Spiderman (the movie) commits suicide

Rating: 3/10 (8 May 2007)

I don't go to watch a Spiderman movie expecting anything intelligent, but I at least expect it to keep me entertained. Spidey 1 and 2 did the job, Spidey 3 didn't. The movie can be divided into two parts, one where it seems so overflowing with ideas that the movie can't to justice to it all, and the other where it seems like they are so lost for ideas that they have to go back to parts 1 and 2. Too many villains and the love-triangle are cases in point. Let me talk about the love triangle first. If you thought that the love scenes in the Star Wars prequels were bad, the Spiderman love scenes are worse. It is stale, predictable and terribly acted (except for the half decent bridge break-up scene). Spidey and MJ have been going back and forth so much that it's making me motion sick. Stop it already. OK now the villains. Why three, with the third one appearing just for the climax fight? Black Spidey vs Red Spidey, the conflict within, would have been a good movie all by itself. Throw in one villain, and you will have a really good movie. Two and you shove the gun up your mouth, three you blow your brains out. So what else is wrong with the movie? Tobey Maguire can't dance! If anything needs to be CGI'd, him dancing should have been on top of the list. Oh, I will probably get lynched for saying this, but jumping in front of the flag was so blatant that it took all the symbolism out of it. Swinging on the flag-pole was a nice touch, but this stunt just is so gaudy that it actually borders on disrespecting the flag.