Weak Adaptation to the Big Screen

Rating: 2/10 (3 July 2002)

Sam Raimi is a great entertainment director but he is not very good at adapting comic books. You can look at it from this angle: Tim Burton and Batman - that's a great adaptation to the big screen from a comic book! It had the essence of the heroe, the smart dialogues, the gothic environment, the proper casting... Spider-man is on a completely different scenario. It is a "typical holywood money making" film with weak plot, uninteresting scenarios... The problem starts with the main actor: Tobey Maguire - he's the ideal image of the well mannered boy with an inocent smile. He doesn't portray properly the "Marvel" Peter Parker! What we see in "Spider Man" (2002) is a Hollywood Peter Parker, developed in order to look as much "audience friendly" as possible. The movie has very weak dialogues - some are so irrealistic that they become pathetic -, there's an unbalanced use of special effects... This is a movie to sell, not to tell the story of the real Spider Man. It even distorts some facts about Peter Parker's powers and how he got them! This is a movie to see with lots of pop corns.