Great CG, Good Acting, Bad Script

Rating: 3/10 (2 June 2002)

This set of comments might be spoilerish, but I think it lacks enough detail to make it so. Besides, I think most people go into this movies aleady knowing what to expect. Spoiler? Not too possible
I applaud the fine work of the actors and actresses, not to mention the absolutely stunning computer graphics. However, what the heck were the script and story people doing?? I personally find the lines and plots of this movie cliche-ish and predictable. Especially with that whole inflated power/responsibility spiele and the ultimately the "girl falls helplessly in love with main character" business. Yes, she hints that she likes him throughout the movie (once or twice I think). She has something mainly for spiderman but all of a sudden, she felt that Peter was the one, and she could not live her life without him. Peter with his whole "power/resposibility" business had to squash her to a billion bits, look and walk (nose to the sky) towards to distance and had to mutter in his head "WITH POWER COMES GREAT RESPONSIBILITY" (ugh). This is something I expected to see in an afternoon soap opera or a sappy B movie. This is just a tiny bit of the beef I have with the script and story of this movie.
But perhaps people like this movie, because of the sappy script, or maybe because of the whole "don't mess with New York theme". I don't know, the entire theater audience was cracking jokes at it all the while(and rightly so I think), which was why I am so surprised that I got such high ratings!!!! Anyways, to each their own.