A Real Mess; Unfocused and Overlong

Rating: 5/10 (30 March 2008)

After watching this mess of a Spiderman movie, the first thing that popped into my head was "where was the editor?". This is a mess of a movie. Too many characters, too many story lines, and extraneous story lines. The "dark" Spiderman personality and storyline was laughable in a bad way. Dialog during many of the fight scenes sound as written by 4th graders. I guess this is what happens when a comic book series turned movie begins to grow stale - like the original Batman series. The writers and movie-makers needed to do some serious story editing and trimming. At least 45 min could've been trimmed starting with 20 min of Tobey McGuire doing a bad Mick Jagger impersonation as his supposedly altered-self. Did not and would not pay to see this unfocused overlong attempt. Back to the drawing board.