Spider-Man trips and falls with a terrible script but still manages to succeed.

Rating: 6/10 (2 June 2007)

Here we go boys and girls it's the incredible, the fantastic, the amazing Spider-Man! The first was great and the second, despite almost everyone's oppositions to any and all sequels, dominated overall. Now Tobey McGuire, Kirsten Dunst, and James Franco have returned to fulfill their obligations to Spider-Man 3, it says so in their contracts. The greatest Spider-Man film yet!...or so we're told. Yet after watching Spider-Man3 It took me a good long while, three days in fact, to decide whether or not I liked it.
In the end I liked it, but not in the traditional sense. It's more along the lines of having a best friend for years and finding out that they didn't invite you to a party, I mean you still like them but you feel betrayed.
That's what Spider-Man 3 is like and what is the one single factor that takes the Slinger out of Web-Slinger? The script.
Yep the script is bi-polar, its dark and depressing one second and bright cheery for the next ten minutes. Yep, that's a balanced tone for a movie. This was painfully obvious where in a scene with Peter and MJ they are breaking up, Peter is fine in one shot and then is sobbing in the next. What? He's already crying? No build up to tears like all other humans? Hmm, I guess Peter Parker is Bi-polar too.
As a side note Mary Jane gets kidnapped AGAIN, she glorifies the fact that no girl should, under any circumstances, date a super hero. So girls if you are dating a super hero break it off now, your only going to be kidnapped and set up as bait for him.
Also the movie asks a lot from the audience in terms of feelings of remorse when it comes to Harry Osbourn, when he first attacks Peter (great missed opportunity for his Spidey-sense to go off BTW) he hits his head and is unconscious, we see him in the ER and at first it looks like he may die. People in the theater are sniffling for him hoping it isn't true, it isn't. Yet a few for more scenes later he fights Peter again and is "Blown up" by a pumpkin bomb, OK now Harry must be dead he was hit with a BOMB. So we conjure up our feelings of sympathy one more time but no, believe it or not he's still alive. Now you get the feeling that the movie is pointing and laughing at you saying, "Haha made ya cry!" So at the end when Harry final does die, you've already cried over his "death" twice that you just don't care that he's finally dead.
Now for other things thats wrong here is not only the villains but the casting decisions for them. I have nothing against Topher Graces he's a fine actor but I can't look at him and not see Eric Foreman, I almost expected Red to come out behind Topher saying, "I'm gonna put my foot in your ass!" Despite my disagreement having Sandman in the film I ended up liking him somehow, he was a different kind of criminal, he actually put his daughter before himself.
Harry/ New Goblin as he's called, because i guess Hobgoblin was already taken, looks cool but he pretty much flies on a turbine engine snowboard.
Venom, the one villain everybody wanted over all only makes an appearance the last 25 minutes. Reasons for this is that the Venom back story is very long. In fact had they done everything leading up to venom it would easily fill out two movies, but fans wanted Venom and so he was written in at the last second and then is killed off after 25 minutes of air time. Bye bye Venom, the greatest Spider-Man super villain doesn't get more than a half hour appearance because Sandman is more important.
Now I'm sure your wondering, Dude you sound like you hated this, what's up? Well like I said I don't, despite everything I said I was still entertained by the action sequences the dark undertones, and finally a good cameo by Stan Lee. But it's all weighed down by a terrible script that Stan Lee himself wouldn't approve of.
Even with all of this Spider-Man 3 is still one of the most grossing movies of the year, so a lot of people still liked it. I can only hope that Spider-Man 4 which is unlikely to have the same cast (we all know how well those kinds of movies do wink-wink) gives us a better script that we could get interested in. So my score for Spider-Man 3 is, 3 highly successful movies out of 5.