Weak but entertaining entry of the Spidy saga!

Rating: 8/10 (12 July 2008)

Peter Parker a.k.a. Spider-Man (Tobey Mcguire) seems to have a sweet life as Spidy whom is New York's number one celebrity and hero, he wants to ask Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst). However things get out of hand, a criminal named Marko Flint (Thomas Hayden Church) escapes from prison as he accidentally finds himself as he was the true killer of Uncle Ben in a testing range where he accidentally finds himself in the middle of a experiment involving radioactive sand that makes him into The Sandman. Peter's best friend Harry (James Franco) becomes New Goblin to get revenge for what Peter did to his father only to get himself in the hospital, later a weird black alien goo from another world lands on Earth to attach itself to Spider-Man's costume making it all dark with more advanced powers. It somehow changes his personality and he has been having an affair with beautiful Gwen Stacy (Bryce Dallas Howard) making MJ jealous, not only that but new photographer Eddie Brock (Topher Grace) becomes Parker's rival. Later as Peter rejects the costume, it absorbs Brock turning him into a sharp-toothed grinning Bizarro version of Spider-Man called Venom whom join forces with Sandman on a diabolical scheme that only Spider-Man can stop.
A very weak but entertaining entry of the popular superhero franchise! nowhere as good as the first or as great as the second, this does have good and bad points. The bad points for example is the goofy dance sequence where Parker acts like Jim Carrey's The Mask, three villains instead of 2 or 1, and a complex storyline that can go over the audience's heads. The Villains were not deep or hard enough like the first two movies where they were actually developed, but there's good points like some of the returning cast like JK Simmons with Rosemarry Harris back with appearances by Bruce Campbell, Stan Lee, William Defoe, and Ted Raimi. It does have Sam Raimi's trademark direction with stunning special effects even with Venom and good action sequences.
Yes it is the weakest of the series but does have good entertainment, i hope the fourth one coming out in 2011 will improve on this one.