Awful. Just Awful.

Rating: 4/10 (4 January 2009)

I really do love the Spider-Man movies. In fact, up until the Dark Knight came out, I considered Spider-Man 2 to be the best superhero movie ever made. But then they made this movie, which practically ruined the franchise for me. The plot is stupid, cheesy, and completely over the top. It's also incredibly crowded, with almost 5 different story arcs occurring in 1 two hour movie, none of which fit together at all. the acting is horrible, the comic moments are horrible, and they ruined just about everything about the characters, especially Venom, who was in the movie for about 10 minutes altogether, and was never cool or threatening in the slightest. I mean come on! Who was the person making this film who decided to make Venom one of the movies lead villains, and then thought, "Hey, you know who would make a cool Venom? That kid from that 70's show!" They didn't even change his voice when he became Venom! He just sounded like Topher Grace, which is a stupid idea for the voice of one of the creepiest spider-Man villains ever. But enough about that. The movie also makes very little sense (Sandman crying? Really? He's made of sand morons! He can't cry!), completely changed Spider-Man's origin story, which made it lose all of it's impact, and served to be nothing but a really over-the-top rehash of the previous two films. In my opinion, this ranks up there with films like Batman and Robin and Spawn as one of the worst movies in this genre, and how it has such a high rating here on this website is really confusing to me. But oh well, at least we'll get Spider--Man 4 right? Maybe that will help fix the franchise. Oh wait, they canceled that, and now we're getting a spider-Man reboot that puts Spider-Man back in high school. Great. I'm sure that will be a lot better. That was sarcasm, by the way. That's an awful idea for a film. I'm getting off point though, the point being, Spider-Man 3 sucks. Big time.