Authentic and Fun Recreation of Marvel's Most Popular Super-Hero

Rating: 9/10 (9 March 2016)

Director Sam Raimi and Actor Tobey Maguire manage to Formulate 40 Years of Web-Slinging with an Origin Story that is remarkably True to the First-Run Series Created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko that started in, Believe It or Not...Amazing Adult Fantasy #15 in the Early Sixties.
It didn't Take Long for Spider-Man to become Marvel's #1 Seller and one of the Most Popular Comic-Book Heroes of All Time. This Film captures the Angst and the Adventure, the Trials and Tribulations of Peter Parker/Spider-Man that made the Comic a Super-Hit.
The Movie Looks Great and Director Raimi Sneaks In some of his Off-Beat Humor and Edgy Action. The 2002 CGI is Milked for all its worth and at times is Stunning and You will Believe that a Spider-Man can "Fly".
Willem DaFoe as Mr. Osborn/The Green Goblin is Fine, although He Waivers sometimes (in costume) of Batty Beyond Belief. The Slugfests between Goblin and Spidey are Brutal and Visceral adding some Weight to the Web-Head's more Light-Hearted Roundup of the City's Street Thugs.
Kirsten Dunst is Serviceable as Mary Jane, Peter's Love Interest and James Franco as Harry Osborn (Goblin's Son) is as usual, Stiff to say the Least. Other Characters from the Comics are on hand to Flesh Things Out a bit. Cliff Robertson as Uncle Ben gets to Recite Stan Lee's Famous Line..."With great power comes great responsibility."
There's Aunt Mae, and J.Jonah Jameson, the Stingy Editor of the Daily Bugle Newspaper, who is a Returning Character in the Comics as a Nemesis of both Pete and Spidey.
Overall, this is a Grand Entertainment full of Fun and Danger. Colorful to the Max and a Really-Cool Cinematic Recreation of the Beloved Spider-Man.