Wow!

Rating: 10/10 (30 June 2002)

Well, I saw this movie 3 times in the opening week!! Wonderful adaption of the Comic Book Characters. The few updates and minor changes did not effect the on-target direction of the movie. The changes actually made sense in this decade...the original comics were in the scare-era of the 1960's...so some change was needed with the information we have now.
Tobey Maguire is AWESOME!! Some people have griped about his deadpan delivery of the narration, but I kinda took that to be just nerdy enough to be believable.
Willem Defoe was also wonderful as the Green Goblin...but the costume they gave him STUNK! He is great at playing twisted characters (See Shadow of the Vampire)
Kirsten Dunst, I will try to be nice here, was just wrong. MJ is supposed to be a strong character, not a bubbly bimbo. Sorry.
The costumes and effects were all right-on. Thanks to Sam Raimi for a wonderful homage to this character.