Warning!
Spoiler Ahead!
Here’s the problem with Spider-Man
3: at the end of the film, Peter Parker and Harry Osborn, in their
Spider-Man and (new nemesis) Green Goblin costumes respectively, team up to
fight the big, scary villains.
They’re old friends in great danger, yet they’re having a ball. They fall into sync. They help each other out. They’re a couple of guys we’d love to
spend an hour and a half with. In
other words, Spider-Man 3’s climax
shows us what we’ve been missing, thus making us feel like we’ve been missing
out. Spider-Man was fun. Spider-Man 2 was fun. Spider-Man
3 doesn’t get fun until the last twenty minutes. By then, it’s too late.
Spider-Man mastermind Sam Raimi set out to make a
relationship movie in this, his third installment in the franchise. Unfortunately, it’s the kind of
relationship movie that makes you want to throw your remote at the screen and
yell at these people to just go grab a beer and talk to each other. If they’d done that, they’d have been
much happier much sooner, and so would we.
2 comments:
My favorite review of spider man three was this
"The bad news is that it's a chick flick. The worse news is spiderman is the chick."
Hah!
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