i thought the movie was great...venom was the best part of the movie...overall i give it a 8.5...cause there was a few things that could have been done better....MUST SEE

Simply amazing!It was a bit crowded,with many stories going on.But the action,FX and good characterization really made up for that.
9/10!

This is probably the best film in the trilogy. It just offers you more, and right when you want / need it to! Villains? Check! Love interests? Check! Spidey Suits??? DOUBLE CHECK!!! If the 4th installment can have 5 suits, and Parker chasing 8 girls, then consider my 10 bucks already spent!

This is probably the best film in the trilogy. It just offers you more, and right when you want / need it to! Villains? Check! Love interests? Check! Spidey Suits??? DOUBLE CHECK!!! If the 4th installment can have 5 suits, and Parker chasing 8 girls, then consider my 10 bucks already spent!

I think it was incredible, the broadway pete number kind of put me off but i think it had its place, i just didnt get it, i thought the three villain dynamic was executed perfectly, i would have like a lil more venom but thats just what i would have done, it is absolutely perfect as is, venom was amazing, what a treat to see him come to life and off of the 2D comic page, sandman was absolutely incredible, the sand fx OMG, what a powerful flick. the ending was so powerful, this movie didn't end with a bang it ended with an atomic explosion. i dont get the poor reviews it is getting from the press, i think film critics are villains. i am without a doubt going to see this movie again.

Spiderman 3 was a huge letdown for me. The second Spidey film set up this third installment perfectly, with Harry and MJ both learning the truth about Peter's alter ego. The whole storyline of Peter and Harry falls completely flat in one of the most insanely idiotic copouts I have ever seen. All the camp of the previous films was acceptable. But SM3 packs sooo much in that it dumbs itself down and begins to annoy its audience. SM3 could use about 15-20 minutes of SERIOUS editing. MJ’s presence in this movie is utterly useless. The villains, if u can call them that, are boring. Venom sucked much more than I expected him to. I know I sound like a whiny bitch, but thats only because I just got bitch slapped by Sam Raimi.

This movie was the worst of the trilogy. It could have been both the best of the trilogy and the best superhero movie period but totally fell flat of its potential. The dialogue, acting, story, all of it could have been done so much better than it was. There were just too many holes and corny moments. This movie hurt my effing heart.

I think it was incredible, the broadway pete number kind of put me off but i think it had its place, i just didnt get it, i thought the three villain dynamic was executed perfectly, i would have like a lil more venom but thats just what i would have done, it is absolutely perfect as is, venom was amazing, what a treat to see him come to life and off of the 2D comic page, sandman was absolutely incredible, the sand fx OMG, what a powerful flick. the ending was so powerful, this movie didn't end with a bang it ended with an atomic explosion. i dont get the poor reviews it is getting from the press, i think film critics are villains. i am without a doubt going to see this movie again.

Spider-Man 3 died a very cruel death at the hands of Sam Raimi and the studios involved. It is very upsetting to see how far off the mark this movie was from the last two. The entire story sucked and made little to no sense whatsoever. No wonder Toby does not want to do anymore Spidey movies. My favorite comic book character has been turned into a dancing queen (see the movie and you'll see what I mean). Thank you Sam Raimi.

Dissapointing.. Movie starts off good IMO(opening credits to creation of Sandman, then just little by little, get worse and worse. Storys on Villians were not developed. The movie could have been much better if the focus was just on Spidey and Sandman. Venom could have been saved for a possible 4th installment. Too MUCH PETER PARKER and Mary Jane.

This film did everything it promised. It ticked all the boxes and had all the right elements for a really great film. However, somehow it fell flat.

It wasn't as slick or as smoothe as the second film, far too saccharine in places and had some utterly absurd plot elements (and I'm not talking about a symbiote from Space).

It was fun, had some particularly amazing scenes and was a good way to spend an afternoon. I'm not going to put it down as an all time great though.

The reviewers were right, Sam packed so much into this movie that things werent very well focused, I mean if you are goin to put Venom in the movie, one of the greatest villians of all time do it right, he should have really made him more involved than he actually was, Harrys story played through well, no problems there. Sandman was a good contribution to Peter dealing with his uncles death, the black suit played out well too but like i said, to many things goin on that you cant really grasp it. So to me it looked like Sam just said "alright we'll just put venom here" that sucks!, and what the hell was with the ending YOU DONT FREAKIN KILL VENOM MAN!
just wanted to get that out lol

the movie was awesome. i think a few more viewings will make the movie even better since there was so much going on. my only complaints were too long of a dance scene (could have been cut in half and still delivered the same effect) and there was not enough venom action, they rest was great.

As a huge fan of the first two and an avid reader of superherohype.com, all i heard was that this was the one movie to top all movies. unfortunately, it did not live up to all the hype. the special effects and idea was amazing. venom was an unbelievable addition; however, why topher grace? the movie seemed to drag on at times, especially around the whole good to evil transformation stage. i seemed to laugh a lot more than the number of fight scenes in the movie. id give it a 6 out of 10.

i think no matter what happened in that movie, some people just look for the holes in it and look for something to criticize. i go to movies to see action, fx and more. this movie did not dissapoint.

everyone that is saying there was too much peter and mary jane....superman had too much lois and clark, daredevil had too much elektra and matt murdock, xmen maybe too much jean and scott/logan. its a part of the flick. put down the world of warcraft for a sec guys and get a lady in your life, she will make you want to tear down a city one day and lift and move a mountain with your bare hands the next. it's an important part of the movie.

you cats a waaaaay too critical and your setting my gaydar off like crazy. sit back and enjoy a movie, stop being such nincumpoops.

spidey 3 rocked.

Wow, I guess it was too much to ask that these movies just keep getting better and better. Anybody that likes this movie is way too into Spiderman. It's like Star Wars. The last three Star Wars movies sucked, but ask any Star Wars geek and they'll tell you that they were the best movies ever made. Please don't make Spiderman 4, I'll be waiting for that one on DVD, and I'll put it right next to my Superman Returns DVD.

