Warning: A FEW SPOILERS LATER ON IN THESE COMMENTS!

Rating: Null/10 (15 May 2002)

All sarcasm aside, i agree it was a damn entertaining flick ... hell ive watched it 3 times already ;P ... i suppose all of us love those parts when losers (like peter parker in this instance) beat the hell out of the school bully .. dunno what it is, it just gives one an inner satisfaction .. The wrestling part with macho man randy savage was pretty cool ... and i never recognized it was him till pete actually comes inside the ring and savage talks crap in his face ... i was like woaahhh, its macho-man himself... The hero was a bit lame, i suppose hollywood cuda done a bit better .. but then again, the lamer the peter parker character, the more added pizzaz it gives his alter-ego, ze spiderman .. The effects were simply outstanding ... brilliant ... loved 'em .. cant get over 'em .. gotta watch 'em again! esp. the absolute ending after he sez 'who am I? I'm spiderman' ... The story-line was surprisingly quite good ... usually u find a weak storyline in these vigilante type flicks .. but there was good transition and connexion in this flick ... esp. loved the part when pete realizes that had he stopped the robber at the wrestling arena, he proly wud have prevented his uncle from being killed .. Though i must say, after the part when Ben parker bukofies the immortal line 'with great power comes great responsibility' and the subsequent brushing off courtesy his nephew, the discerning viewer will immediately catch on to the importance of that line and predict ben's untimely demise sometime soon... The ending was quite ludicrous ... when MJ divulges her undying love for peter .. the lamest line was "when i thought i was gonna die, there was just one person i was thinking off and it wasnt whom i thought it was, it was u pete, u ..." ... errr whateva MJ ! When someone sees his/her death beckoning, she's petrified, possessed with fear .. and if there's just even an inkling of a chance that she can be saved, then her mind automatically looks towards that source for safety .. in this case, spiderman .. not towards a next door neighbor who cares for her ... and that little scene, when MJ touches her lips and it dawns upon her that peter is spiderman, was helluva predictable (a memorable scene from one of the batman flicks, if my memory serves me correctly) ... But, no matter how much I lambast MJ's hard-to-stomach finishing dialogues, I will not retract from the attributes of her body ... wow, what a figure... esp. when spiderman saves her from those typical newyork thugs in the rain and her heavenly body is at show for everyone to witness ;P ... Reminded me of when I was a 16yr old teenager and rewound the tape again n again for those rare bits way back in '89 I watched Terminator2 together Sarah Connor exposed her appreciable bosom for us horny teenagers to ogle at... :PP The villain now ... though not as dynamic/brilliant as Carrey and Jones in the Riddler and Harvey roles (batman forever alert), was colorful, well-acted and certainly very evil ... Dafoe, as in most of his roles, put in a determined effort and played the dissociative identity (also known as split personality) of Norman Osborn almost to perfection... All in all, a must see flick and at par with the other great superhero flicks, viz. Superman and Batman ... if not for anything else, then just for the effects alone! :)