The Perfect Blockbuster

Rating: 8/10 (26 December 2008)

The spider-man movie series is simply the best superhero movie series ever. The first instalment was great, the second was even better. This third movie is the best of them all. Blockbusters nowadays often turn out to be huge letdowns. You get a flashy trailer with all the best bits and basically that pretty much is the whole film. Spider-man 3 has it all action, thriller, romance, comedy, drama. This is certainly a bit darker than the other movies but it has some light moments. There's a great cameo by Bruce Campbell and J K Simmons chips in with his magnificent portrayal of editor J Jonah Jameson. You wouldn't be wrong in assuming that he was born to play the role. The story moves at an electrifying pace and the massive runtime seems to just whiz by with hardly a dull moment. Hardcore spidey fans are complaining that venom hardly got any screen time and it is true as Topher Grace has only about 3 or 4 scenes in the movie but thats what the producers wanted. Venoms story is not told in as much detail as fans would have liked but incorporating that would increase the runtime by at least another hour, which for a blockbuster would be quite ludicrous. Everything has been packed into the 2 hours 15mins or whatever it is but everything works really well when you consider that spider-man is Peter Parker's story. The whole movie is about him and his trials and tribulations in becoming the greatest superhero ever. The movie has good moral values and messages but other than that, you can switch your brain off, sit back and enjoy this blockbusting experience.