Fair

Rating: 6/10 (11 May 2007)

There are three major ways to look at this film.
Comic book point of view, entertainment value and finally at a sequel.
From a comic book point of view the film was a bit of a let down. MJ doesn't sing she acts, spidey hasn't whipped out any sarcastic comments, since when does harry reconcile with peter? and venom did not have enough... well venom. However, realistically one cannot and must not judge from a comic book perspective, since it is not an adaptation of the comic, but inspired.
I know the typical let downs in the film as a sequel. Too long, stories banged heads, comedy was a bit too cheesy, tobey could not pull off a 'bad' and 'mean' spidey, venom only appeared at the end, Kirsten lacked and looked bored, confusion with sandman, brock not well done by topher and so on and so forth. However this is not the case.
As entertainment value the sequel had a couple of very nice action scenes, and in my opinion all the characters stepped it up a notch, all except for tobey, to no fault of his own since the script simply lacked punch. It's a shame venom was introduced so late and they should have dedicated an entire film since the beauty of venom is that he HAUNTS spidey not beats the crap out of him. That said, I think topher stole the film. He was exactly what he was told to be and did his part extremely well! Osbourn also improved, even though the story line clashed a bit and it ended slightly twisted, but the whole amnesia arc worked well. Aunt may was definitely better and sand man was incredible. MJ was weak, and through out the entire three films has been weak, but there was a slight improvement in the character, more of the mary jane comic fans are used to. Sand man being portrayed as good works well in the comic book world since as such he is good and eventually changes sides so no real complaint there.
With all the hype it is understandable that fans were let down, but in the end it was a good and fun film and some comedic timing was very good. Even though most laughs came from peter crying on the bridge.
The final draw back was that there was a bit too much emotion. The final scene/s were a bit too much and the audience seemed bored of the characters' tears.
STILL despite the uproar among fans, it was a good and enjoyable film which I would recommend to anyone