Never guessed that this movie would be this good!

Rating: 10/10 (2 July 2004)

I started reading Spiderman when he debuted with Steve Ditko doing the writing and the art way back in the sixties, and have to say that this movie captured the soul of Ditko's special version of Spidey better than I would have imagined. The casting is great - the woman playing Aunt May couldn't look more like her with that chin and that mouth if she'd had plastic surgery!- and the overall look and feel of the film is true to the original comic in almost every respect. Yes, you can pick some nits about things that have been upgraded to fit current technological knowledge, but it would be just that - picking insignificant nits of no consequence at all. Watching the fight scenes left me gawking at the way they animated Doc Ocks' arms, and Spidey's movement through the skyscrapers of NYC left me with vertigo. A great effort and what the Superman movies SHOULD have been. Too bad DC didn't have the vision of Stan Lee and the Marvel group!