Big grins

Rating: 9/10 (5 May 2007)

I really liked this film. I had read a lot of bad reviews, and had prepared for the dancing and singing (which was weird), but I was very pleasantly surprised. Tobey Maguire did an excellent job with his duel role, and Kirstin Dunst didn't annoy me nearly as much as usual. Both the villains were great, too. The sequences with Sandman were amazing. I am NOT a reader of the comics, though, so i came into this movie totally unaware of the characters, which may be why I liked this so much.
There were two things about this movie that i didn't like. I didn't understand the black junk, though. Whatever the stuff is that makes Spiderman black. I wish the movie had explained more about that. Where did it come from? Why doesn't it like sound vibrations? How does it affect people? Why was it attracted to Peter Parker? Also, I didn't think the character of Venom was developed very well. Topher Grace did a great job, and I would have liked to see more of him. Two big thumbs up. :)