Worth seeing but not as good as it should have been

Rating: 6/10 (9 May 2007)

First off, I'm a fan of comic books and I love spider-man. I loved the animated series when I was younger and I loved both of the previous movies. Spider-Man 2 is still the best comic movie ever made. So naturally, when I came to watch the midnight showing of Spider-Man 3 I was expecting to see the best super hero movie of all time. Three villains, the black suit, and more action. How could they screw this up? Well, somehow they managed and I left the theater that night very disappointed. Here is a layout of the things I think they did right and the things I think they did wrong.
First the right....
1. The action sequences were f*cking awesome. The best part of the movie was naturally the action sequences. CGI continues to amaze me.
2. Harry didn't wear the Green Goblin mask from the first movie. This was my only gripe about either of the first two films. It looks like a retarded Power Ranger mask.
3. They added more humor. The scene with Bruce Campbell was hilarious. The humor kept the movie from being really boring. I'm not including the piano playing or shooting from the hip scene because they were retarded.
4. Venom was in the movie and he looked sweet as hell.
5. Harry became a good guy at the end. I liked this part. At least Peter didn't have to kill his best friend.
The Bad....
1. Did Marry Jane really have to sing twice and when did she become so damn whiny? nuff said
2.When did spider-man become a long boring chick flick? Seriously, this movie seemed to drag on forever. They would follow up each interesting scene with a bunch of long drug out crap. Like MJ singing or Peter walking around town winking or an arguing scene. They spent more time developing how jealous MJ was of Peter and the love triangle between Peter, MJ, and Gwen then they did developing the characters of the villains. The Gwen character really served no purpose in the film. She wasn't really Eddie's girlfriend, he just thought she was. MJ being jealous was also pointless. He's Spider-Man. Get over yourself. With 3 villains it shouldn't have been that difficult to come up with a story line that kept us on the edge of our seats but instead we got a love story.
3. They explained NOTHING. What was the black goo? If you weren't a fan of the comic books you have no idea. Doc Connors gave a 25 second explanation and that was it. Other than that, it was just some goo that crashed from the sky. Why could Peter take the black suit on and off but then all of a sudden not be able to get it off and have to use the bell tower? Why did Eddie get spider powers? Fans know why, but no one else does. Why did sandman become sandman? They gave no explanation. Amazing, a two and a half hour movie that I was bored through a lot of that still can't manage to explain the story line.
4. Venom was in the movie for a whole 20 minutes and he didn't speak in the first person plural case. When he said "I want Spider-Man dead" instead of "we want spider-man dead" I was a bit upset. As I mentioned before, he looked really cool and the fight scene was awesome.
5. Spider-Man let Sandman just walk away because he was sorry. WHAT?! I know Spider-Man doesn't kill people but he could have at least kicked his ass. Did they run out of money or what?
Overall the movie is worth seeing but it's nowhere near the level of the other two films. The movie drags and fails to explain some very key elements but the action scenes, the humor, and the fact that Venom is in the movie are enough to give the movie 6/10