Spiderman 3 was great! Absolutely great! Venom looked absolutely amazing! Yes it could have used a few MINOR changes, such as more of Venom, or how it's supposed to be all about Parker's "dark" side and his new suit when there's only about ten minutes of him and his black suit, but what can you do, all movies could use a few touch ups. But besides that, Spiderman 3 was the best of the three! It had everything! Action, lovey dovey crap, and comedy! It was abosultely terrific! I can't wait for the DVD, I was the first on line at the movies and I'll be the first on the line of the DVD release! Great job Spidey!

I thought this was good for a movie. Since Venom was stripped down to being nothing but a disposable character really hurt my reaction towards this movie. Venom is a major character, and a fan favorite, so the fact that he was only in the last 30 minutes, and had a fight scene that probably lasted three minutes, really hurt my review for this movie. There was too much information for Sam Raimi to handle, and he screwed it up…badly. He should have ended the movie with Spiderman tearing the rogue suit off and the specimen landing on Eddie Brock. This would leave Spiderman 4 open for venom only, and this would give venom the proper time he needs to really make an impact. I hope that Raimi doesn’t screw the 4th one up like he did this one. Hopefully he will bring back Venom using the small amount of the specimen that’s left in the lab. I give Spiderman 3 a 6.4/10.

While I thought the fx were top-notch, I do feel that the film was a bit uneven. I did not need to see MJ get kidnapped, yet again. But, it was finally a resolution to the overall storyline that fit. Venom was incredible and that last arial battle was something really nice, and a great service to fans that were waiting for something that spectacular.

The only real problem with this film, as in all of them, for me, is that there is no real throughline, villain wise. Almost all of the villain attacks are not setups, but rather, a character just happening to be there. In 2, Spider-man just happens to be in the bank when Doc Ock tries to steal money. In 3, Spidey just happens to be in a park when an intergalactic piece of meteor brings the symbiote to Earth, and Marko just happens to fall into a pit where unknown scientists are messing with seperating molecules of sand. Eddie Brock happens to be in the same church as Peter rips the symbiote from his body.

In the Ultimate Spider-Man comics, (which have one writer throughout), have tied together one villain behind just about every super powered criminal, and that would be Norman Osbourne. It feels like these stories are slapdashed after the last one came out. Someone should have structured the trlogy even if they were not certain there would be one.

Several people in the audience seemed to have trouble with the romantic, tragic, emotional storyline in this one, that almost bordered on melodramatic. Tobey's so easy to cry, too often emotes, that the last time it happened, the guy in front of me got up and left.

All in all, I'll have to give it another go.

circanow73, u have a gaydar>>??? lol.

the movie was great, no doubt, but i'd like more of VENOM, the ending was confuse, obiously Venom not died, its similar ULTIMATE SPIDERMAN in the first issue of vemom, he is electrocuted and then we see only a spot in the floor of him, the same we see in the movie, i hope sony make better the things the next time, i really hope we take a spiderman 4 with a only one villian an that be Venom, only venom.
Spiderman 3 like me, but, are some thigs i take off of it.
bye fellers, sorry my english, its terrible, i hope you understand me, ja ja ja :)
Miguel, Argentina

I was let down by this movie also, as soon as i heard venom would be a villain I was so pumped, i was really excited bout this movie for the better part of a year and 1/2 and it was a complete let down. Venom was poorly used, Sandman was bad ass (only the really good part of the flick) and spidey was an emo bitch. The Harry in this film is probably the best Harry in all the Spidey films and the actors acting talent really seemed to improve, it was a nice surprise, but over all i was laughing more than cringing in my seat by the beating I hoped spidey would have gotten from Venom, oh and VENOM SHOULD NOT HAVE DIED OFF, thats complete bull.
Sam Raimi really should be dissappointed and ashamed, if i were him i wouldnt come back either, i think this is a sign that he is burnt out from the franchise and didnt give it his all

First of all tho,i know my review is written poorly,so i apologize in advance.

What a letdown.Not a horrible film.If i were to compare it--it's the "Return of the Jedi" of the series. I would rank the 3 films as follows :Spider-Man 2,Spider-Man,and this one.
Let's start with the positives:It's always nice to see Bruce Campbell get laughs.ummmmm,let's see what else?.......Venom was awesome...until he talked.......what else?....I liked the black suit........Stan Lee cameo was his best out of all of the marvel films....J.Jonah Jameson was great....i want the giant William Dafoe paiting in my home!:)....and some of the fight scenes were cool,meaning if you took snippets from all of the scenes you could have had a spectaular 5 minute fight scene.Okay,im done.

Let's begin with the bad.

1-Worst script of all 3.

Joss Whedon has ruined my life.Because before him,I probably would have walked out of this film liking it more.But I couldnt.The writing was horrible.Where to begin,let's see.....James Franco is retarded,im serious,he acts retarded.People were laughing at him.He gets hit on the head and forgets everything,so for an hour it's the old Harry--acting really "slow".Anyone see Team America?Remember how Matt Damon acts in the film?"MAAAATT DAAAMON" That's Haary."Heh,ball!" "Yes Harry ball...."
The way Sandman becomes the Sandman--laaaame.He is running from the cops,and he just happens to fall into a sand pit that scientist are conducting an experiment--what experiment?Shut up,stop asking questions.
Here is some of the dialouge from the lamest scientists ever.
"Okay we are ready to experiment on wooshing sand around to make sure its still sand."
"sir,there seems to be an object in the pit."
"its probably a bird--it'll fly away in a minute once we start"
"but sir,it seems to be a large object"
"its just a bird."
"thats what you said last week!?!--what if it's some--"
"look,it's probably just a six foot mutated bird!hit the button--i want to see my sand swirl!"

and thats how he becomes the sandman.

i wish there was a scene after showing the scientist "celebrating"

"Yay! we did it! we spent millions of dollar to swirl sand around!--pop that champane open!"
"what if we swirl mud around?"
All scientist:"BRILLIANT!"




