Lots of fun!

Rating: 8/10 (26 June 2002)

This was not exactly War and Peace, but it's a very entertaining movie. The main character was well-developed, which is important for those of us who don't inhale comics. I know there are a lot of people who complain about the differences between the movie and the original story, but come on, people, it's not 1950 any more. Stuff had to change.
The effects were very good--the exact balance between cartoonish and realistic that needed to happen.
My one disagreement with this movie was with Kirsten Dunst...for some reason, I thought she aged way, way, WAY too fast. While Peter Parker seemed to look about the same age, Dunst's character seemed to age about 20 years in the course of the movie. I understand that the plot covered a certain amount of time, but I didn't think it was that much.

Oh, well...not a big problem for such an entertaining movie. Worth seeing, especially if it's gotten to your local dollar theater by now.