Pure Cheese

Rating: 2/10 (24 May 2007)

Spiderman 3
*** I must say firstly Sam Rami should not direct the Hobbit, nothing against him just that it should be Peter Jackson's film. ***
I was looking forward to seeing this film after some doubts about it to begin with. I really enjoyed the first Spidy film, the second one was disappointing but the trailers of this one looked promising. So I went out on opening night, and as expected the cinema was packed
From the moment the film began the script was cheesy, worse then your usual Comic book hero and it was cheese through out the entire film. There also seemed to be a lot of jokes added, some good and some very poor.
Maguire's Spiderman anger was as painful to watch as Anakin Skywalker's hissy fits in Star Wars, and when (I think) we were meant to be watching the Black Suit taking him over it felt more like we was watching 'The Mask', it was painful to see. Dunst was OK but nothing amazing, usual damsel in distress thing. The love triangle (or square, there was 4 of them!) was weak and I didn't really notice any emotion connection between any of them, the character of Gwen you wouldn't of missed her if she wasn't there.
Topher Grace as Eddie was my shining light (I personally feel that he would have been great casting in the role of Spiderman), his anger was a lot more believable then Spidy's despite what little background we had of his reasons and the highlight of the film was watching him as Eddie/Venom.
Also James Franco was great as the New Green Goblin, one of the few characters with a back story from previous films. He was far more charming, funny, even angry and entertaining then the other main characters.
The 3 bad guys are all played by good actors but Rami was just trying to pack too much in that none of them got a good strong storyline. You feel that Rami was saying 'right this is my last Spidy film let's go out with a bang' but instead it was just a mess of poor jokes, too much CGI and weak characters. (Once the film finished I even checked with the guy sat next to me that we all saw the same poor excuse of a Spiderman film! He agreed.)
I give the film 2 stars for its only two stars (shame they didn't have more screen time) Topher Grace and James Franco.
Roll on Pirates 3