2-Too long.This is coming from a comic book geek,who loves Spider-Man.Green Lantern is my all time favorite hero,but guess who the second fave is? "Rom"---just kidding--Spidey ofcourse!So when a geek is tired of seeing his favorite character,there is something wrong.Originally this was suppose to be spider-man 3 and 4(sandman and the vulture in this one,and venom in 4)but instead they dropped ben kingsley as the vulture and insert venom.It was too much crammed it.This film should have just been Venom.Not only because the main villian was Peter,and so having this "goo" show up,was the mirror of him.His inner demons surfaced.Also, as much as i like Thomas Hayden Church(Great in Sideways,and yes,im a closet "Wings" fan)he was really pointless.
sm-"Why did you shoot uncle ben?"
sand-"i have a sick daughter"
sm-"why did you run from the cops?"
sd-"i have a sick daughter"
sm-"why did you start killing people?"
sd-"i have a sick daughter--look she has a cane!?!!"
sm-"i forgive you."
sd-"okay,im gonna blow away now"

With green goblin he was already an ass,but he turned mad because of desperation that felt believeable.doc ock was the most tragic villians of i think of all comic book movies to date.He was tormented by a split personality,the loss of a wife,who was only in the film for a few scenes but the writing(see how i keep coming back to that) and acting really made you feel his pain,and understood his redemption at the end.if you want us to feel bad for this guys daughter,show us a flashback,more than one scene,something--rather than showing that damn in-case-you-forgot-he-has-a-sick-daughter-locket! on one side was a pic of her,the other side should have said"remember dad-im sick."


3-cgi sucks.
Im sorry but overall,the movie was moving too fast to enjoy the fighting.it had some great moments,but not enough to get the ol' geek goose bumps---or a hard-on if your a perv.

4-the crowd/extras-okay the amount of times the "crowds" applauded like sheep was so annoying,if you listen closely you can hear Sam Rami giving direction:"okay here comes spidey,start now,everyone turn you heads in such a choreographed way it was laughable.Also when a giant battle is going on between a giant sand monster on a construction site,maybe you should run,rather than eating popcorn like its a tennis match,and i loved the children in the front--way to go parents! "hey my kid cant see the carnage,down in front!"

5-newscasters who tell me what is going on while im watching it happen!?!?!?
dont treat your viewers like we are stupid.I dont need recaps,i dont need a horrible austrailian newscaster giving us play by play action/what she is feeling right now and a horrible in studio newscaster spouting out lines like "this could be the end for spider-man" i wish he would have said "it could be the end for spider-man,more at 11---and now back to dancing with the stars!"

6-peter cries,aunt may cries,mary jane cries,harry cries,sandman cries,venom cries,insert sterotypical cute kid cries--everybody cries!

when uncle ben cried while dying in the first film--i cried.it was such great acting! When peter and anyone else "cried" in the first 2 films,you felt it.In this,especially the scene on the bridge when mary jane "breaks up " with peter,it was so bad,that i was waiting for Paula Cole's"I dont want to wait til tomorrow"(dawson's ceek theme) to start up! It just felt forced.

7-and finally the worst/best part of the film---the butler.

So see,harry has wanted to kill spider-man since the first film.in the second film he finds out who spidey is,so now in this he wants to kill peter.it consumes him.every frame he knows about peter "killing" his father all he wants is his death.nothing can change his mind........except a few sentences from a butler who has aparently been in all 3 films,we've just never seen him,heard about him,thought about him,ect.Yet they do the ol' forced intro,when retarded harry invites peter over,harry says"hey---jeeves"(?-i honestly dont remember his name) and then peter says"hey jeeves"--wait--who--wait-what--wait---wait go back!?!!? It's like when you watched Family Ties as a kid,and 1 season they have a baby,and then without mentioning it the following season the "baby" is now 6!?!!?BAD WRITING. But fine whatever i'll let his intro slide.Even tho the "actor" looks like he lost a lot of blood and is about to faint in every scene,plus he can't act.So when does the butler show up again?--that's right at the end.When peter comes to harry begging him to help him stop venom and sandman,harry says no.Then peter leaves.Then the butler comes in and i swear to God this is an almost play by play recreation of the scene.

butler:"you know the night your father died,i tended his wound...it was self inflicted(what did you work on CSI!?!?!)he died by his own hand.i loved your father(ewwwww)and i love you(ewww times two)but you need to know that."(even tho i should have told you this two years ago when he died and not let you have a downward spiral to self loathing and utter hatred for the wrong man....hey who wants pie?!) I SAY AGAIN--BAD WRITING!

Before i go,i just want to say one thing.Don't respond with "But,it's just a comic book movie"Yeah,but when the studios buy these characters,and change the origins around of characters,change the costumes in order to make the story "more realistic",that's fine.I have no problem changing the origin that Sandman killed Uncle Ben,I have no problem when the x-men or any other characters have a new costume,that doesnt bother me.Because i am a geek,i do want to believe this world more than any other casual movie viewer.That's a cop out.If you want this world to be real than have great dialogue and a smooth flowing story that isnt crammed into 2 hours and 20 minutes.Flesh it out,pay the damn actors 20 million for a part 4 and expand this film.But it's too late now.Bottom line,"Batman Begins" is still the best comic book movie of all time---and overall i consider myself to be a Marvel fan.
Still that being said,go see it.I dont regret seeing it,i just dont plan on seeing it again,and thats a shame.

Yes Im a geek.:)

Holy crap.....what the hell was Sam thinking. I was so hurt by this movie i have no idea where to start. Spidey 2 was flat-out the best superhero movie, let alone the best movie in the past years. He follows that up with this? Why did they cram so much in when it wasn't fully developed!!!! No emotion, bland action scenes, no thrills or suspense, the only thing it had was humour. Bruce campbell steals this movie easily. Well, i will give it a second round next week so maybe with the letdown i experienced i might enjoy it more.

