Best of a Bad Lot

Rating: 6/10 (19 December 2006)

Isn't it weird that DC Comics (well, Superman anyway) managed to spawn some decent movies while everything based on Marvel Comics is a dud?
On the printed page, exactly the opposite is true. Spider Man towers over Superman, the Fantastic Four are fantastic
Unfortunately, on screen, Daredevil is terrible. None of the Hulk embodiments has been worth a carrot and the X-men films, though OK, for me miss the magic of the haunted heroes of the comics.
The Spidey films are the best of a weak bunch, but I can't quite work out why they're not brilliant. Tobey Maguire is a great Spider Man, Kirsten Dunst makes a fabulous M-J and the scripts kind of nearly make it.