Finally saw Spiderman 3. And I have to say: it sucked. I’ll try to keep this brief.
For starters, they wasted the 3 villains in this movie. And I say wasted because there are rumors that the Raimi brothers are going to make 6 of these. To do six movies about the same superhero, you need villains that the general public will recognize. Beyond the Goblin, Doc Oc, the Hobgoblin, Venom and Sandman, you don’t have many characters that non-comic book readers will recognize. So to cram those last three into the same movie is a complete waste. There is no real character development on Sandman or Venom, so the viewer ends up not really caring about them. Throw in the fact that with 3 villains, you have to split screen time between them and you end up with what amounts to bit parts for Thomas Hayden Church and Topher Grace. The only reason Harry had any substance to him was because we’ve followed him through the 2 previous movies.
Add in the fact that we are also having to explore the dark side of Spiderman, and it simply becomes overwhelming. Each character only scratches the surface and we never really delve into them enough to give a damn about them.
This movie also had a lot more cheese in it than the previous ones. To make look Peter Parker look tough (after he puts on the black Spiderman suit), he does a disco dance as he walks down the street. I actually thought that I was watching an updated version of West Side story. Add that to the dance scene in the club and Peter brushing his bangs in his eyes to denote his toughness and you get an obscene amount of cheese for an action movie. (Harry acing like a complete tool didn’t help matters either.)
Bottom line, too many villains and too much cheese make this Spiderman one worth waiting for on DVD.