P.S Gwen stacy was hot!

The movie was packed with emotion,over the top CGI, more villains and a bigger plot. Over all it was good but the under development of Eddie Brock was the biggest let down.. They needed to have Eddie through out the series as a background character always getting cheated by Peter Parker instead of the at most 45 mintues build up that they film maker gave. Venom is a major villain within the later Spider-man comic series (1989 to now) and is generally a fan favorite, but in the film they make it seem like he is just is a problem step child that no one wants to claim.. I really hope if they bring venom back and segway him into the Carnage story to round out the series to a end... 7.0/10.0
P.S. I think it is time for a new director for a fresh change..
I hope Iron Man lives up to the hype that it is already building..

Going into the movie, I knew some of the stuff that would happen in the film. But seeing as I am a huge fan of the first two, I only expected the best from this film. But I was wrong. I was very disappointed with how much that was crammed into this film that wasn't explained. Like, randomly a rock just falls out of the sky and ooze just comes crawling out of it? What was up with that? It was never explained, which means the Venom story shouldn't of been in the film. The film should have only focused on Harry's story and Sandman. There was way too much going on to try to focus on every element in the film itself. The one thing that pissed me off is that Harry never helped Peter that was just flat out wrong. And Gwen Stacey really shouldn’t' have been in the film. That was just a stupid story line to be put in. And what was up with Peter being a little EMO kid. That was just wrong. WRONG. (What was up with the finger snapping?!) It really should have either been Venom/Peter/MJ, or Harry Osborn/Sandman. And what was up with the ending? Are we watching the third LOTR all over again? Multiple endings were not right. And Sandman turns into a good guy? This film really could of been a lot better than what it was. I was hoping for a lot more action sequences, and not Peter being all emo throughout the entire film. Seriously this was a HUGE drop for me being a Sam Raimi. The only best acting in the entire movie had to be Kirsten Dunst. She put on an awesome performance. I really didn't care for Tobey Maguire this time around. The death of Harry pretty much everyone was just cracking up in the theater. This film was a complete joke. And the legendary Bruce Campbell put on an awesome performance once again as well. Over all I don't think I'll give this film another shot. I'd rather spend my money on "PIRATES 3" this summer.

Holy crap.....what the hell was Sam thinking. I was so hurt by this movie i have no idea where to start. Spidey 2 was flat-out the best superhero movie, let alone the best movie in the past years. He follows that up with this? Why did they cram so much in when it wasn't fully developed!!!! No emotion, bland action scenes, no thrills or suspense, the only thing it had was humour. Bruce campbell steals this movie easily. Well, i will give it a second round next week so maybe with the letdown i experienced i might enjoy it more.

P.S Gwen stacy was hot!

I don't know if this website is connected to the new spiderman movie but that movie was crap. I read reviews saying there was too many characters and it was hard bringing the storylines together. That is bs. Some of those scenes in the movie were just ridiculous and pointless. They could have spent time showing the characters relationships other than Peter dancing and all other dumb stuff he was doing. For crying out loud they made him a frickin emo. They completely murdered the whole venom story which was easy to get right. They never even showed how venom was his biggest enemy. The final battle scene was just sad to watch. It was boring and not even close to 1 and 2. They put out a crappy product, but don't worry they'll still make their money by ripping us off for 2 and a half hrs. I don't want to hear any excuses, just admit it was a major bomb. Trust me I am not the only one who feels this way. MANY people were booing as we left the theatre. Thank you for ruining this trilogy and making it into another superman returns! I kind of got the feeling they just threw this together to get it out. The people who are saying this is a great movie have problems!

This Movie was Great and very well rounded, although because there was so much in this film, i see why it was harder to actually fit in, but Eddie Brock should have been developed a little more and should have been connected to the "Eddie" that JJ Jameson mentions in the first, but i have no real complain, and thought that everything was handeled well, Now as for Harry Osborn great way to close up the circle of friendship and all that the movie was very good all around. but i predicted the marvelous ending of this movie about 8 months ago, somehow but i did. And Sandman, WOW!!! when i first heard he would be in the film i thought who the hell really knows him why not use Lizard, which hopefully he will next movie, but Sandman was ..., well all of the villains were great.

Thumbs up to Raimi and the Team and Marvel for actually bringing out a good Film for a change( remember Marvel it Quality not Quantity thats important)

actually if you asked most star wars fans they'd tell you that the prequels were complete embarrassments.

i totally loved Spider-Man 3... it was a great send off, except i really can't for the life of me understand why Raimi decided to end the film (or the trilogy for that matter) with such a weak shot of these two at the jazz bar.... i mean, where was the over the top spidey swinging through the city dramatic closing shot????

funny thing is my brother is the authority on Spider-Man in my house, and he totally hated the film.... especially the way Venom was handled... i find it especially funny because i'm more of a Batman fan, and i can totally go and rip Batman Begins for hours over the way it sucked all the fun out of character.... but everyone seems to think it was perfect, while ignoring the fact that yes there was a Batman before Frank Miller touched the property.

i guess people are just taking this way too personally.... at least Raimi and crew never forgot that Spider-Man was actually a comic book.

The film, in my opinion, was AWESOME! Like the first one and the second one, yes, there were moments of bizarre obviousness and downright corniness- the news broadcast at the end springs readily to mind- but I felt that the characters' arcs in this film were probably the meatiest in the trilogy (especially Harry, whom I came to like more in this film than in either of the other two), and the decision to end on a more sombre note for Peter and MJ was a welcome relief from the traditional "hero in all his glory" endings of the first films (not to mention Batman, Superman the Movie, Daredevil, et. all).

