Emo Peter?

Rating: 2/10 (5 May 2007)

Dreadful... Atrocious... It's finally clear to me that James Franco is indeed a terrible actor, Thomas Haden Church needs to stick to comedies and Icehouse VOs, and Tobey Maguire is revealing the weenie that he really is. At one point, they have him doing a song-and-dance number. Wow. And the clue that he's "bad Peter" as opposed to "good Peter" is his hair brushed down in his face, emo-style.
It's visually stunning, as you'd expect, but the plot, acting and dialog are horrendous. Sam Raimi needs to let David Koepp write, and he can stick to the visuals. Camp works in Evil Dead, but for the Spider Man franchise? In the words of Bill Walton, "Verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry disappointing!"