Great Spider Man 3 Single Disc Widescreen Edition
The newest installment of the Spiderman franchise promised a lot, and actually kept a lot, but not all.
The production values of "Spiderman 3" are, as we've come to expect, fantastic. The visual effects are stunning, the fights interesting and exilarating, the sound amazing, very well casted and well acted. It just goes on where the first and the second movie let off.
"Spiderman 3" is by far the funniest of the three movies, and at the same time also by far the darkest. The comedy ranges from J Jonah Jamesons rantings and Bruce Campbells cameo part as in the previous two movies to a physical and circumstantial comedy when Peter Parker finds his "badass" self which is unlike anything in the first two films. The dark side of the film is, as the tagline tells us, Parkers struggle within. We see him go from confident (where he's just a bit infatuated with himself) to bordering cocky (where his loveaffair with himself gets more heated) and finally to an arrogant bastard (where he's deeply in love with himself). The story of Harry/the Green Goblin also develops even further with Harrys deepening madness and love/hate relationship with Peter Parker, which makes a very interesting storyline. Also of course we see the rise of venom, one of the darkest and most twisted characters in the Marvel universe.
It's not all a dance on roses though. First of all, with all those bad guys in play, they each don't get the attetion they deserve. There's not enough character development, and not enough "action time" for the baddies. They do it as well as can be done with the amount of time available. I don't think there's much that could have been improved in the film in this respect except for cutting out one of the characters (which in my opinion is what should've been done). They cleverly avoid the trap of "X Men 3", where it's all just a big confused mess though. We do get to know the characters, just not well enough.
The character of Sandman, well played as it is, is a bit reminiscent of Doctor Octopus in the second film. It's hard to be convinced that he's truly a bad fellow. The biggest problem, characterwise though, is Venom. He gets very short time to develop and therefore seem as just another henchman or such, not really a main bad character. I think the best way to give him room to develop and still make him a main bad guy, was to have the creation of him in this film and then use him in a possible fourth. Also his voice is all wrong.
Apart from the character/time problems, there's also a problem with one of the scenes. As Peter Parker grows more and more arrogant we see him develop in a very funny way. The way he walks, talks and acts all change in a hillarious way. The culmination of this change, a dance number in a nightclub, is sadly not up to par. It was, as another reviewer remarked, truly worthy of "the Mask", but not Spiderman.
I still give this film 5 stars because it is pure entertainment and there are some very good comedy in there. The images alone are enough of a reason to see "Spiderman 3", but there is so much more to be had from it.
I'm a long time fan of the comic so I guess, I may be a bit biased in my views, but still I would say that this film is highly recommendable. Go get it!
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