May 09, 2007 10:12 PM
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(Updated May 09, 2007 10:20 PM)
After much anticipation and pre-release brouhaha, spiderman 3 is finally out. With the largest ever opening collections at the box-office (knocking 'Pirates of the Carribean : Dead man's chest' out of the top spot). All I can think of is " WHY ?"
If you didn't hate spiderman before, you definitely will after seeing the latest installment. Everyone probably knows about the whole three villains thing by now. It doesn't help. Halfway through the movie, everyone would start playing 'asphalt' on their mobile phones.
The movie starts with some meteorite containing some alien symbiote crashing onto the yard, coincidentally, 5 yards away from where Spidey and MJ are acting all lovey dovey.
Somewhere in the middle, Toby Maguire tries REALLY hard to portray a whole 'meanie spidey' image, which involves an abrupt change in hairstyle and a weird dancing jig while walking. He is about as good at looking mean as Clint Eastwood would be at cross-dressing.
The movie ends as usual with Spidey enlightening the audience with his pearls of wisdom.In between, he manages (not in any particular order) to fight with venom, the sandman, the new goblin (green goblin's son) and MJ, vanquish the baddies, kiss the comissioner's daughter (upside down - spidey ishtyle) and not get killed in the process.
The film is filled with corny one-liners with about as much wit and satire as a three-toed sloth. Somewhere around the end, I felt like screaming out " Get a life you loser."
Final verdict : DO NOT WATCH. Squish the little red and blue ( or black) spider under your heel. But, as usual, everyone will watch. Just because its spiderman.
