Poor sequel to a great sequel.

Rating: 5/10 (26 August 2007)

I love the Spiderman franchise, I thought that Spiderman 2 was an amazing film and when I heard that Venom was going to be in this film I thought "Hey, this could be awesome...They have the chance to make a really amazing sequel here!" and I was quite excited about seeing it. By all rights this film should have been a very dark and moody affair, especially when Spiderman starts to become 'posessed' by the black suit. Instead what happened was Parker turns into a cheesy EMO kid and the result is somewhat of a joke, rather than being given the seriousness it deserved in terms of psychological inner turmoil... Venom should have had a Golum-like split personality, but even the existence of the symbiote's personality was absent in this film...Which was why Spiderman decided the suit was not for him in the comics...He became aware of its motives and how it was trying to take him over like a parasite, he rejected the suit and then it found a willing partner with Brock because they both hated/resented Parker and Spiderman... Venom should have sounded like some kind of messed up lizard/demon...Instead they just gave him the voice of Brock...Which was really weak. As well, Venom should have been much bulkier and bigger in general...Most of my problems with this film are with the whole 'black suit' thing which they used to advertise this film and it ended up feeling like false advertising...It should have been awesome, but everything about it was cheesy and overacted...There was too much singing and dancing and not enough depth...