This movie sucks!!!

Rating: 3/10 (5 August 2002)

What a disaster, this movie! Is it just not possible to give priority to a good story and not an overkill of special effects? Two hours of wrong acting, a very thin story-line, bad comic-research (oh god, the webshooter...) and a real drag of a romance, we were already looking on our watch halfway the movie.
Indeed the movie is better then the eighties-version, but no wonder with computer effects nowadays. Still we missed the charm that makes Spiderman nearly the best superhero on my list. Together with Thing from the Fantastic Four, Spiderman makes the funniest and sarcastically remarks in comics. In the movie they totally overlooked this strength during the fights, pity.

To give just one positive remark; the webslinging in NY were great. To bad you see it not more frequently in the movie.
We were very interested what kind of replacement was put into the movie after the Twin Tower incident but we could only detect the Stars and stripes-flag on the Empire State at the end of the movie, that's it? The movie was now again haunted with bad luck because the US Army didn't want to do bussiness with the Oscorp-company of the Green Goblin but instead did business with...Qwest! Bad choice after that fraud.
Hopefully the directors of future superhero-movies have more heart for the comic itself. The Batman-movies didn't reflect the real Dark Knight character also. Only Spawn was a bit more believable.