Poor Jesus and James

Rating: 3/10 (6 May 2007)

Both Jesus and James Brown are turning over, where ever they are. Both are missed used in this poor excuse for an enjoyable movie. I guess I should admit upfront that I didn't really care for any of the previous Spidey movies. I just can't get into Tobey as Spidey and the really nerdy behavior the writer made up for him. I prefer the comic book Spidey, no super smooth hero, but no nerd either. The Mary Jane character just continues to get on my nerves. These are the two most dysfunctional people on the planet. Raimi is good at comic relief, he should have inserted alittle more and I would have liked the film better (I missed his wife, Lucy Lawless. He should have given her a cameo, too). The special effects were okay but if you've seen one computer generated scene you've seen them all. The villains, of course are exceedingly more interesting than our hero or his whiny girl friend. And on another more serious note, there were a lot of little kids in our theater and they were in a word bored. The violence was way too much for them, the parents should have screened it first. The fight scenes were in fact on necessarily violent. I wondered after this movie was over whether or not Raimi realized how ridiculous his premise was, so its okay for Spidey by his actions allowing people to die but its not okay for villains to kill people. I know that there are a lot of people in prison today who wish they could just say they were sorry and get out, maybe we should start a movement in this country. If you're poor and steal or kill, which is about 80-90% of AA men in prison, if you say you're sorry we'll let you out to be with your daughter too. I like that Raimi but you should have used a black guy.