Big disappointment

Rating: 4/10 (9 May 2007)

Spiderman 3 turns out to be a success in the box office, but a major disappointment to many Spidey fans. Raimi's approach of making the movie bigger and more exciting was not the right path to take. Although there were some positive things, there are too many flaws to call this a good movie. The CGI was very impressive, such as Sandman struggling to pick himself up after the particle generator turned him into sand, and Venom looked good. But was it necessary to have three villains? Spiderman is already struggling with other things such as trying to convince Harry that he didn't kill his father and getting ready to propose to Mary Jane. With 2 more villains on top of that caused the plot to seem random at some points and jam-packed with too many important events to have in just 140 minutes of film. Just having sandman as a new villain would have been a better approach considering he was one of the first villains in the comics and Venom didn't come till later. Also there was not enough time to explain what Sandman is really going through. We know he wants to help his daughter and he killed Peter's Uncle Ben, but we don't understand enough about the character to either like him or hate him because he rarely speaks.
Gwen Stacy is introduced through an action sequence where she is hanging from a building, but a new character should never be introduced this way because the audience doesn't know her enough to care if she dies or not. They don't get that feeling of being on the edge of their seat as they would if a more familiar character was in this situation such as if it was Mary Jane. Which makes the whole scene a waste when it could have been better.
In the last two Spiderman Movies very little of the public thought of Spiderman as a hero where a big majority thought of him as being bad, but in Spiderman 3 they are having parades for him and he is being thanked for saving the city on the front page of every newspaper.
When the symbiont takes over Spiderman, it gives him a bad temper and causes him to battle himself by trying to prevent the Black Spiderman from ruining his life. This all leads to ridiculously bad humor in the movie. Peter Parker is trying to impress woman by his new EMO look and make Mary Jane jealous by bringing Gwen Stacy to her work which turned out to be the worst scene in the movie. While Mary Jane is about to sing, Peter Parker randomly plays a piano very well and dances around with no one caring.
With Venom being the character that everyone wants to see it was a disappointment to only see him at the end of the film, and it rarely showed his face because when he would talk to Spiderman it would show Eddie Brocks face. After Eddie Brock became Venom he asked Sandman to help him kill Spiderman but Sandman had no reason to want to kill Spiderman. If he did then he wouldn't have apologized to him at the end of the movie for killing his Uncle. When Spiderman asked Harry to help him fight Sandman and Venom, Harry wouldn't because he couldn't forgive him after thinking he killed his father. The Butler then tells him the truth that he knew his father killed himself, but why would he be saying this now as appose to telling him when peter and him were trying to kill each other earlier in the film? He then helps Spiderman Fight which by this point really changed any part of the story line that was based around the comic.
There were to many things happening in the story that made it too random such as Sandman happening to fall in a particle generator as it was about to be used, and the symbiont falling out of the sky right next to Peter Parker. If the movie was based around the symbiont, Black Spiderman, and Venom then it could have made a really good movie. Instead of a meteor falling from the sky they could have made it like the cartoon where J Jonah Jamison's son goes into space where he finds the symbiont on an asteroid and brings it back to earth after having to land on the George Washington bridge because it takes over the shuttle. It would have made a great action scene and they already introduced J Jonah Jamison's son in Spiderman 2 making fans think that thats how the symbiont would have gotten to Spiderman but the meteor falling from the sky was just a way to save time only because there was too much to cover in two hours and ten minutes.
I give this movie five stars because although i am a huge fan of Spiderman I was very disappointed with this film. Especially for all the hype it got. It is upsetting that this is the Spiderman movie that ends up soaring into the record books when the other two were much better