talkative, but there’s a series of nice ‘Duck Amuck‘-like meta-gags before the short turns out to be a prequel to the ‘Spider-man into the Spider-verse’ main movie, which the short accompanies on the DVD.

Watch ‘Spider-Ham – Caught in a Ham’ yourself and tell me what you think:

‘Spider-Ham – Caught in a Ham’ is available on the Blu-Ray and DVD of ‘Spider-Man – Into the Spider-Verse’