A Perfect Disappointment

Rating: 4/10 (8 September 2008)

I never found Spider-man's overall handling by Sam Raimi appealing. All I know from my understanding of the spider-man cartoons and comics is that Peter Parker was suppose to be a tough guy. He had a troubled past. No parents, a dead uncle whose death was in some sense caused by he himself. And to me, it is plain obvious that such a man cannot be expected to be too weak. When life is hard on you, the end product is either a psycho or a man who is controlled and quietened.
I found this kind of a focus in Parker's character as portrayed in the earliest of Spider-man literature. And what do I get here? Someone who can cry! Someone who can lose his senses so much that he allows a chick to kiss him in public knowing very well that his jealous girlfriend is watching out there. Please give me a break! And why? Why does Spidey 3 have to throw in so many characters at once? Why the Venom, New Goblin and the Sandman all in one package? Why does the story of the Sandman have to be made believe to be complex and the Venom have to be so crazy in its origin? Is there some kind of a rule which says that a movie is better if it contains maximum number of elements in it? If no, then why does Spider-man have to accommodate so many characters, have the ever-growing crap of MJ being jealous and so on?
In case you are not getting my point, all I want to say is that the movie should have taken a decent plot and worked on it rather than interweaving so many sub-plots that simply cannot be inter-woven! Sam Raimi sticks to his formula of making Peter Parker look too sympathetic. MJ is made jealous! Why? So that you can sympathize with Peter? I am sorry but that just does not seem to work over here. I don't feel sorry for Peter because of MJ. I only feel like hating MJ. And then what more? You let Venom pollute the head of Spider-man so that he can actually ruffle his hair and dance in the streets winking and gesturing at the pretty ladies. What is that suppose to do? Make us feel bad for Mary Jane and say, "No, she is not so bad - poor girl!"? What is the meaning of showing a Church and some freak praying for the death of Spider-man and immediately being sent the Venom? I wonder why the religious groups could not see something controversial about that!
All in all, I would like to say that the plot of the movie is poor. You don't have to make a movie just because the previous two have been successful. In fact,the success of the sequel has to pressurize you to think hard. And sad it is for me to say this but the only thing good about this movie are graphics. I finally found something like fighting in this movie. The graphics were well done. But the plot overshadowed this.