If I were to list off my primary grievance, though, it would have to be Christopher Young's overly melodramatic score. Though he did use elements from Elfman's work on the originals, his blaring brass section and lack of any musical finess whatsoever only served to accentuate the... pulpier... parts of the movie, which Elfman was more deftly able to ground when he needed to. In particular, the overdone trumpet blasting that accompanies the introduction of the black suit manages to undercut all of the chill-inducing menace that the exact same shot possessed, sans music, in the teaser trailer.

However, for all it's little faults, I appreciate how the film takes the concepts and characters that are explored so vividly in the comics into newer territory, and that, furthermore, they're not unwilling to have some fun with the ideas presented to them (the dark Peter scenes were funny as hell). Overall, I'm glad that Sam Raimi tied up all the loose ends that had been left dangling, and he did it in an satisfying, yet almost inevitable, way, and hey- he managed to FINALLY get Venom on the big screen!

(Note: Who says that Venom is dead? There really wasn't enough corpse to justify that conclusion...)

(One Final Nitpick: Y'know, I never liked Bernard, the Osborn family butler, when he made his two-line debut in Spider-Man 2... so why, oh, why must we be treated to SO MUCH MORE of him in this one?!?)

All I have to say is that this movie was an utter disappointment. Right from the very start when Peter Parker was talking about "I'm spiderman and now everyone loves me" (CHEESY!!) I knew the rest would follow in that same way. Don't get my wrong, Spidey 1&2 were both that way but it was fun. This time around, however, it was overload. Not to mention, and I know people are getting sick of hearing this, but why the hell was Spiderman emo. No matter how much I hate that damn word it was undeniable. There was no need for eye liner or for Parker to be flipping his long locks around every second he was in that persona. I mean what the hell. This was less of an action movie and more of an ackward joke. Everyone at the midnight showing starting laughing hysterically when Parker showed up at Osborn's house to hash things out after being told that Mary Jane was with Osborne. We all laughed out a disbelief that Parker was really dressed that way. I mean did Ramai and the rest of the production team think that the audience would be too dumb to not understand that there was a shift in Parker's character just by Maguire's acting abilities. I completely think Maguire is a fantastic actor, so why not go with that. The only thing that saved this movie was Venom and that was barely a save. Venom was limited in this film and the way he went out was lame. However, I did not read the comics so if that was the way Venom was killed in the comics then I have more respect. Overall, I was so excited for this movie. I had been talking about how I haven't seen a good movie in a loooong time since Hollywood churns out crap on a regular basis. Well it has done it again. After leaving I immediately texted my roomie who was just as eager to see the movie and said that it was a complete piece of crap. That truly is what it was; crap from start to finish with some great moment, and let me emphasize moments of awesome special effects. If Pirates 3 is crap then I will completely give up on movies!!

The film was great, but Spider-man 2 can beat this movie over the head with it's writing and pacing. When I saw Spider-man 2 I felt like it was a separate film, not just a sequel that has no merit to stand on its on two feet. Sadly, this movie relies on you to be familiar with everyone and all of what's going on in Spidey world. Not that a bunch of people wouldn't know the characters, but I wish that the pacing was a bit slower on relationships (Eddie Brock and his girlfriend barley have any scenes together, so why should I care about them again?) and bit faster on some of the obvious plot points.

*spolier*

I saw Harry dying from a mile away, but turning good before death is always a great thing to have as a redeming quality. That part fit into the overall story well. What didn't fit too well was Mary Jane's overall I'm-not-good-enough-for-the-world problem that she's been stuck in for a VERY long time. So your boy friend's Spider-man and you can't compete with that. I wish you luck to find someone who can. She seemed too whiny and sad, yet the last two movies she seemed oblivious to the fact that Peter liked her. I'm grateful that the plot continues and doesn't get stuck, but at times during this film, I kept wondering if Sam Rami knew that he didn't want to pursue any more future films after this one. The ending kind of sets up the potential for a 4th film, but man, I don't know if I'd want to see it. This film ties up a lot of issues and I think if the series was going to end with the original director, cast, and mostly crew, then now is a better time to start.

I'm going to college to major in film and hopefully become a director/slave to a director soon, and if I could pull off what Sam Rami does with these special effects, I think I'd just retire....I mean, how the hell would I top myself? The most impressive scene is the crane shots, as the special effects get more technical and complicated (Spidey just can't jump down and rescue the girl, he's gotta avoid solid wall chunks and slide through a crane). The final battle scenes are great and are a true testiment that with the right amount of money, anything is possible in the movie business, even Venom's crazy twitch toward killing Spider-man. I mean really, that whole scene with Venom and Spider-man was sick.

Compared to the first two, this one does stumple a bit because of it's length and pacing, but overall, it's still a Spider-Man film that worthy of checking out more than once.

I saw the midnight show of Spider-man 3...and don't know what the heck happened with this movie...

I've been a huge fan of Spider-man since I was a youngin' I've got hundreds of comics from the 80s and early 90s, afterwhich I lost touch with the series. The 1st 2 movies were fantastic-I thought the 1st movie was very well done, and thought the 2nd was even better...so what went wrong?

Sam Raimi's an amazing director-he's got cult status from the Evil Dead films, the original Darkman, and obviously, the last two Spidey films.

The main cast was all here for the 3rd-with the addition of Thomas Haden Church as Flint Marko/The Sandman, Topher Grace as Eddie Brock/Venom, and Bryce Dallas Howard as Gwen Stacey.

Thomas Haden Church, in the little screentime he had, did a fine job as Flint Marko-He definitely looked the part perfectly, but had very little dialogue-and didn't have enough screen-time to really flesh-out his character.

