Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Spiderman 3 Review

As everyone who had watched the previous two Spiderman movies know, the Green Goblin story arc is still not completed and before part 2 ends, we were shown how Harry Osbourne found out that his best friend is his Spiderman and also how he found his daddy's secret "Goblin" room where he kept all his Green Goblin stuffs there and how they hint that Harry is going to be the next Goblin. So this movie is basically the climax and the end of the Goblin story-arc with a couple of villians and themes thrown in.

The movie opens with a brief introduction of all the movies heroes and villians. Something like how the Sandman escaped from prison and how he is forced to be a criminal under some circumstances and how Peter want to propose to his girlfriend Mary Jane Watson. We are also shown how strain both Harry's and Peter's relationship had become and how Harry had indeed became the Goblin and wanted to take revenge on his pal Peter Parker for "killing" his dad and how the Symbiote (those things that gave Spidey the black costume) came down to earth from a meteorite. After a brief introduction of the characters the movie wasted no time and jump straight into one of the best action sequence I had ever seen between Spidey and the Green Goblin. The effects are breathtaking and the action are greatly choreograph.

The character development in the movie is excellent. How they build up the relationships between the characters and also I expect the director can build up the hatred Eddy Brock had towards Peter Parker in such a short time. The comedic timing of the movie also well done, with most of the comedy relief coming from Jonah Jameson which is portrayed excellently by J.K Simmons. Do look out for Bruce Campbell's cameo in the movie as the French restaurant manager which is really hilarious.

My only disappointment for this movie is how they do not have much time to develop the coolest and greatest villain in Spidey's rogue gallery which is Venom. He is simply given to little time to develop. True the hatred between Parker and Brock is there but the chemistry between Venom and Spidey is just not there. Instead of be given a whole new story arc just to himself, he is been relegated to just a supporting villain. Hope they can bring in Venom for the next story-arc. That would indeed kick so much ass.

Overall this is a great movie and also a great curtain closer to the Green Goblin story-arc. Despite the minor "Venom" disappointments, I really love this movie. I give it a 9.2 out of 10.

Some afterthoughts: After being teased several times of being the next-possible villain, could the next story-arc revolves around Doctor Connors (Peter's lecturer) and his transformation to the Lizard? Or could the next arc be a symbiote extravaganza featuring Carnage and Venom? After all Sony did sign a 6 movies deal with Marvel and I don't think they would want to stop at movie number 3 judging how the Spiderman movies is their biggest cashcow.

2 comments:

  1. I think the movie wasn't as good as 1 and 2.

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  2. i knew it !!! peter parker is spiderman~ :P

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