mostly a disappointment

Rating: 5/10 (25 May 2007)

After seeing spiderman 1 (good movie) and spiderman 2 (superb movie) I was really disappointed with spiderman 3. It was not a bad movie and that is why I still give it a 5/10 but... There were too many villains in that movie! I am not the first person to say this but this is clearly the main problem with this movie : trying to fit too much story in too little time. A movie with just sandman or venom would have been great. If you add harry/goblin, dark spidey, gwen stacy, problems with MJ... you have a recipe for disaster!
I just thought that the action scenes were all the same. I mean... I just watched batman (1989 and 1992 tim burton version) the other day and they did not need to have the 2 villains battling each other for hours for us to understand the point. What is it with those modern movies that you always have to have 2 guys punching each other on the face for half the film? The final scene was so unnecessary I thought it would never end. I was literally sleeping in the theater.
I may be old school but the CGI effects looked FAKE. I mean, when it looks like a video game it is not a sign of good special effects!
Another BIG problem : tobey maguire! I mean... he was OK in the first 2 movies, he was kind of cute but still cool. In this movie he was ugly, fat and totally annoying (the bad dialog did not help). It was so bad I wanted harry to kill him.
Many things were OK in this film (some good action, some good characters, some funny moments) but there are too many flaws to call it a good film. The fact that they bring back the story of uncle ben... BORING! and harry who always wants to avenge its father... BORING! I mean, they are supposed to be superheros but they can not get over the death of their old parents? What is this? And gwen stacy? They could not find a more beautiful girl to play this girl who is supposed to be super sexy? And the "I forgive you" at the end... my god, And the "bad" peter parker who is dancing around making a fool of himself. Wow! I am glad I only spent 6$ on this.