A 6 from a Comic Book Fan, Why?

Rating: 6/10 (13 July 2002)

I'm a mediate comic book fan, and Spider-Man has always been one of my favorite movies of all time, but this movie could have been better. I guess I was expecting something a little less cornballish from fellow MSU grad Sam Raimi and something a little more darker. All my friends say that it is based on a comic book and it's supposed to be cornballish in ways, but that isn't true. Look at Batman, that was seriously with a little and proper comedy relief in the mix. Tim Burton should have directed Spider-Man.

Don't get me wrong, I loved the action packed scenes and for once I actually enjoyed the CGI (which I normally hate). Although I didn't really care for Tobey Maguire as Spider-Man, I did, however, thought that Willem Dafoe played an excellent green goblin and who could not love the very beautiful Kirsten Dunst. The reason why I gave this a 6, is that in between all these great action scenes were these over-acted, and cornballish dialogue and romance scenes. That is what spoiled this movie.