entertaining...but not as griping

Rating: 7/10 (4 May 2007)

I love the first 2 spider man films. The simple fact that they are popular with geeks and non geeks alike is amazing. Rami has done a fantastic job with bringing Ditko's comic to life so far. The films have been griping in everyway...emotionaly...special fx....action....drama...character...cheesy comedy..etc.
Now, about the third film. I found it EXTREMELY entertaining. The action and effects were awesome. The way they presented the characters were interesting and unique. Venom is done really well as is dark spidey, mj, harry, and sandman. However its all a bit too much to be in one movie. The film rides on its action and fx, and sacrifices the tender character stories that made spidey 1 and 2 fantastic. There is just too much going on. There is like 5 main subplots...and im still trying to figure out the journey peter was trying to make. I honestly didn't feel there was enough duality in peter vs dark spidey....plus Venom doesn't have nearly enough screen time and Sandman has way too much. The mj/peter subplot that was so amazing in the other films is almost gone completely...its touched on for a bit but your left wanting so much more it hurts to have the movie be over. However, it was REALLY fun to watch and very pretty to look at.
Basically, i think SPIDER MAN 3 succeeds as a fun film with lots of rewatch value...but it just has too much going on to let you become involved in the story and what they do focus on are the wrong plot points.
just my opinion.....ITS TOTALLY WORTH SEEING THOUGH.
PS. Harry's character steals the show and is incredibly well done. You care more about the GREEN GOBLIN JR than you do SPIDER MAN. lol. but harry was so awesome...im OK with that.