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Rating: 4/10 (18 June 2002)

I have read a lot of reviews of this movie and to be honest I was expecting a lot more than what was on offer.
Tobey Maguire plays a decent part and should go on to do the others quite well. On the other hand Willem Dafoe I thought was awful. He wasn't evil enough. I couldn't take him seriously at all. He was funny but unintentionally which was a shame because I was anticipating a lot more from him as an actor.
The film felt like an introduction. It was more of a taster of things to come. I thought Star Wars Episode one was like a taste of things to come but this takes the cake. I mean, the whole story basically consists of (slight spoiler coming up!!) Peter wants girl, gets bitten by spider, wakes up next morning as spiderman, starts wrestling, uncle gets killed, wants to put things right, meanwhile father of best friend has turned into physco, not very happy about spiderman, has a fight with him and gets beat. Is anybody sure that somebody's 5-year-old daughter didn't write this?
The only other compliant is that almost every single web-slinging scene is in the trailer, so when you watch the film you just get to see the boring bits in between.
This film summed up in one sentence is..... Overhyped poorly written love story, nice effects, a few laughs but not all of them intentional.