Truly Awful

Rating: 4/10 (2 March 2008)

Considering this movie has had a lot of hype about it, you can imagine the kind of expectations that moviegoers would have of it. Many have said that the distinction between comic book fans and movie fans often reveal two very different sides to films based on comic books, and this was perhaps the case in the two previous films. Unfortunately, this film was a let down for both types of audience member.
The film has good moments: J Jonah Jameson provides most of the comedy that is actually half-funny, and there are some truly good dramatic moments that occur within the first half hour.
Other than that, the film is terrible. The performances are near to painful on all parts, although you cannot blame them in some cases when you consider that most of the mise-en-scene is computer generated. The film is at the very least half an hour too long; there is one too many bad guys; too many back-plots and the cast is too big considering each of them is trying to get the same amount of screen time. There are also things the film really could do without, like the Stars and Stripes flying behind Spiderman as he swings to the rescue...again. Pro-American sentiment is seen too often in movies, and needs to be erased. There's also the extremely corny ending taking place at dawn, and the funeral scene that seems like its recycling the ending to Spiderman (1).
Yet another example that unplanned trilogies rarely work.