Huge, Huge Letdown

Rating: 2/10 (23 May 2007)

**************MAJOR MAJOR SPOILER ALERT******************** I for one, being a Spiderman junkie, couldn't wait for the third movie. I constantly checked the website for updates, I counted down the months...
My husband and I went to see the first showing here in Biloxi, MS the first day it opened, boy was I in for a shocker.
First thing I noticed was how the Spiderman music in the credits seemed off... I was like, okay they changed the music a bit, no big deal. <<; I'm a huge fan of Danny Elfman, and the score in this movie was not like the other ones, A lot of the times the music would blare so loud and over the top that it was annoying.
Then you see the beginning of the movie, MJ is singing, Peter goes to see her performance, and he's watching her sing, and mouthing the lyrics. I was like yay dopey Peter! Then the camera pans to Harry, and as usual he's his grouchy self, and so on.
I'm sitting there waiting for the action to happen, and voilà, fight scene with Harry! "You knew this was coming, Pete!" I had to roll my eyes several times, the camera was shaking so violently constantly it annoyed me. I could hardly tell what the heck was going on the whole time.
Harry gets injured, and loses his semi-recent memories, (his father dying), and becomes... nice. I was shocked.
Peter on the other hand constantly brags about himself, which made me talk out loud in the theater a lot asking when the heck he stopped being a humble nerd. He would brag to MJ, not give a crap about her problems at all. (Drama drama.)
Gwen Stacy gives Spiderman "The Key to the City" and he even says to give him a kiss because the crowd "will love it!" So, Spiderman and Gwen Stacy kiss like he and MJ did in Spiderman 1, she pulls his mask down, revealing his lips, and kisses him, RIGHT IN FRONT OF MJ! I was like, NUH UH!
Later this evening, he wants to propose to MJ. Which is one of the only scenes I sort of enjoyed, thanks to Bruce Campbell. Mj walks in, obviously majorly depressed about her singing gig, and Peter kissing that other girl.
Gwen Stacy walks in, and starts putting her hands all over Peter whilst talking to the both of them, and then asks if Peter could get her a picture of her kissing Spiderman. When MJ confronted him about it, he acted like it didn't even matter.
What the hell happened? One minute he worships her, and now it's like he couldn't give a crap about her either way.
Soon Peter dons the Black Suit, and starts the Emo Peter Act. You know he transforms because he pushes his bangs down over his forehead, and somehow he's as scary as a.... kitten.
Impressive.
He walks around the city, dancing in public, hitting on women... It drove me insane. He acted so stupid I was too shocked to even laugh.
Now don't get me started on the villains but, oh well, here goes. We're introduced to Thomas Hayden Chruch's character. He has a sick daughter that is apparently behind all his money thievery motives... We never learn much about her, or why she's sick, so naturally I never cared. Poor scriptwriting there. Half the time I didn't know whether to feel sorry for Sandman, or hate him.
Venom, he had only like 15 minutes of actually screen time, and he teamed up with Sandman to take on Spiderman... That was lame as hell.
Fight scenes were short, and not impressive at all in my opinion. There weren't many, that made it worse. There was so much drama I thought I was in the wrong theater.
Now if all the "drama" was actually a real plot, I could forgive it. But so much crap was happening at once, with Harry turning nice, Peter into a jerk, MJ mad at Peter, wanting Harry for comfort... My head was spinning. That isn't plot, that's an episode of Dawson's Creek on steroids.
Now, we all know Harry has been suffering because he thinks Spiderman killed his father. WELL, towards the end of the movie, after all the stupid useless tripe.... Spiderman asks for Harry's help to fight Sandman and Venom, and save MJ. He says no, blah blah blah. THEN we have the wonderful Butler to walk in, and tell Harry how he cleaned his father's wounds the night he died, and he was killed by his own glider. WOW!! THANKS FOR TELLING HARRY NOW AFTER WATCHING HIM SUFFER! That felt thrown in, and that annoyed the hell out of me!
Then you have super cheesy death scene with Harry... It's like the writers knew that Harry was annoying, and did a desperate attempt with memory loss to make us like him, so we could actually care a little when they kill him off.
I wish I walked out. My husband fell asleep halfway through.... =|
Huge, huge letdown -breathes-