Movie Review: Spider-Man 3
Three times the villains! Three times the romance!
Three times the mediocrity!
So, the night Pirates 3 came out, I went to see
Spider-Man 3, because I knew there would be no crowds. I was right. Four other
people shared the theatre with me.
So, what can I say? Kirsten Dunst has grown up... and gives us less of a performance than she did last time. I can imagine the director telling her, "This movie is all about Mary Jane Watson, and this Peter Parker guy just doesn't get it. Cry over it."
Parker's submission to the alien symbiote reminds me of little Anakin Skywalker's submission to the dark said of the... wait... I've said this before... well, it's true. Of course, the storytellers only have 140 minutes to tell a Marvel story arc that covered more than two years.
What else don't I like? They killed off Harry Osbourne, who is supposed to become the Hobgoblin. Instead, Osbourne becomes a hero in the end, and then dies. Venom gets sonically removed from Eddie Brock, and then blown up. The Sandman is forgiven and blows away in a cloud of... sand. And, in the end, we don;t know if Peter and MJ are getting married or not.
Venom might not be dead. Sandman might come back. Bleh. It will be out on DVD.
The bottom line? Rent it, if you just have to see it. Sure, that might be December, but, I promise, you'll get more out of it being at home than you will on the big screen.
3 Spidey tokens out of 10.
So, what can I say? Kirsten Dunst has grown up... and gives us less of a performance than she did last time. I can imagine the director telling her, "This movie is all about Mary Jane Watson, and this Peter Parker guy just doesn't get it. Cry over it."
Parker's submission to the alien symbiote reminds me of little Anakin Skywalker's submission to the dark said of the... wait... I've said this before... well, it's true. Of course, the storytellers only have 140 minutes to tell a Marvel story arc that covered more than two years.
What else don't I like? They killed off Harry Osbourne, who is supposed to become the Hobgoblin. Instead, Osbourne becomes a hero in the end, and then dies. Venom gets sonically removed from Eddie Brock, and then blown up. The Sandman is forgiven and blows away in a cloud of... sand. And, in the end, we don;t know if Peter and MJ are getting married or not.
Venom might not be dead. Sandman might come back. Bleh. It will be out on DVD.
The bottom line? Rent it, if you just have to see it. Sure, that might be December, but, I promise, you'll get more out of it being at home than you will on the big screen.
3 Spidey tokens out of 10.
Posted: Sat - May 26, 2007 at 06:52 PM
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