Talk about overkill!

Rating: 1/10 (4 September 2011)

The (thankfully) last Tobey Maguire/Spiderman movie. This has him ready to marry fiancée Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst) but things (LOTS of things) start to happen. The new Green Goblin (James Franco) is trying to kill him thinking Spidey killed his dad. The Sandman (Thomas Haden Church) shows up to...something (the movie's really not clear on that) and an alien symbiote turns Spidermans' costume black and turns Parker AND Spiderman evil. Then Venom (Topher Grace) shows up later on.
Talk about overdone! TOO many villains, too many plot lines (and plot holes), WAY too violent, too long (the longest one of the series) and surprisingly dull. As always the special effects are incredible but the dialogue and stories are still at a dumb comic book level. Maguire surprisingly acts (a little) here. He was blank in the first two movies but here he actually smiles. However when he's called to play a badass guy it's hysterically bad. I was laughing out loud! Dunst was good in the first two--here she's just blank. Also she sings two songs--that was NOT a good idea! Dunst just can't really sing. Church was lousy as Sandman. He speaks in a monotone and never changes expression. Grace was GREAT as Venom but he can't save the film. Franco seems sort of confused in his role and his 180 degree turnaround towards the end didn't make sense. As I said it's WAY too violent for a PG-13. A few of the fights Spidey has would have easily killed him. But it's the multiple (bad) story lines, bad acting and length really sink it. A 1 all the way.