My Spider-sense is... well... not working particularly well at the moment.

Rating: 6/10 (4 May 2007)

To begin with, let me say that this movie is one big flashback. It wasn't good for a third installment if indeed there is going to be a fourth. Overall the film was mediocre at best. Sure the special effects were great, and there was some staple spidey action, but the overall flow of the movie was just not good. It seems as though Raimi tried to fit too much story into the movie. The end result was that proper justice was not done to too many of the characters. Peter Parker/Spiderman - Not much I can say about the star of the show, except that it seems like they wasted a lot of time with stupid stuff on him. The whole funky street walk scene was just absolutely retarded, and, if it were necessary (because at least it showed him to be the dork that he is), they should've cut the scene to like... 5 seconds. Also, his crying over Mary Jane was just ridiculous, and he should've used his spider-sense (or common-sense) to suspect something of Harry. Lastly, the Jazz club scene with him playing the piano like Harry Connick Jr. was just plain hokey and terrible. I did like how the black-spidey suit enhanced what Peter Parker was already experiencing. A lot of ego. Mary Jane - Okay, your boyfriend is frickin Spider-man. Why give into Harry Osbourne? And what's with the attitude in the beginning? "I just want you to try and know how I feel." Don't get me wrong, I love MJ. I dig the red-heads, and especially Kirsten Dunst as a red-head, but this was possibly the worst written character of this installment. She's still hot though Harry Osbourne - You aren't a good guy. Stop it. That was possibly the most cheesy part of the movie. And for that, I'm glad he died. A bit of irony shaped how he died and I liked that. Eddie Brock - Surprisingly well played. I didn't think Topher Grace could do it, especially since Brock is traditionally thought of as kind of a blockheaded gym rat, and Topher Grace looks like he hasn't ever lifted weights, except that time he had to eat that huge lunch-portioned salad, and he had to use that fork that outweighed him... yeah... it was just a normal fork. Anyway, I liked his character, his dependency on the symbiote and his general malice. I just thought he went down a little too easy... maybe we'll see a return somehow. Flint Marko - Hard to believe that was the same guy that played Lyle of Wings. Oh to work with Helen Hunt... Anyway, his character was great up until the very end. I like how Harry was battling him. Turning the sand to glass. But his dumb little crying episode was just out of place and all of a sudden he's a good guy too... incredible. Again, they did a good job with including some story elements (Gwen Stacey, who was looking mighty fine, Ms. Brant, how Spidey can never keep a girl no matter how much he loves them, Curt Conners, etc.), but a lot of the movie was just off the mark, moving from one vague piece of the story to the next. Again, it was like they tried to fit too much movie. I give it a C+ overall, because it IS Spiderman after all, and some of it was quite cool, but definitely did not do the Spiderman story the justice it deserved.