Entertaining above all else

Rating: Null/10 (20 October 2002)

There are three great superhero movies made so far: Superman, Batman, and this one. What makes these three work so well? The humanity. I have found that far too many superhero films dive straight into the action with no build up, no characterization, nothing. But these three films all spend time to develope the human side of the superhero. In Spider-Man, Peter Parker is a high school student given the proportional strength of a spider and, after his uncle is killed, becomes the ultimate vigilante for good. Some of the CGI effects are a little less than state of the art, but that is acceptable in a movie in which the story, the acting, and the direction all work together to make a most entertaining action/adventure movie. Who's it for? Fans of the comic will get more out of it than others, but just about anyone who enjoys action/adventure films should get a kick out of it. Just sit back for two hours and turn your brain off. On a scale of 1-10, I give this movie a 7.5.