The little teen superhero that could

Rating: 9/10 (14 May 2002)

Yes, I am a comic geek. I go to my local comic shop every week and buy anywhere from one to 5 comics (My absolute favorite being Ultimate Spiderman, which you guys should check out whether you liked the movie or not). I know that the genre of comic book movies is a risky genre. For every successful comic movie there are many more failed movies, unreadable scripts, and mindless sequels.
When I saw the first Spiderman trailer (The WTC web thing) I was very worried that Spiderman was going down the road of the last Batman movie. Tobey Maguire as Spiderman? I saw more trailers, started to become more interested, and soon I was dying to see this movie. It's definitely worse to really want to see a movie than to not be that interested in it, cause then you'll be set up for disappointment (Pearl Harbor, Final Fantasy and Lord of the Rings comes to mind for me).
So I go and see it, and I was shocked. Yeah, some dialogue is super cheesy, and yes, the CGI isn't that great. But this movie is what so many other puffed up so-called "Summer Blockbusters" aren't; it's fun. Tobey turned out to be the perfect Peter Parker, and the rest of the cast was right on. For me it was like stepping right into a comic book. It's colorful, larger than life, pure fun. My non-comic type friends loved it too. And considering how it is doing so much better than anyone could of dreamed off, I would love to see it beat Star Wars this summer. Probably won't, but then again anything is possible.
9/10, a giant step forward in the comic book movie genre.