Embrassing

Rating: 2/10 (6 May 2007)

I went to see this film with low expectations after seeing Spiderman 2 (which was OKish). One of the worst things about this shockingly bad film is the fact that you cringe while watching it, often feeling embarrassed because of the poor dialog, bad acting or just generally shaky storyline.
The story kicks off right where Spiderman 2. I think I would have preferred these films to be separate from each other. With a sort of continuing story line, but not much of one. This film clocks in at around 2 and half hours. A very large majority of this is awful storyline between MJ, Peter and Harry.
The most cringe worthy part of this movie is where Peter Parker becomes an emo kid once he has been latched onto by the symbiot gunk. He wears eye liner and has an emo hair style. Obviously this is some crude ploy to try and communicate with the 'youtube generation'. Quite obviously it didn't work at all. It just lowered the picture.
I really don't understand how a very large majority of people on IMDb gave this film 10. Even the fan boys shouldn't really be giving this film a 10 as it changes classic storyline elements. For the sake of story they change the plot so the Sandman originally killed Peter's father, Ben. Also original Spiderman fans, i guess, would hate the idea of making peter Parker an emo kid. Also any film fan with any sense would realise this film was an awful cash in.
The only redeeming part of the film was the dinner scene with Bruce Campbell playing a French waiter. This had the cinema laughing.
So yeah. 2/10. Truly awful film.
Spiderman 1 was quite good. Maybe because of the novelty of it Spiderman 2 was pretty average, not the greatest. Spiderman 3 was just plain cringe worthy.