Kkiderman. Review on Spiderman 3 Movie

"Great expectations" is one of the traps that most reviewers fall into

• They believe that with great franchises come great movies and finally

when they realize they are looking at an average movie, they shred it

to pieces as if these were the worst scum of the tinsel world.

I

have been in this situation many a times. This time however I was sure

that the law of averages would catch up with the Spiderman franchise

and the third part would disappoint people. So my expectations from the

movie was quite reasonable. I didn't expect a path-breaking sequel and

was looking forward to some nice graphics action stuff. I was ready to

overlook any shallow script treatment by the director.

It turned

out that these reasonable expectations were a trifle too unreasonable

for Spiderman - the third installment. As I stared at the unfolding

scenes in complete disbelief, I knew that this would be effectively the

last movie of the series unless Marvel does some serious soul searching.

Spiderman

3, if seen in Hindi, can well be mistaken for a movie directed and

written by Ekta Kapoor. It's so K-ish that you half expect some Bahu or

Saas to spring out suddenly from a web of deception with the cruelest

expression on her face. In an attempt to bring out a human face to the

story, the script writers have gone overboard resulting in a tear

jerking drama devoid of any quality or substance.

Before I go

any further - let me put in a spoiler alert. No. I am not going to

divulge any twists in the story. The spoiler here is the script itself.

You see Spiderman shedding buckets of tears and you see many such

buckets. You see him tackling his internal conflict in tacky way. You

see him romancing his girlfriend and getting all the fame into his

head. You see Peter Parker and his multi dimensional personality. What

you don't see is Spiderman and his daredevil stunts. Agreed this is the

third part of the series and simple action sequences are not required

but when you find that the basic USP of the Spiderman movie is

compromised, you fail to see the reasoning behind such a move.

That

brings us to a totally unnecessary and weird Crane on the Run sequence

in the opening half hour of the movie. It sticks out like a sore thumb

in the script and appears as forced as the Cheshire Cat in a Mafia

movie. The scene, brilliant essayed though, serves no purpose at all

other than to establish Spiderman as a Do-Gooder. Well, if that is the

intention of the makers, perhaps a few more action sequences wouldn't

have been a bad idea at all.

The movie has one, two, three

villains of which two have no part to play. There are logic holes the

size of Pacific ocean in the script. It is a fantasy I agree but still

it needs to follow a well defined schema of how things work. The black

substance from the alien world in this movie has no such inhibitions.

For some reason it hates Church Bells and it surprisingly learns the

Spiderman trick and performs it on its own even after separating from

Spiderman! To top it all, it enters the soul of Spiderman only when the

script demands it - All other times it attacks but doesn't blend in.

And

a weird character haphazardly written from the script of the first

movie turns into a pile of sand after - hold your breath - it finds

itself caught in the middle of a Particle Physics experiment. The

scientists conducting such a magnificent experiment shrug off a

computer alert that the mass of the sand system doesn't match their

settings. "It might just be a bird", one nerd says, "it will fly away."

Why does Sunset Boulevard think all physicists are idiots?

You

find deceit, love, hatred, jealousy, arrogance - all meticulously woven

into the story with a dramatic over-the-top treatment of each one of

these qualities. When one of the character's chest is pierced right

through to the other side, that character survives for almost half an

hour, refuses hospitalization request and talks to the companions in

grumpy voice for yet another fifteen minutes and then dies peacefully

with the sun rising in the East as the background. Now, isn't that a

1980 Telugu movie?

When the credits rolled by, I looked at my

friends - all the girls were teary eyed and said they loved the movie.

All the boys were teary eyed and said they'd wasted 2.5 hours of their

life and one hundred rupees.

If you are a big fan of Ekta Kapoor serials and/or the Gemini TV serials, you will love this movie for the *emotional content and the three dimensional profiling of the characters. *However, if you are going to the movie to see a super hero, you are wasting your time.