"Spider" fails to live up to hype

Rating: Null/10 (11 June 2002)

I did not go into Spiderman thinking it was going to be the greatest movie ever,I just went in hoping it would be good like most reviews were claiming.It failed and I found myself rather bored at times,not to mention annoyed at the dialogue and some other factors. Problems: 1. If you thought the Star Wars romance was corny,forget it! I found myself groaning and flopping around in my seat whenever the Spiderman couple was on screen.Not only did Kirstin Dunst and Toby Maguire have no chemistry whatsoever,I wondered how Kirstin ever got into the movie industry.Then again,when has bad acting been a problem? 2.The dialogue was extremely hokey at times,such as a scene involving Spiderman's uncle telling him some "fatherly advice".Yet no one else has seemed to notice this. 3.It just lacked the intelligence of X-Men and any real humor or anything interesting.The characters were not very interesting and they were rather flat. 4.The Spiderman effects were clearly computer and there was nothing thrilling about the flying sequences. Nothing personal to Spiderman fans out there,I just didn't like this movie very much at all.I really do not understand how it has been so popular. Rating:4 out of 10.