The beginning of a great franchise!

Rating: 10/10 (19 November 2006)

Nerd Peter Parker (Tobey Mcguire) is a lovable loser whom always had a crush on a beautiful redhead named Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst)as he wants her to like him. One day he gets bitten by a radioactive spider and has been given spider-like abilities like organic webs he can shoot out of his wrist, the strength of a spider, spider-sense and can climb walls as it changes his life forever! his uncle Ben recently died and avenges his death as he becomes a costumed crusader named "Spider-Man" who's job is to protect the people of the city from harm. Richard scientist Norman Osbourne (William Defoe) has been given an experiment that causes him to have superhuman strength and endurance with a new personality called "The Green Goblin" with a green costume and a glider to take down the web-slinger.
The movie that started a new comic book film franchise has dazzled audiences around the world and like "Blade 1 & 2" and "X-Men" this movie was a revolutionary movie based on a Marvel comic book. For years this movie was in development since 1985 when Cannon pictures got the rights to do a movie when it was shelved until they sold the rights to Carolco pictures with some potential directors like James Cameron, David Fincher, Ang Lee (Whom later did "Hulk") and Albert Pyun but never saw the light of day until 2000 when Sony bought the rights for the picture especially Sam Raimi who was chosen to direct it.
The film opened in may 2002 making it one of the most popular movies ever with great casting, fantastic acting, good special effects and a nice storyline made it a true crowd pleaser. The sequel is even better and more improved then this one!