The best comic book adaption yet!!!

Rating: 10/10 (30 November 2002)

Plot: A shy nerdy teenager named Peter Parker gets bitten by a radio active spider on a school field trip. Soon after he can shoot webs from his wrists climb walls and he also has spider senses ( I'm sure we all know what the spider senses are right? ok for example if a bullet is coming for him his spider senses will go off and warn him like that he has time to dodge it) Meanwhile Willem Dafoe ( Norman Osborn) has performed a risky experiment on himself at his lab and turns himself into a crazed maniac( The Green Goblin), with super-human strength, who pretty much only cares about world domination. Soon after Peter's uncle dies and Peter lives by his uncle's words ( With great power comes great responsibility ) and becomes the superhero Spiderman. Now Peter has to defend Manhattan against the evil Green Goblin.
Opinion: Spiderman was the best comic book adaptation in a long time. I loved every minute of it. Sam Raimi did an incredible job at directing this movie, he's gone a long way he was the director that directed the legendary Evil dead series which I have seen many times. Sam Raimi deserved to direct Spiderman and wow did he ever do a good job. Let's move on to the acting. The casting of this movie was phenomenal. Tobey Maguire is a really talented actor, he was put on earth to play Spiderman. He did a great job and I'm glad they chose him to play the web slinging hero. Kristen Dunst I can't complain she did a great job also. Willem Dafoe I loved the most, his acting is just incredible and he is really talented. James Franco who played Harry Osborne did a good job also. Aunt May and Uncle Ben were also not bad .
Now let's move on to the movie itself. The cgi was cool in this movie. I actually know someone that was complaining that it was too fake, what are they going to do throw someone off a building and make him swing with a rope? Also when Spiderman was fighting the people at the armour truck I heard that was cgi, I didn't even notice. Now one thing I really like about this movie is the opening theme with the Danny Elfman song. Danny Elfman is just incredible I love his music from Nightmare before Christmas to Batman he even did the main theme of The Simpsons. Yes ther was a lot of good things in this movie but there were also some flaws for example The Green Goblin's mask what was going on there. When he spoke his lips didn't move his face was still. Its Star Wars all over again ( Darth Vader). Still Goblin was cool with me, his suit was crazy besides for the talking thing its all good.
Now I've been waiting to get this out of me. For you comic book geeks, you all start crying because the director made little changes from the comic book. Well I liked it a lot better that he did it this way, the only thing he did was make it more believable do you really think a teenage boy could make web that could hold a train cart full of people come on... you know I'm right even though he is nerd ( well he used to be). Its much better that the web comes out of his wrist and its cool.
So over all this movie rocked. Its one of 2002's best movies. Its definitely worth picking up a copy on VHS or DVD. ( I know I will)
Mark: B+
Written By: Claudio De Lisi