Lacks the wittiness of the comics.

Rating: Null/10 (16 March 2010)

I've left reviewing Spider-Man for a long while, digesting, hoping it would grow on me. I loved Spider-Man, Stan Lee's great creation as a child, he was my favourite character.
It was great to have such diverse director, I thought it would be the perfect comic book film with Sam Raimi at the helm to bring the character to life. However, I was let down by it's gloomy nuance. It lacked the entertaining, wittiness of the comics, cartoons that even the dated 70's films captured.
Strangely, Fantastic Four (2005) and Iron Man (2008) successfully managed to capture the tone, feel and essence of Marvel and it's characters. Tobey Maguire is fine as Parker but it's a shame that the producers took the web-crawler in this drama batman-esquire direction and I'm not just talking Uncle Ben here, I mean the whole drawn-out heavy mood of the film.
The villain Green Goblin / Norman Osborn is played perfectly by Willem Dafoe, and James Franco as Harry Osborn is great, but the rest are mediocre. The special effects are impressive for the most part and the music score is powerful with a hero feel to it. however, every effect moves at such a fast pace you never really get to see spidey he's a blur for the most part.
After all is said and done Spider-Man and it's sequels are simply too much drama and not enough Spidey fun.