Dumb, dumb, dumb

Rating: 1/10 (7 May 2007)

Spiderman III is one of the dumbest films I have ever slept through. Its pasteboard characters, its sub-literate moral prattle, its cornball special effects - will appeal only to little children.
It might at least pass for harmless entertainment - except that it goes far out of its way to teach a harmful message - which is, that you must "turn the other cheek", or risk becoming as bad as a person who injures you. Of course, this "moral" is unworkable and therefore cannot be consistently applied. Spiderman will continue to go after the bad guys, whatever syrupy lessons May Parker may try to foist on him. Still, it is demoralizing to be told that going after evil is itself evil - and such pap should not find its way into films that are shown to impressionable children.