Whoa!

Rating: 8/10 (5 May 2002)

This film left me dumbstruck, and afterwards I just kept visualizing myself leaping over the theater seats and swinging over some balcony barriers. No, I did not want to become a monkey, but watching a live-action Spider-Man on-screen coaxed me into suspending disbelief for a short while; if you'd told me immediately after I saw it that you'd seen someone swinging across the skyline, I'd have believed you in a second. I wanted to be the wall-crawling superhero, but I also wanted to be Mary Jane as well!

Tobey Maguire portrays the average guy who's suddenly blessed with extraordinary capabilities, and he shows how Peter Parker grows into the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man New York comes to love. Even though I initially thought that he wasn't fit for the role, he proved me wrong. Go see this movie.