Not enough spiderman

Rating: 1/10 (26 May 2007)

For a spiderman film you don't get to see much spiderman. The end fight scene is a gorgeous 5 or 10 minutes. The rest is more or less all about Peter Parker and his problems with Mary Jane. After all that hype you hardly see any Venom at all. The Mary Jane Peter Parker dynamics did endear the first spiderman film, but it was interspersed with regular spiderman action. It complimented that film, a kind of cute back plot. In Spiderman 3 they have forgotten that the film is about spiderman. They concentrate on the peter parker and Mary Jane relationship, and how it devolves and then develops. The Spiderman action becomes a back plot, which they kind of remember to slot in every now and again.
I went to see a film about spiderman, I expected it to be an action movie. But I didn't see either. Instead I watched a movie about relationships, and the pitfalls of taking your partner for granted. of not listening and becoming self involved. But not an action movie and certainly not a spiderman movie. Except for the odd 5 minutes here and there.
A RANT:- When are Hollywood going to learn, if your doing a comic book movie, its fans of the comic book that will provide the biggest custom, but what we want to see is our comic book heroes. It doesn't matter who plays the lead, so we don't need nor want to see the actors face all the time. We want the hero mask and all. We want the action. We want the fast pace adrenalin rush. Also In spiderman 2 and 3 you see peters face too often whilst in spiderman costume. I mean who in the city hasn't seen spidermans face whilst he's in full costume? Is there anyone left who actually doesn't know his secret after 2 and 3? You don't need to keep showing us the actors face, we didn't come to see Tobey Maguire, we wanted to see spiderman.