Bryce Dallas Howard did a fine job as Gwen Stacey...but then again-the character wouldn't have been a stretch for anyone with blonde hair to play ;)

Topher Grace as Eddie Brock...his acting as Brock, pre-venom, was fine...but he in no way resembled Brock in the comics...Topher Grace "as Venom" was WRETCHED...there was not a single good thing about Venom...anyone familiar with any of the Spider-man and Venom graphic novels, or even remotely familiar with Venom from the comics, I'm sure shares my desire to puke buckets of shame onto anyone remotely responsible with the way Venom is portrayed throughout the enitrety of the film...you almost need to see it to appreciate how repulsed I truly am as to how they handled this character...which leads me to...

The CG in general...now-this movie was in development for approx. 2.5 years....so why do the special effects look worse than the 2nd film? Why does Venom look and animate so damn horribly-the only good special effects in the film you've seen on the previews-when Peter Parker rips the "alien symbiote" black suit off of his body and it fights back....almost everything with the Sandman looked horrible...all of the in air battles looked fairly weak-you could obviously tell when there was CG and when there were truly actors present...and the crane seen looked so damn fake!!!TOO MUCH CG!!! The final battle sequence...the whole thing just...SUCKED...the CG...the dialogue...the way it concluded...I just don't understand!?!

The end scene...made little sense...and left everyone thinking, "It's over?"

The dialogue...oh boy-there were many wretched puns/one liners that were meant to be funny, but came off so cheesy...there were many moments meant to be sentimental...but came off seeming over-acted and insincere...especially between Peter Parker and Harry Osborn, and Peter Parker and Eddie Brock...I don't understand what happened here...

AND...

Why's Peter Parker still using a damn pay phone!!! He's making good money taking pictures of "Spidey" at the Daily Bugle...shouldn't he be able to afford a cell phone by now!?!

The major problem:

Sam tried to put too much into one movie! Shit...the Venom saga could have been a trilogy in and of itself, but trying to tie of Harry Osborn's story, Flint Marko's story, and Eddie Brock's, along with Mary Jane's troubles, throwing in Gwen Stacey almost as a prop, and having the Crazy and extremely obviously CG action sequences take up too much damn time in the movie.
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What was good that hasn't been mentioned yet:

1. The battle between Harry Osborn and Peter Parker in Osborne's apartment
2. Kirstin Dunst as Mary Jane Watson-she was the only one without any horrible
dialogue, and her emotions never came off as being cheesy
3. Bruce Campbell as the French Waiter
4. umm....umm...!?!

I really wanted to like this movie!
I don't know what happened!
We need a complete Venom REDO!!! WTF were they thinking!?!?!
Peter Parker shouldn't still be so damn awkward....he does grow up in the comics...he shouldn't have been so damn GOOFY when he was "dark" he should be over the GOOFY shit by now....at least 90% of it...URG...

Well...anyway...I just needed to get that out. I'm very interested to see how the general public reacts to this sequel. I'm sure it'll make gobs of money...but I wonder if the same distaste will be left in people's mouths like I have in mine right now?

It wasn't the most horrible superhero film I've seen by any means...but it falls
WAY WAY short compared to Spider-man and especially Spider-man 2....at least in this Spidey fan's opinion.

-b

To begin with... a friend of mine works in industry and explained to me the importance of Spiderman 3 after I gave it a bad review... he said this...

"DUDE! You wanna talk about a waste of money? Tell that to SONY! I'm gonna see it and tell all my friends ot see it too. If that movie doesn't do good, I mean... WHAT will that mean for the Marvel franchise! What would it do to SONY?!?!!? I have people in there, I don't want that ship to go down!!!"

After reading some of these reviews and the critics reviews online... i am more convinced that people are desperate to find ANYTHING to like about this movie.

Facts about the movie experience…

- I saw it with friends at midnight
- I didn’t really care for the first one but I really liked number 2
- I was extremely excited, we wanted to see it on IMAX but it was sold out
- I am a loyal comic fan but I understand the adaptation process (the need to change the source material in order to make an entertaining movie)
- I like the overall cast (I’m not a Tobey, Topher hater...although I'm not a fan of Dunst)
- In the first five minutes, a female friend of mine turned to me and said (Is it just me, or is this movie kinda horrible already?)

Most important facts (I love going to movies)–
- I have fallen asleep in a movie theater twice – (Nightmare before Christmas, King Kong)
- I have gone to the bathroom during a movie twice – (LA Confidential, Grindhouse)
- I have only walked out of a movie once – (Little Nicky – I actually sat through “Fear Dot Com”)

Considering all this -
- I called my brother, during the movie, with a half hour left to go, and told him not to see it (No one around me seemed to mind that I was talking on my phone)

The movie –
- I felt like I was desperately waiting for the next action sequence (only two that are memorable)
- The audience laughed...at every dramatic moment...including the climax
- There was more of a positive response to Golden State beating Dallas than the entire film (people actually shouted updates and the eventual final score during the movie)
- My friends asked if we could leave, during the final fight sequence (some audience members did stream out)
- The only people I know that said they like it... admitted they were college students that were “So drunk during it”

See this movie if –

- You thought the first movie needed less action and a lot more crying
- You thought the acting in Star Wars Episode II was fantastic
- You thought the dialogue in Blade 3 was inspired

Don’t see this movie if –

- You want to see Venom for more than 15 minutes
- You like villains that are actually evil and not whiney crybabies (Sandman)
- You are annoyed by over-the-top coincidences (Sandman stumbles upon a truck full of sand, in the middle of New York City)
- You need more than a half minute explanation of what the venom suit is, or how Sandman is created
- You don’t want to see Mary Jane in jeopardy AGAIN, and watch her nearly fall to her death AGAIN
- You don’t want characters randomly introduced just to move the excruciatingly slow plot forward (The Butler scene... you will know it when it happens)

Final thoughts…

- This film reminded me of the feeling I had when Joel Schumacher took over the Batman franchise...and murdered it.

J. Jonah Jameson stole the show. I laughed so hard during the medication scene. All the other characters seemed hollow in comparison.

J. Jonah Jameson stole the show. I laughed so hard during the medication scene. All the other characters seemed hollow in comparison.

