The movie made me want to gnaw my arm off.

Rating: Null/10 (6 May 2002)

I love Spider-Man and think he is, by far, the best super hero ever to grace the pages of a comic book. This movie, however, is the worst piece of crap to ever be projected onto the big screen. The action sequences go by too quickly, seem more unrealistic than they should, and never let us get a feel for Spider-Man himself. Where are his smart-a** wisecracks? Tobey Maguire does a good enough job with Parker, but the only person (I thought) who had the potential to save the movie was Willem Dafoe as the Green Goblin. And what's up with the whole Peter's been in love with Mary Jane since he was 6? Parker didn't even meet MJ until college. The whole "love plot" was too sappy, too Hollywood...they made Spider-Man a chick flick! And I'm a chick, and I still hated it! What happened, Raimi??? That's the basic problem with all of the movie-- it was too "Hollywood." It was like any other action movie. It's like Raimi just took parts from all the good action movies and put them together. There was nothing new, nothing creative, nothing to get into. During the movie, I never cared about Parker, Aunt May, Uncle Ben, MJ, Harry, and barely cared about Norman. And I really wanted to care about them, b/c I had high expectations for the movie. It turned out to be the biggest theatrical disappoint of my life. Well, besides "Woo."