I'm so sorry spidey, this just didn't work.

Rating: 4/10 (8 June 2008)

Spider-man 2 is still the finest thing to come out of Marvel. It's a dazzling achievement in action cinema. That never takes itself too seriously and, though I may have reconsidered at times is, is fully deserving of its five star review. This and the fact that Part cone was a very good film means it's so excruciatingly painful for me to give this film a bad review.
But a critics gotta do what a critics gotta do. It's a pretty lousy film focusing solely on the development of Parker and MJ which is far more irritating than you'd expect. Naturally spider-man 3 looks amazing. Its stunningly well made. But like many of 2007's outing it's a hollow attraction. Spidey 3 is neither as dark or as important as the trailers make it seem. Its merely a series of events with no purpose and much like Shrek the third suffers massively in comparison to its predecessors. Really spider-man 3 is just action packed nonsense that will leave the eyes dazzled but the heart 8unmoved and won't have you reaching into your wallet any time soon.
Your friendly neighbourhood web-slinger is back, only this time his sunny outlook has become partially overcast in the third chapter of director Sam Ramie's Spider-Man saga. Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, and James Franco return to reprise their roles from the previous two instalments, with Thomas Haden Church, Topher Grace, and Bryce Dallas Howard making their first appearances in the series as Flint Marko (aka Sandman), Eddie Brock (aka Venom), and Gwen Stacy, respectively. Peter Parker (Maguire) has finally learned to walk the middle ground between being the superhero that his city needs, and the man that Mary Jane (Dunst) loves. All is well in New York City until one night, as Peter and M.J. set gazing at the stars, a falling comet streams across the sky and crashes into the ground close by.
But this isn't any ordinary shooting star, and upon impact the mysterious space rock is split open to reveal a shape-shifting symbiotic with the power to overtake anything that it comes into contact with. Later, as Harry Osborn acquires his late father's flying board, engineers a powerful new Goblin outfit, and takes to the sky to avenge dad's death, the mysterious space sludge infects both Peter's Spider Man suit and ambitious street photographer Eddie Brock (Grace). His strange new suit giving him a newfound sense of power as it gradually overpowers his personality, Peter discovers that escaped convict Flint Marko was in fact the man responsible for the death of Uncle Ben (Cliff Robertson). Unfortunately for Peter, Marko has recently acquired the power to morph at will and quickly completes his transformation into the dreaded Sandman.
The citizens of New York City must once again call on Spider Man to fend off destructive forces that are far too powerful for the likes of mortal man.
In all Spider-Man 3 is far more of a chore than a film, forgetting the simplistic beauty of the first and adding so many webs it's hard not to get tangled. The best advice I could give you is not to expect Spider-Man 2 you'll only be disappointed.