Enjoyable but stupid.

Rating: Null/10 (6 July 2004)

***Caution: Spoilers All Over the Place*** So Doctor Otto Octavius is going to demonstrate real live fusion to a small audience. To do this, he needs to attach himself to a set of strong, flexible, and artificially intelligent mechanical arms.
These arms have nothing to do with the actual fusion, but he still needs them because they... you know... move around, and help him somehow or other.
Unfortunately, the experiment gets out of control and he fuses the arms to his spine, causing them to (somehow or other) take over his brain. These arms feel bad about the failed fusion experiment, and they want to try again. They want to have a really, really BIG fusion experiment. God only knows WHY four mechanical arms should be so passionate about fusion, but they are.
And that's how most of this movie is. Like the arms, it's pretty sweet to watch, but it's also extremely dumb, and you just have to forget about that in order to enjoy the movie. This is pretty hard, though, because there are a LOT of dumb things to forget about, such as Spiderman losing his powers because of self-doubt (huh?), approximately 70 people seeing him without his mask on and promising to keep it a secret (yup), etc. I personally had a hard time with all this dumbness, but of course it's a blockbuster superhero movie, so I should probably just shut up and enjoy it. It does have some great stuff in it: I loved the action sequences, as well as the good drama and acting (I disagree that Kirsten Dunst is a bad actress)... but I still walked out of the theater thinking, MAN that was dumb.
6/10 stars.