Two Thumbs Up.

Rating: 6/10 (20 July 2004)

Spider-Man finally moved it to the movie screen and it was about time. The computer effects lived up to its end of the bargain and the actors did the best they could to make the movie a further success, but the action was left wanting. Not to mention the costuming of the Green Goblin was a joke and a half. For a movie that demands drama in its characters, where's that fair share in the action when we're sitting for two hours?
Nerdy, anti-social teenager Peter Parker gets bitten by a radioactive spider. His world never becomes the same.
Spider-Man's "origin" story stays true to its roots and everything is perfect on the comic side. Mess with Stan Lee's, "With Great Power comes Great Responsibility" moral and you're in big trouble. But the ferocity of the fights between Spider-Man and Green Goblin were terribly anti-climactic until the end when, even then, they were beating each other up instead of showing a good dramatic fight. In the end, it was good to see Spidey on the movie screen, even when dull at some moments.