SpiderMan 3.
May. 5th, 2007 12:48 amThis was two completely separate movies, joined together with blatant expository lumps[1], with far too many new characters who are just there because they were in the comic.
It really, really, really needed a script editor to get rid of any two of Gwen Stacy, Sandman, Venom, and the Green Goblin. (and since they ended 2 with the Goblin's return, they can't exacty cut him. So, any two of Stacy, Sandman, Venom.)
It then needed that same editor to slap the writer over the piss-poor rewrite of Harry Osborne. Seriously! It's really not hard to write Osborne - one part well-meaning wimp Peter Parker, one part homicidal megalomaniac Norman Osborne, douse in super-soldier serum that gives a new meaning to "roid rage", add jealousy and abandonment issues, shake, serve. How hard is that?
That being said, it had a lot of good scenes. It just insisted on surrounding them with utter DC-universe level idiocy. This was no Spiderman 2. It wasn't Spiderman 1. It wasn't even X-Men or The Punisher. It was better than X3 and Ghost Rider, though, even if that's damnig with faint praise. As superhero movies go, I'd say it's right around the Hulk/Daredevil/Superman Returns level, with pretty much the exact same flaws as those three.
(Bruce Campell stole the show again, like he did in the first two, though. Almost worth the whole price of admission, right there.)
[1]: "I'm a physicist not a biologist, but this looks like an alien symbiote that enhances the emotions of the host, especially aggression! And it will, of course, be very hard to remove! I know this because I've got a microscopic view of a cell from it *beating up the other cells and taking their lunch money*. No, really. That's actually what it's doing, right on camera."
It really, really, really needed a script editor to get rid of any two of Gwen Stacy, Sandman, Venom, and the Green Goblin. (and since they ended 2 with the Goblin's return, they can't exacty cut him. So, any two of Stacy, Sandman, Venom.)
It then needed that same editor to slap the writer over the piss-poor rewrite of Harry Osborne. Seriously! It's really not hard to write Osborne - one part well-meaning wimp Peter Parker, one part homicidal megalomaniac Norman Osborne, douse in super-soldier serum that gives a new meaning to "roid rage", add jealousy and abandonment issues, shake, serve. How hard is that?
That being said, it had a lot of good scenes. It just insisted on surrounding them with utter DC-universe level idiocy. This was no Spiderman 2. It wasn't Spiderman 1. It wasn't even X-Men or The Punisher. It was better than X3 and Ghost Rider, though, even if that's damnig with faint praise. As superhero movies go, I'd say it's right around the Hulk/Daredevil/Superman Returns level, with pretty much the exact same flaws as those three.
(Bruce Campell stole the show again, like he did in the first two, though. Almost worth the whole price of admission, right there.)
[1]: "I'm a physicist not a biologist, but this looks like an alien symbiote that enhances the emotions of the host, especially aggression! And it will, of course, be very hard to remove! I know this because I've got a microscopic view of a cell from it *beating up the other cells and taking their lunch money*. No, really. That's actually what it's doing, right on camera."
