Good action, corny flick

Rating: 5/10 (4 May 2007)

Spider-man 3 had some fantastic fight scenes. Spider-man fights Venom on top of a taxi hanging 80 stories in the air! That is gold! Shoving Sandman's face into a subway train? Classy, classy stuff. Top marks for the sweet fight scenes. However, the action just wasn't enough to save the film from what were, in my mind, some of the cheesiest lines in history. You know, it's not even that they were cheesy. It's like they were pulled directly from the comic book, so if you don't mind that, then you'll love the movie. My point is that, when I heard lines such as "Tell it to my father. Raise him from the dead." or "I'm not a bad person. I just have bad luck.", it was all I could do not to laugh. I don't know how the theater was when you went, but in mine, there was definite laughter at parts that were intended to be serious. It's not the actors' faults, I thought they were all incredible. The script just lacked realism, it didn't sound natural. However, that's not to say that there weren't some funny lines, including the funniest cameo I've seen in a while by Bruce Campbell. Plus, who doesn't love J. Jonah Jameson?