Movie Review: Spider-man 3

I was just on the IMDB site for the new Spider-man movie, and the first user comment I saw was "This is the worst Spidey movie yet. I LOVED IT!" And funny enough, that's exactly how I feel.

Just to get this out of the way first: the new Spider-man sucks. Really. Parts of it are absolutely god-awful. But it was great! It was so bad that it was good, if you know that feeling. There are so many moments in the movie that are so terrible that they are gut-bustingly hilarious. Like Peter Parker walking down the streets of New York doing jazz hands and hip thrusts (Really. Believe me, I share your feeling of "what the...?") Or the scene where he does this whole dance routine to make Mary Jane jealous, complete with emo hair, what looked like eyeliner, more jazz hands, dancing on a piano, and that snapping-walking thing they did in a lot of movies from the 50s. And the crying! So much crying! Peter cries, Mary Jane cries, Aunt May cries, New Goblin cries, Sandman cries. In one of the last scenes, Spidey starts bawling, and the whole theatre just cracked up. It was beyond funny. But isn't this supposed to be an action movie?

So, in the end, yes, I was entertained, but also let down. Too many villains, too much crying, too much Kirsten Dunst singing, and not enough real story. So when people started applauding at the end of the film, shouting "thank goodness it's over!", I have to admit that I joined in. It wasn't $9 wasted, but Spidey 4 is definitely going to be a rental.