Good job working in the unintiated

Rating: 9/10 (7 May 2002)

For your average comic book turned movie genre, this film was well above average. Although some scenes in the film used to explain certain powers and abilities of Spider-man were slow, they were necessary to include the mass of people that did not have much acquintance w/ the web-slinger. It also managed to stay true to the story of the original much closer than any film of it's kind. It may have been a bit sappy at points but if you actually took the time to read the comics instead of just staring blankly at the drawings you would see that this fits right into the character. Tobey Maquire does a fine job showing the turmoil that is inherit in the character of Peter Parker/Spider-man. And it did a commendable job portraying the relationship between Peter Parker and Mary Jane. And those that boo the film for a lack of action need to review their comics and see how many pages there are in each one w/ Spidey just swinging around or hanging out w/ miles of monologue interposed or the pages spent on his relationship w/ Mary Jane, Aunt May, and Harry Osbourn. This is one of the few films that ever did the comic book any justice.