Bum numbingly poor

Rating: 4/10 (31 May 2007)

I had enjoyed the first two, they were good, so I was looking forward to this one. Oh boy, it was an experience. Originally myself and my daughter (age 16) went into the cinema and someone brought in a TWO year old child!!! The kids next to us behind us and in front of us were talking noisily and the parents did nothing, in fact one mother actually encouraged her kids by talking just as loudly. After 10 minutes of this we gave up and left. I saw the manager to complain and get my money back as we had travelled 90 miles there and had to travel 90 back to see this movie, luckily he said there was another showing due to start in 15 minutes on another screen and it was empty in there. So in we trotted and it was quieter. Oh boy, the sound quality was poor and despite several people going out to complain it didn't get better, but, it was still better than sitting amongst a group of noisy brats. As for the film, well, it was unbelievably poor, a good half hour could have been cut out, including Tobey Maguire cringingly awful sequence when he's emo, Gwen Stacey was pointless, so was much of MJ and Peter's tribulations. The high spots were the action sequences, Thomas Haden Church was tragically underused as was Topher Grace, THC last scenes were the high spot, borough down by the great big cryfest over Harry (blah). And I didn't get what was going on with Harry, he seemed to heal awfully quick after being hurt not once, but, twice, but no explanation was given as to why. Was he genetically altered from going in his Father's machine or was it just plain lazy scripting?
Anyway, an all round poor experience. What a shame as it could have been so much better