Review: Ultimate Spider-Man: Web Warriors ”Night at the Museum”

Spoilers Below

The cast of Jessie heads into a museum, but they accidentally set off the Camelot statue. This causes everyone to have their Halloween costumes deemed with powers plus Morgan La Fey comes to life and promises to bring darkness to the world. Before she heads out, she traps Spidey and the Jessie cast and then turns the museum alive complete with cavemen and skeletons roaming the hallways. After barricading themselves in a room, everyone gets attacked by an earthworm. Spidey saves the day, but then Jack O’ Lantern shows up and readies to destroy Spidey and the class!

Spidey defeats Jack, but when he tries to take off with the Ross’, Jessie gets captured by a caveman and is almost cooked. Thankfully, Spidey kicks the shit out of them, but a trike skeleton starts to charge the group, but Spidey manages to round everyone up and lasso the dinosaur for a ride! Morgan shows up to try and claim the Camelot sword from Jesse, and she does so by spawning a big huge fire-breathing dragon.

As Spidey takes the Ross’ and tries to escape, Jessie decides to fight Morgan all by herself, and I gotta say, she’s kicking ass! Ravi tames the dragon, but Morgan is able to grab the sword from Jessie. However, Spidey shows up and runs over Morgan with Ravi’s new dragon, then grabs the Camelot sword and sends Morgan back to whence she came. To thank Jessie and the fam for being good sports, Spidey brings everyone for a ride aboard a S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier!

I had made a solemn promise that if this episode of Ultimate Spider-Man made ONE mention of their bastardized take on Agent Venom, that this review was going to be an automatic two. How this franchise is treating the beautiful mythology of the symbiotes is and absolute disgrace and the producers should really be ashamed of themselves.

Fortunately, this crossover special featuring the cast of Jessie, made no mention of Venom so we can pretend that none of that other stuff is even happening. What we DO get is a rather entertaining take on the mythos of Morgan Le Fay, a medieval figure that most people may not know about, the writers sure did a lot of research on how they wanted to mix her background with the Excalibur sword and throw that into the Spider-verse with a secondary cast. Jessie was maybe the most entertaining character of the night, as she legitimately came off as a bad-ass hero, swinging her big-ass sword like she just don’t care and proving everyone that gingers can definitely kick butt. There were a lot of comical elements to be had too, like Zuri essentially trolling Spider-Man by wearing a Doc Ock costume and Jessie’s snappy one-liners going off on Morgan while they do battle.

Disney has been riding crossovers a lot the last couple of years with Phineas and Ferb being the most common use featuring characters from Marvel, Star Wars, and the like. For Ultimate Spider-Man, the writers wisely took the premise of the series and made THAT the hero, which can usually be a rarity when you are trying to mix two franchises into one show. This one…works.