This one lacked focus.

Rating: 3/10 (1 January 2008)

Sad to say out of all the Spiderman films this one lacked thematic focus. It's not that you can't have light-hearted comedy mixed with drama but the light and dark were so contrasty it tend to hurt ones eyes.
First things first, you have Peter Parker as a main character as well as his alter ego, Spiderman. Right there you have two threads to follow. His personal life and his superhero life. Add two villains each with personal lives and villainous lives. Add Harry Osbourne Jr.(James Franco)who flips back and forth between good and bad, Mary Jane Watson and Gwen Stacy as a convenient love interests.
This in itself is a feat to maintain any level of consistency while tying together a meaningful plot. What seemed like a good idea, was to give everyone a real human conflict that was magnified by their alter-ego. That way we could connect to everyone, and no one at the same time.
Because let's face it at the end of the day this movie personifies everything bad about the comics 'kids' used to read 30 years ago. Comics have gotten better...I just don't know why nobody is paying attention.
There were parts that were soooo whacky that I really believed Jerry Lewis was going to step into the scene screaming, "LAAAADY!". Granted those scenes in and of themselves were sometimes very funny (J.J.Jameson especially) but man...not the right movie for it. There was no spine to the story and too many cooks in the kitchen. Simple as that.
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