My biggest concern going into see Spider-Man 3 was that they wouldn't be able to properly give enough time to each element in the movie. And my assumptions were sadly true.

Raimi tried to squeeze too much into this movie and wasn't able to give most of the major subplots the time and development they deserved on the screen.

You have Peter and Harry's stressed friendship turned adversaries issue, the problems in Peter's and Mary Jane's relationship, Peter dealing with the black suit consuming him, Sandman as a new villain and bringing in Venom was just too much for one movie.

The tongue in cheek humor that Raimi is known for was good in the first two but there was a little too much in this one and detracted from the movie. It just became a little too campy at some points.

The one thing I was really looking forward to see and enjoyed quite a bit was to finally see Venom (OMG!) on the silver screen. He was a aesthetically appealing and a good adversary for Spider-Man. But as I said before, with all the elements crammed into this movie, Venom wasn't given his due justice/time on the screen.

Overall this was a fun movie to watch with cool villains and action scenes. To make this a great movie, Raimi should have cut the major subplots in about half to give everything in the movie the time it deserved. For the other half, he could have set them up for a 4th movie like he did at the end of Spider-Man 2 for the 3rd one. Overall, I give Spider-Man 3 a "C+".

Also, I just want you all to know that I'm a big Spider-Man fan. I took friday off of work just so I could go see the midnight showing. So before you start flaming me, know that I love the characters and only want the best for them.

This movie reminds me of Batman Forever. Batman Forever had the potential to be the best Batman movie of it's time, because of the story concepts it presented. SP3 does the very same. The story concepts of Venom, Pete vs. Harry, MJ vs Pete & Gwen vs MJ, Brock vs Parker, all of these concepts sound good and knowing the comic stories is exciting. However as the end credits roll, the terrible execution, the gay campy tone, and the overall under-delivery make you feel like you were ripped off and lied to by some pyramid scheme sales person. Compared to other Spider-Man films, I give this film an F minus minus. This movie should have been at least an hour longer, I'm talking Gone with the Wind Style, because that would have developed the characters appropriately and allowed you to become completely emotionally invested into the climax.

I love Sam Raimi. I hope he still makes another Spider-Man, but I hope he (and other directors that have comic book franchises to maintain cough*CHRISTOPHERNOLAN*cough) learned that if you are going to pack a movie with that amount of creativeness and potential...you'd damn well better deliver.

Spider-man 3 was flawed, yes, but fantastic nonetheless. The action, cgi, and acting was at the top of its game this time around, though like many, i thought everything was almost a little too cram packed in this one, not really allowing some story arcs to develop to well. Spider-man 3 was definetly better than the first, but not quite as legendary the "2". I thought the humor in this one really made it feel like the comic book, but it also had that serious tone at many parts which made it great. Good ending, hopefully Spider-man 4 will happen with Sam Raimi on board along with the usual spidey ensemble.

I feel also that alot of people are looking way too hard to find something to hate in this film. They gota forget about all those none important menial things that don't really matter and look at the amazing picture that Spider-Man 3 truly is.

I think the movie was outstanding. I would like to mention however, that the movie has been criticised for having 3 villains instead of the usual one. I would like to give my thoughts in this matter. I think that when we are dealing with black suit saga you have to have more than one villain. Spider-man has to have the suit before there can be a venom, and whilst he has the suit he has to have a villain. I think the choice of villains were good. New goblin was necessary as it rounded up the story of harry osborn which pervades the trilogy. There is no need for more back story as we have the other 2 movies which provide it. SecondlySandmanwas a good choice as he does not have much of a back story and is a new character unlike what we have seen in the past 2 movies, i think he was very well integrated into the story. Finally you cannot have a story of the black suit saga without venom. I think the special effects were outsanding and venom was particularly fantastic. My only criticism is that i would have liked to have seen the black suit being treated more like a symbiote as was done with venom. Spider-man removed the suit a couple of times and put it in a suitcase. Lastly, my other critics is very minor but i would have liked to have seen the traditional ending of spider-man swinging just before the credits. However, these details are minor and it is a fantastic movie definitly worth seeing. I will be going to the theatre again.

The movie was great HOWEVER, I would have perfered that the Venom story take presidence over Sandman...that they have Harry as the initial story and Venom as the second. The Venom fits in with what is happening between Pete and Harry and MJ. Sandman is the odd man out. I wasn't sympathetic to his story. Take him out and the film could have had one central theme about love and revenge. It would have been easier to manage, and I've no doubt Venom would have been given much more time. As it is Venom is a throwaway character as one poster put it.
The movie posters said it best. The darkness within. Venom, Harry, Peter, and MJ.

Spider-man 3 was flawed, yes, but fantastic nonetheless. The action, cgi, and acting was at the top of its game this time around, though like many, i thought everything was almost a little too cram packed in this one, not really allowing some story arcs to develop to well. Spider-man 3 was definetly better than the first, but not quite as legendary the "2". I thought the humor in this one really made it feel like the comic book, but it also had that serious tone at many parts which made it great. Good ending, hopefully Spider-man 4 will happen with Sam Raimi on board along with the usual spidey ensemble.

I feel also that alot of people are looking way too hard to find something to hate in this film. They gota forget about all those none important menial things that don't really matter and look at the amazing picture that Spider-Man 3 truly is.

I thought the movie was very good. The FX was great, the story was good, overall a very good movie. I did think that it got a little hokey toward the end and the buddy buddy scene near the end was really cheesy but like I said before very good and worth seeing again. People are trying to nit pick this movie, to find the negative aspects instead of focusing on the positive aspects. The acting was good, Is it just me or did James Franco do the best acting? At the end of the day, comics can go on for years & years, but movies based on comics need closure and this movie gave it. Great movie, just please do not make Spiderman 4, it is not needed & I would hate for this franchise to end on a negative note.

circanow73 is right on. It could have used some serious editing of the campy sections (Jameson with the pills, Peter dancing, Peter dancing again, etc). The villians felt underdeveloped, especially compared with Doc Ock in #2. Where was Venom's tongue? That was one of the coolest things about him. Overall, it felt like they were trying to do too much. You don't have to top #2, just give us more in the same tradition. Sandman had a lot more potential in the storyline with his daughter/family, and that could have been a great addition. 7 out of 10, because it was still a great movie, it just has the misfortune of living in Spider-man 2's impressive shadow.

