Quite a few silly moments in this movie but still a good film.

Rating: Null/10 (15 July 2004)

Alright, I just saw the movie and being a fan of Spiderman I know what was in the movie that related to the comics and what was just plain old plot line. The best thing about the character of Doctor Octopus, is that much like the character of Normon Osborne, the first twenty-five minutes of the movie are devoted to fleshing out his reasons and motivations. His sole motivation is the fact that he's been driven insane by the cybernetic equipment that he uses for his fusion experiments after his demonstration of fusion containment goes out of control due to exponential magnetic fields that destroy the building containing his lab, home, and his wife who dies when a window frame is pulled out of the building's wall. The glass from the window breaks, and kills her though you don't quite see it from the shot of her on the ground and the later shot of her body being wheeled out on a gurney by paramedics who cover her in a blanket after a brief glimpse that confirms she is indeed dead. The second puzzling moment occurs when Doc Ock has robbed the bank and only gets away with two bags of cash but in the following shots, proceeds to assemble a second, larger fusion containment machine from mail order parts. Only in Hollywood I tell ya. There's also a lot of rather meaningless sideplots that are indirectly related to the overall story of the movie such as the fact that Peter Parker is failing his college courses and is broke because he is preoccupied with Mary Jane and his life as Spiderman. However, it is the sideplot of him failing college that introduces a potential villain for the fourth movie, Dr. Curt Connors AKA The Lizard, who will probably end up as a full CGI character when in Lizard form. The only problem with that is that Dr. Curt Connors (comic-book version) was a biologist and not a physicist as the one in the movie is so the likelihood of him being the fourth supervillain that Spidey faces is rather remote. Spiderman 3 however will once again belong to The Green Goblin as Harry takes over the role his father played. I am guessing the next movie will be more of an action oriented picture with lots of good drama and whatnot. Anyway, the effects were vastly improved over the first thanks to overall progress in the VFX industry. The sound was great too, lots of active surround usage in action sequences but otherwise a fairly stereo oriented movie.