Not good!

Rating: 1/10 (26 October 2009)

Shame on you, Sam Raimi! How can you take one of the most iconic comic book characters of all-time, and end up with a movie like this? What are you doing? I've got to ask how Sam Raimi ended up in the director's chair of this movie in the first place. What had he done to prove himself worthy of taking on a project of this magnitude? The "Evil Dead" trilogy? Give me a break! Those B-movies should have been used as evidence to show he wasn't the right man for the job.
I could go into detail on each and every single thing I had a problem with in the movie, but I don't have enough hours in the day to write them all here. I will, however, go into detail on a few things I found particularly frustrating, or laughable.
Soft-spoken nerd Tobey Maguire once again robs his character Peter Parker/Spider-Man of all his comic book counterpart's charisma and sense of humor. Casting Tobey Maguire in this role has got to be one of the biggest casting mistakes of all-time.
Kirsten Dunst is no better as Mary Jane. She manages to zap any hint of spunk her character had in the comics, and portrays her very melodramatically, and at times it's just hard to watch.
As far as the scenes are concerned, there is one that stands out in my mind as being the worst. That's right...the train scene.
The train scene rates right up there with the utter ridiculousness of Shia LaBeouf swinging like Tarzan from vine-to-vine in "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull". You mean to tell me that in New York that even though the true identity of Spider-Man is revealed to an entire train full of people that not one single person decides to make trouble for the wall-crawler by going public with his identity? Yeah, right...
After three Spider-Man films from Sam Raimi, I say it's time to go back to the drawing board. Let's reboot the franchise, get the casting right this time, let's leave out the camp, and get to the core of what has made Spider-Man one of the most beloved characters of all-time. Spidey deserves so much more than this!