Utterly tedious

Rating: Null/10 (28 June 2002)

This movie was little more than American Pie meets Arachnophobia with a bit of Tarzan thrown in. Please do not allow Kirsten Dunst to speak in movies. She was great in Virgin Suicides for the simple fact that she only had a line every half hour or so. She is wonderful at walking down the street looking over her shoulder, but there it ends. The guy playing spiderman nearly had me walking out of the theatre when he came out with that amorous drivel - "I love you too much, no, not enough, but the two of us could be, only if I didn't have eight legs"... Please. Willem Dafoe was wasted here - I would have made him Spiderman, who cares about the teenage bit.
I liked the swinging around the buildings part but all in all this film was appallingly acted. Reminiscent of the usual American nonsense coming out at the moment purporting to draw a line between good and evil - Black Hawk Down / Star Wars etc.