Spider-Man 3 and the comedy of errors.

Rating: 3/10 (22 July 2012)

I must admit when I saw the previews for it back in 2007, I wasn't all that enthusiastic about it and for good reason: I had a gut feeling that it wasn't gonna be as good as the previous films as sequels have a tendency to falter and fall after their second installments(I'm looking at you X-Men 3) so with all that I went in to Spider-Man 3 and words cannot express how utterly disappointed I was. Having recently re-watched it on DVD, I can see the MAJOR problems with it which I will list numerically.
1. Too many villains. Remember way back when Spider-Man 1 and 2 had only 1 villain? That's how focuses the films were. You got into their heads on what they were feeling and their evil plans were and etc. But they were also well-developed characters and the audience cared for them as things went along. Sandman was the only character that was developed and was simply awesome. Too bad the same can't be said for Venom and New Goblin; they pretty much was window dressing.
2. The acting. Thomas Hayden Church was wonderful as Sandman and did a great performance but the most laughable part is the emotional scenes between Peter and MJ. Stiff, fake, constipated is what comes to mind with these scenes; hell, it might as well have been scripted for a sitcom.
3. The humor. Spider-Man 1 and 2 had great sense of humor. Not this time. It's more on the lines of "McHale's Navy" kind of humor. The kind that makes you want to bang your head on the table or against the wall if you're so inclined, which I don't recommend you do or I'll be blasted for promoting self harm.
4. Peter acting like a doofus instead of being the bad-ass, evil villainous persona when he's under control of the symbiote. Venom was NEVER like that in the comics or animated series. In Spider-Man: TAS, he was very close to his comic-book counterpart. This version of Venom in Spider-Man 3 is more of a creepy Pee-Wee Herman rather than a alien symbiote.
5. Gwen Stacy. Though I liked her in this film as well as the reboot, I felt she was unnecessary in this. She didn't do much in the film and after the dinner scene at the restaurant, which was admittedly funny, she was completely forgotten about; never to be mentioned again.
There are so many things wrong with this movie that I simply can't list them all. If you liked this film, fine, more power to you. But this one's a stinker for many of the reasons stated above. I'm glad that they rebooted the series after this because studio interference, NOT Raimi, ruined this film. It made a lot of money at the box-office but to be honest, Spider-Man 3 is nothing more than a comedy of errors.