Spiderman Review

Rating: 9/10 (20 March 2011)

There is no doubt Spiderman is an excellent movie. I would highly recommend this film to movie goers as this incredible yet lifelike action film is paced by the plot and the characters to keep the interest of the audience. This movie takes the comic book genre to the next level. The directors reinvented the comics into an epic journey by enhancing the already brilliant characters and making them more realistic similar to the movies X-Men and The Hulk. What captivated my attention the most is the unbelievable fantastic special effects. The theme is a super hero who fights crime in New York City and stops criminals making the world a better place.
The plot of the movie is about a high school student name Peter (Tobey Maguire) who is transformed into an ultra-superhero after he is bitten by a spider that has been genetically altered in a lab. Once Peter transforms into Spiderman he discovers that all of his senses are enhanced such as the ability to hear and see better, climb buildings with his spider hands and swing from building to building using his web as a brace. Spiderman starts to develop feelings for a fellow classmate named Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst) and she falls for Spiderman. Peter takes a liking to becoming a super hero and fighting off criminals, Spiderman becomes famous and all along no one knows who the real Spiderman is. Then comes the Green Goblin/Norman (Harry Osborn), Norman is the father of a close friend of Peters who develops an alter ego from testing a dangerous chemical on himself. The Green Goblin makes it a mission to destroy Spiderman and uses Mary Jane in the process by kidnapping her and putting her in a harmful situation in an attempt to attract Spiderman. In the end Spiderman defeats the Green Goblin and the movie ends with a cliff hanger because Green Goblin/Normans son Harry (James Franco) vales to destroy Spiderman for what he has done to his father.
The angles of the film are very important to captivating the audience and relating to the theme as a major part of the film is Spiderman gliding in the air making the angles and lighting tie into the importance of making Spiderman's action shots appear realistic and lifelike. This is important to the theme because Spiderman is a Superhero that stops criminals and makes the world a better place.