Face Of Cheam

So, Spiderman 3. Saw it Tuesday. As you would expect, with a huge budget, the special effects are very good. Especially of the main villain the Sandman. However, the length of the film, and the introduction of the black costume as a third villain (the first being the Green Goblin 2, Harry Osborn carrying on from the end of the second film) leads to a bit of a muddle story-wise. The change of story with the Sandman being involved in Uncle Bens death is unnecessary and merely complexes matters and the middle bit with Peter Parker becoming an arrogant self obsessive just didn’t work for me. It appears that the director needs to have an arc (motivation, forgiveness and redemption) for each character and when you have five main characters, (spidey, MJ and the three villains) it becomes a drawn out process. Also, I know it’s a comic book but the finale seems a bit too predictable. Oh look Mary Jane needs saving from a great height, Oh Spiderman is being pummelled and needs a miracle to survive. Not to say its unentertaining though. J Jonah Jameson, the editor of the bugle is fantastic again, as he was in the first two movies, his secretary Betty watching his stress levels and flirting with Parker, the introduction of Gwen Stacy & her police captain father and Stan Lee’s cameo ‘nuff said’ are all great. We also have the comedy French restauranter in an otherwise heart breaking scene. However, this doesn’t make it as good as the first two. A fourth movie is planned, with or without Toby MaGuire who in my opinion has played Peter Parker really well, but to make it interesting they need to split up him and MJ naturally (not in the dark way this movie has) so Peter can start dating properly. (More Gwen Stacy please!) Interestingly Dr Connors is given more screen time, so The Lizard as a villain for Spider-man 4?