Great fights and special effects, thats it

Rating: 4/10 (5 May 2007)

Wow, cant believe I stayed out to 3 a.m to watch this. Not as good as the first two, too much like X Men 3. Hard to take this movie for an action/superhero movie when its mostly comedy. It just felt like half a movie to me.
The Good Aunt May is terrific as always, Bruce Campbell has a great cameo, J.K Simmons plays his part perfectly, Sandman effects are outstanding, Kirsten Dunst getting smacked in a failed attempt to try to get her to act better
The Bad a script that hinges on everyone being in the exact time and place that they need to be to witness major events/have things happen to them. There's more contrived conveniences in this one movie than in three seasons of Lost!, Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst phoning it in, fight scenes that are pretty to look at but lack the punch and energy of the battles of the previous two films, a scene in a jazz bar that rips off The Mask. Not the '50s horror movie. The Jim Carrey movie, Sandman lands face down in a puddle. When he rises, only his arm is melting, "To reflect my new dark side, I'm pulling my bangs over my eyes!" Oooooooo..., Harry's butler, whose medical expertise is apparently beyond measure. According to him, he can determine that a man rammed a glider tipped with blades into himself rather than that he was stabbed by a superhero. However, he will only provide this expert knowledge when the assumed-guilty hero needs Harry's help fighting a duo of super villains, Using newscasters to describe a good chunk of the epic battle, Using same newscasters to quickly restore the public faith in Spidey, even though the info is actually wrong, Peter and Harry's cop-show banter when they team up. Yeah, they've spent almost two movies on, at best, tense terms. But when you're fighting an incarnation of The Sandman that looks like a pile of mashed potatoes with cinder block interspersed, it's important to be witty, Curt Connors is barely used, Venom is underused Sandman character is terribly written for, Borrows Peter Parkers evil side from the ending of "Staying Alive"