Should of been the best trilogy ever, but didn't quite make it!!

Rating: 6/10 (8 May 2007)

I first saw a trailer for this film when Superman returns came out at the cinema last year, and I said that if Superman:the man of steel (to be released in 2009) was going to compete with Spiderman 3 it would have to put in a lot of time and effort. Having now seen Spiderman 3, it is an outstanding example of how deceiving trailers can be.. I really believed that it wouldn't follow in the footsteps of the Matrix or X-MEN trilogies, but it has, and for the following reasons - there is far too much coincidence: meteor with 'black goo' lands right next to Pete and MJ, Flint Marko is Ben Parkers real killer and just happens to become a villain, the woman saved in the crane disaster just happens to be Petes lab partner and Eddie Brock's girlfriend, and Eddie Brock just happens to be at the church asking for vengeance when spider man is trying to rip the black suit off!! see what i mean? this could all be forgiven because it is a fairy tale superhero film, but what they did with the romance cannot. the end of spider man 2 (by far the best in the trilogy for originality in villain, story, comedy scenes and action sequence)showed that after two films of struggling to get together, MJ was all Pete's after running from the altar. so why why why did we have to see her Broadway career end, her dancing whilst making omelette's with harry before they kiss, spider man use their kiss from the first film when he is given the key to the city by the same Blondie he saved, SPOILER ALERT and why did she have to tell Pete it was over on the bridge just because harry told her to, surely she could have whispered or made some distraction??? SPOILER ALERT Pete's cockiness and arrogance in all of this (especially the proposal scene with the violin and Bruce Campbell very funny) could of been understood and easily forgiven by MJ, along with the kiss mentioned above that he uses on Blondie, if Pete had already been infected with the black goo from the start, but i understand this doesn't happen till it gets into his bed (??)if infected from the start he could of got rid of it sooner and given venom more screen time... there was no need to go over old ground with the love triangle when it was all sorted!! Get rid of that rubbish, and spend more focusing on MJ trying to help Pete, an then Pete have an even bigger battle with Venom somewhere else (on a spaceship or aeroplane would of been interesting!!) slimming the film down to 2 hrs flat SPOILER ALERT and then it all finishing with the wedding... most of Aunt Mays lines were about the ring, and then they don't even get married in the end!! come on!! I so wanted to love this film, and it would of competed with the best trilogies like Indiana Jones and star wars were once, but i only loved the fast paced battles with goblin and sandman, the crane scene and some of the comedy scenes, SPOILER ALERT and i think the way spider man forgave sandman worked really well, so i am tempted to go see it again, but i think i will leave half and hour before the end!! also - when he dances in the jazz bar don't worry the film does eventually get back to some sort of normality!!