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Rating: 4/10 (6 May 2007)

There are a few spoilers in this, but nothing that gives away the plot.
When going into this movie I honestly expected something amazing, having thoroughly enjoyed the first two Spidermans. The build up for this movie described it as being very dark ("the Darkest of the Three"), action packed and promised to pull together the first two movies. It was, however, nothing like the trailers or the build-up made it look.
I felt as if this movie was aimed at a much younger audience than the first two. There were some horribly done cheesy scenes that were painful to watch because it was obvious that the producers were trying to be funny. It just came off as, to put it simply, incredibly stupid. There's a scene were Peter Parker looks into a window while wearing the "evil suit" under his street clothes and flips his hair down as if to make him look cooler. To be honest, it just made him look "emo". It was rather like a "gettin' a makeover" montage from a chick flick when he did this and popped into a shop to buy some new, darker clothing. The cheesy part of the movie basically ruined it for me.
That aside, the action of the movie didn't appeal to me as it was so similar to the action of the first two films, just done a hell of a lot more poorly. Mary Jane is up high above the city, about to fall, oh no, almost falls but doesn't because Spidey sweeps her up. It wouldn't be a problem if that was a simple part of the action sequences but it was essentially the entire battle between the Sandman guy, Venom and Spiderman.
I thought that the relationship between Peter and MJ was a bit overplayed. That's all I'll say about that.
In all, I personally didn't like the movie but I would recommend it for families who want to see a cute movie together. It's definitely good for kids 13 and under to watch.
As a Spidey movie, 4 out of 10. As a kid's movie, 8 out of 10.