If you're a Spider-Man fan you will loathe this film

Rating: 4/10 (8 May 2007)

I'd read some of the lukewarm reviews for this film on a few other film sites, but I was still prepared to give it a chance. But how wrong I was! The film is just plain bad, it's like an episode of Dawson's Creek and they just happened to put Spider-Man in a few shots. I had to turn to my brother at one point and ask when Spider-Man was going to pop up in the film. We spend so much time with Peter Parker, MJ, Harry and Gwen emoting that you forget this is a film about one of the most dynamic superheroes.
The script is lazy and when there are action scenes they just end in the middle of them. The crane scene, which is one of the highlights of the film, just seemed to stop when Spidey (and Sam Raimi for that matter) could have done so much more.
When Pete becomes Emo-Pete (you'll know it when it happens) the audience laughed out loud. In fact all the Emo-Pete scenes are just bad. It's not like Pete is evil, just a bit of a d!ckhead. I was expecting so much more after Spider-Man 2, but this was just plain bad. So bad people were leaving the cinema before the end. This film will do VERY well at the box office, but it'll be lucky to shift a dozen copies on DVD