Spiderman the Musical:, or Too Many Villains

Rating: 5/10 (20 May 2007)

They really should call the film Spiderman the musical. The strutting sequence and the reference to Saturday Night Fever was funny for the first minute, then went on far too long. The scene in which Peter starts dancing in the club was for me the moment where the film started to jump the shark. The special effects were excellent, but there were too many villains- they could have left Sandman out of the picture. I could see the shock at the end coming a million miles away (my hubby saw it was coming too). There was too much going on. Spiderman 3 needed cutting- cutting out all the musical numbers would help tremendously. I agreed with the critic: Mary Jane's singing sucked. Did we really need another two scenes with her singing again?