Very good movie, so-so writing

Rating: 7/10 (9 December 2002)

Spider-man is a very entertaining movie. The special effect were great. Also, the major characters and acting for them was very good.

Their are a few points that would have made it an even better film. The story plot was good, but the writing was only so-so. My guess is it was written by many part-time or temporary writers, using the recently more often used Hollywood pass-the-script add-or-change-a-little-more writing method that is to blame. Most of the secondary characters and some scenes were very two dimentional. For example when Peter caught his lady love AND all of the things she dropped, none of the students even noticed. None of the students made any big deal of him doing a somersault from a stand-still and then punch a quy twice his size clear across the room (except: "Wow", or "Freak").
Also, when Osbone is given his walking papers at the board meeting, the whole scene and all ot the people there seemed artificially two dimensional and emotionless.
Only other comment is that Spider-man's girlfriend could have been dressed a bit more modestly.
Anyway, overall a very good, and fun movie. If the writing for spiderman II improves it will be an even bigger hit.