Fantastic! Spectacular! FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rating: 10/10 (10 May 2002)

Spider-Man is absolutley one of the greatest comic book adaptations of all time. When I went to see it, I had this feeling that it was going to be campy and boring. I also thought that the movie would turn out like a parody of all super-heroes. Instead, I received 2 hours 25 minutes of nothing but solid fun from begining to end.
A high school science nerd named Peter (Tobey Maguire) has discovered a new species of spider during a class field trip one day. In fact, he is fiercely bitten by the new form of spider. Meanwhile, a tycoon scientist named Norman Osborne (Willem Dafoe) is working on a transportation system for the city and may fail with his company if the test results indeed do so. Peter ends up saving his longtime crush, the sexy Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst), from falling down in the cafeteria. What he discovers is that he can shoot a web from his wrist and dodge punches and bullying by his classmates. Norman Osborne then performs a test which turns out wrong and deadly because he is accidently mutated into the Green Goblin, a creature that wants nothing but evil. Peter then discovers his own new ablities and turns himself into the famous Spider-Man, a crimefighter who stops the big busts and dealers of New York and now is assigned to destroy the Green Goblin before it is too late.
Spider-Man, I would have to say, is the best comic book movie produced incredibley ever since 1977 when Alexander and Ilya Salkind produced Superman.
Produced by Laura Ziskin and Ian Bryce, and directed by Sam Raimi (A Simple Plan, Army of Darkness), Spider-Man will blow you away completley. It will also out do Star Wars: Episode II The Phantom Menace this summer!
Coming Soon: SPIDER-MAN 2