Very Disappointing

Rating: 4/10 (8 May 2007)

**May contain slight Spoilers** Well, after eagerly awaiting and anticipating the arrival of Spiderman 3, I found myself to be incredibly unhappy and disappointed with the movie that Sam Raimi and Marvel put forth. The storyline with the symbiote in its original comics form was butchered to the point of absurdity. Maguire while excellent in the first two films as spiderman, could not pull off the transitions required by the symbiote. He to me seemed like little more than an arrogant emo high school kid. Kirsten Dunst as MJ, was totally flat and unbelievable. The chemistry that existed in the first two films between she and Tobey simply was not there. Thomas Haden Church, was good in his part, but the role of Sandman was also butchered from its comics origin. Sandman in the comics did not kill Ben Parker, why did they feel the need to do such with the film, it added nothing to the flat storyline. Not to mention Sandamn in the comics was not the tragic villain simply searching for a cure for his kid, he was a petty thug, there was no tragedy or Shakespearean aura to his character. Now this brings me to Venom played woefully and tedious by Topher Grace, or as most of us will forever know him as Eric Foreman the skinny kid from that 70' show. Grace spent his whole on screen time trying to be comical and nonchalant, to me it just seemed like skinny kid with a symbiote. Raimi then proceeds to kill the Symbiote and Brock after a cheesy showdown with Spiderman. Indeed Brock is no longer Venom in the MArvel Universe, and is dying with Cancer, but the symbiote is never destroyed, it later Bonds with Mac Gargan better known as The Scorpion, becoming an even more powerful entity. JK Simmons as J Jonah Jameson was perfect in his part, but the role is not large enough to save the film. Out of the main cast, JAmes Franco as Harry Osborn gave the best performance. His transition from evil to good was done very well, and he was by far the character that you could honestly sympathize with and identify with. In short the performances overall were lousy, especially the villains, none of them really had any oomph or character like we experienced with Alfred Molina as Doc Ock. And none could even come close to Willem Dafoe's demonic and chillingly insane portrayal of Norman Osborn. If you were a fan of the first two films, this one certainly does not live up to expectations, it seems to being going the way of the original Batman movies.......ridiculous.