The story of Peter Parker and Mary Jane

Rating: 4/10 (2 June 2007)

This movie was a terrible let down as a potential climax to the cinematic translation of the Spiderman comics. In the first several minutes of the movie, I was tempted to simply stand up and leave the theater. I stayed only because movies cost money and I could only hope that it would not get any worse from there.
I'll put this simply. If you are a big fan of Kirsten Dunst or enjoy the troubled romance shared between her character MJ and Maguire's Peter Parker/Spiderman, than you will have a sheer blast watching this. I'm positive it would be nearly impossible to jam Dunst's MJ into any more scenes throughout the movie without extending the reel.
The villain's story lines are thrown together sloppily and cut to very small uninformative pieces that don't even make much sense when run together. For every brief cut-scene that gives you some idea of what is going on behind the antagonist's roles, you are forced to wait through never ending scenes of Peter Parker's very dreary and emotionally turbulent life.
The Spiderman story is a backdrop to the Peter Parker story as it always has been in these films. I will simply speak for myself here but I'm sure many true Spiderman fans think the same, no one enjoyed the comics because they wanted to be Peter Parker. At least, not without the Spiderman.