Now people, it's getting ridiculous!

Rating: 1/10 (31 July 2012)

Imagine you buy a 100 pages super hero comic book and all you read is some 'amazing' private facts about the life of Peter Parker, the guy who's going to become the amazing Spiderman. You will be really pi**ed off! The good thing with the comic book, you can stop reading and throw it in a corner where your dog can grab it later. The bad thing with the movie, you have to sit through it.
The problem seems to be: What to do with a $230,000,000 budget? Make just an action movie? Ohhh no, that is not enough, you have to reach the broadest target audience as possible. So your are starting to construct a plot that has everything in it: romance, love, desires, fears ... some action, but not too much, to reconcile every ingredient which makes your movie an attraction for all the boys and girls, families, whoever. How to construct an emotionally deep plot that every twilight fan-girl loves around a nerd who get's bitten by a radioactive spider and then transform into something spider-like himself and who likes to wear mesh stockings and a mask since then? You have NO chance, it MUST be full of clichés, otherwise your audience would not understand what the hell you are going to tell them. And for a $230,000,000 budget, you do not dare to copy just some lines from The Love Boat or so, Shakespeare's romeo and Juliet might be a more appropriate template.
The result is this ridiculous mess of a movie. If Hollywood goes on with those super super hero movies, the actors will make them self redundant. Computer animated figures are totally sufficient for portraying such one dimensional and stupid industry mainstream characters. And that could look far better than the pushover in a latex costume we have here.