Simply Unbelievable.

Rating: Null/10 (12 May 2002)

Spider-Man was the best movie I saw this year, hands down. I have to say that Sam Raimi did an excellent job with Spider-Man, which I think is his first action film (the other films he did were gross-out horror flicks like the Evil Dead series). Sam does the Spider-Man name justice, even though in the movie there are several Evil Dead connections like the yellow cadillac (which is in all of Raimi's movies), the ring announcer in the wrestling scene (who is Bruce Campbell himself), and the fight scene with Goblin and Spidey at the end of the film (which reminded me of Evil Dead so much.)
All the hype, the video games, and the ads were right. This is THE movie to see this summer. And it came at a good time as well, before Attack Of The Clones invades the theaters. Tobey Maguire (Peter Parker) was excellent and I thought he fit well into his role as Spidey's alter ego. This movie, excluding it's excellent CGI and action scenes, has great comedic elements. James J. Jamison was one guy who uddered nothing but one-liners. Maguire also had some real funny moments in the movie, mostly when he's discovering his spider-powers.
All in all, a great movie to watch. I know that when the new Star Wars flick comes out we'll all be watching that, but The Spider makes his film debut in style. Kudos to Raimi!