Why wasn't MY web shooter working?

Rating: Null/10 (3 May 2002)

I can remember two instances in this movie where Spidey used his web attack on somebody's mouth to silence them. During the movie itself, I was sitting in the front row of an over-crowded theatre trying to use my web attack on the screen. Sometimes the characters on the screen just wouldn't shut up. The effects were awesome. Williem Dafoe did for the Green Goblin what Jack Nicholson did for the Joker. Tobey Maguire was a good choice. The movie should have stuck with what it was good at: special effects and action sequences. But there were so many bad "superhero movie" elements. There were at least three instances where an extra used the phrase, "Look!" or some equivalent to get everybody's attention to Spiderman and I squirmed each time. I have always been a Spidey fan, this movie captured all the things I loved about the comics; but there was some hollywood family entertainment tripe thrown into the dialogue to make Peter Parker into a lovable doofus instead of the smart-alecky photographer I grew up loving. I hope they gave the job to Tim Burton for the sequel, he knows how to make a superhero movie.