exciting, but not enough fun....

Rating: 5/10 (3 May 2002)

after waiting so long for this movie, i went in with mixed expectations...firstly, i was annoyed at spidey's costume: since when was the webbing made out of shiny metallic piping? i guess since the CG guys decided it would look "cooler" seeing flames and explosions reflect off of that webbing....personally, i think that always makes things seem more fake (see Episode I for proof)..and what was with the 'green goblin'? wasnt he once a goblin, not a businessman with bipolar disease?...
secondly, the dialogue and script couldnt have been worse...i found myself laughing out loud at some of the scenes (especially the corny hospital dialogue)
my biggest problem? I remember reading spidey comics as a kid, and they were always so much fun...spidey was always bantering with the super villains, making wise cracks....that is what made the comics fun, and this movie didnt have enough of that...it seemed like Raime was trying to create too dark a spidey, brooding and toubled...Tim Burton pulled it off beautifully with Batman, but spidey is a different beast....
all that aside, the action was very cool, and the effects were interesting..
this movie should have been more campy, sardonic, and alot more fun...hopefully, they'll do better in the sequel...and we had better see the Black Cat!