Spider Man 3: revenge of the schmaltz, return of Eddie the Echo

A self confessed comic book nerd's take on the third installment:

Spider Man One? Loved it. Spider Man 2? Double loved it! Spider –Man 3? About as interesting as dead skin ( which can be interesting, if your into that sort of thing, but not me... well sometimes)

Last Sunday was a beautiful day, the weather was perfect, where was I? Sitting in the darkened theatre looking forward to what I expected to be a great adventure. About halfway through the movie, I found myself wondering, " when is this going to be over?'

This third installment pits the web head vs the Sandman, Venom ,and there's a new Green Goblin in town, Peter's best friend, Harry. Tobey Maguire as Spidey seemed like he was acting while at the same time thinking about how he can translate this part into a guest appearance on "Extras". Maybe he was just thinking "what would Peter Parker do?" instead of simply being Peter Parker. When he was "dark peter" possessed by the alien costume thing, he changed his hairstyle so we could all figure out he was not his normal self. I figured out he was not his normal self without the bad hairstyle - the way he was walking down the street like "edie the echo" in those burger commercials, pointing at the ladies – "how ya doin'? how ya doin'?" and being all "evil' and stuff. While the special effects were amazing, I think the biggest problem with this movie was the directing. How many different Rami family members have to be in the movie? Certain scenes like- the "dark peter" segment and the J.J. Jameson office segments and the Aunt May segments ( which I liked in the previous films) went on way too long. There were shots in the film that were exact copies of shots from Ramis' "Evil Dead" series. I love Sam Rami but I think he went a little too far with the in jokes and such to the detriment of the movie. I give Spider Man 3 a rousing "meh!"