Too Abitious

Rating: 5/10 (19 May 2007)

Bringing a comic book hero to life usually means some sort of action-packed adventure. This time Spidey takes on three adversaries - unfortunately it all gets somewhat downtrodden in background stories and set-up together with his alter-ego's ongoing romance. It all starts blissfully enough with Peter and MJ together on top of the world - Spiderman has now been officially accepted as a hero and MJ has landed a promising singing job. Unfortunately, this makes Peter somewhat selfish, concentrating mainly on his own achievements and not realising what is going on around him. In comes the first foe then the next and things go south from there for him to the inevitable climax. Regrettably, this movie is trying to cramp too much information into its two and a half hours, making it rather slow and despondent at times. The action scenes - far and few between - are as good as ever though and well worth seeing. Sadly, while the set-ups are there, it is somewhat ambiguous at best.