Worth a mention:

Bruce Davidson's cameo-The best of them all!
Stan Lee's

Consider:

We weren't told more about the suit and how it negated Spider-man's spider-sense. I know this from the comics but more and more people in the audience of the midnight showing I attended asked that same question.

Mary Jane asked Peter what was up between him and Harry but shouldn't she already know? Harry said Spider-man killed his father in front of MJ so she knows the hatred he has for Peter.

I HAVE TO SAY BEING A FAN OF SPIDER MAN, AND VENOM BEING MY ALL TIME FAVORITE VILLAIN. I'M VERY DISAPPOINTED THAT HE HAD ABOUT 15 OF SCREEN TIME, I THINK THAT PART 2 HAD MORE DEPTH. I MEAN EVEN DOC OC GOT TO RUN AROUND THE CITY AND TERRORIZE THE CITY FOR AWHILE.

VENOM NEVER HAD A CHANCE TO DO THAT, AND I ALSO FEEL THIS TIME AROUND SONY WAS MORE WORRIED ABOUT THE CONGLOMERATE MONEY MACHINE, THAN AN ACTUAL STORY THAT WORKS. I THINK SANDMAN WAS A GOOD CHARACTER AND HE DID A GOOD JOB, BUT THEY COULD HAVE CUT ALL THAT FAT OUT AND HAD A BIGGER FIGHT SCENE. I GIVE THE MOVIE 7.5 OUT OF 10.

I HAVE TO SAY BEING A FAN OF SPIDER MAN, AND VENOM BEING MY ALL TIME FAVORITE VILLAIN. I'M VERY DISAPPOINTED THAT HE HAD ABOUT 15 OF SCREEN TIME, I THINK THAT PART 2 HAD MORE DEPTH. I MEAN EVEN DOC OC GOT TO RUN AROUND THE CITY AND TERRORIZE THE CITY FOR AWHILE.

VENOM NEVER HAD A CHANCE TO DO THAT, AND I ALSO FEEL THIS TIME AROUND SONY WAS MORE WORRIED ABOUT THE CONGLOMERATE MONEY MACHINE, THAN AN ACTUAL STORY THAT WORKS. I THINK SANDMAN WAS A GOOD CHARACTER AND HE DID A GOOD JOB, BUT THEY COULD HAVE CUT ALL THAT FAT OUT AND HAD A BIGGER FIGHT SCENE. I GIVE THE MOVIE 7.5 OUT OF 10.

Spider-man 3 was flawed, yes, but fantastic nonetheless. The action, cgi, and acting was at the top of its game this time around, though like many, i thought everything was almost a little too cram packed in this one, not really allowing some story arcs to develop to well. Spider-man 3 was definetly better than the first, but not quite as legendary the "2". I thought the humor in this one really made it feel like the comic book, but it also had that serious tone at many parts which made it great. Good ending, hopefully Spider-man 4 will happen with Sam Raimi on board along with the usual spidey ensemble.

I feel also that alot of people are looking way too hard to find something to hate in this film. They gota forget about all those none important menial things that don't really matter and look at the amazing picture that Spider-Man 3 truly is.

OK, so i just got back from the midnight showing.. and i have some negative, as well as possitive reviews. Im a huge spidey fan, yet ive learned from the past 2 films you never get spot on story... and i feel i'm no longer juding the movie from a "fan boy" status, but more of a "movie buff" because.. well i watch alot of movies.

First i'll start off with the negatives, to get them out of the way.

-Too crowded. i really hoped this movie would break the "villain" rule but over all Sandman was not needed in this film. I felt he made the story very congested. Harry and Brock worked, and flowed well with the story but with sandman he just congested it.. he didn't mesh with the main story and think with him gone it would have left more room for Venom. Which leads into my next critisism.

-Venom, was rushed.. i say congradulations to all you fan boys who begged and pleaded for venom to be on the screen pushing sony to do venom more and more. Whelp, i hope your happy, they initially spit on him. I didn't feel one bit sorry for Brock at all... and we were not shown enough emotion with him to really feel for why he hated peter parker. They should have shown us shots of him alone, struggling, being unable to pay rent, come into money woes.. etc... but instead.. they gave the emotion to sandman who surved little purpose. They also Failed to truley explain the symbiote which is a shame because venom was visually awsome, and very interesting. He left me wanting more to be told and focused on, but we got none of that. I also found it to be very very stupid to kill off brock. there was absolutely not a single bit of reason to do that. I also felt there should have been more of an explanation of the symbiote.. us comic fans know what was happening the whole time, but i felt like people who don't know venom could be getting very confused. plus... a friggin alien substance fell to earth and peter isn't really that curious about it? wears the egg head we love?

-smarts, ok.. so tobey was definately peter, in the scene where he went to MJ's play and started to ramble on about the lights or the sound systems and MJ said "your such a nerd" thats classic smart peter.. but why do we still not see that? i'd love to actually hear peter talk to himself, then show stupid flashbacks of him banging his head on the bell tower... peter should have known before the bell tower... the symbiotes weaknesses.. from running tests.. or finding out some other way... hell.. why did he even go to the bell tower in the first place?

-The scores, simply sucked. The music took me completely out of the fight scenes, and they lacked that "epic" quality to them. Scores are suppose to enhance a scene, not take you out of it. especially in some very emotional moments.

-My final complaint would be the cheese factor.. some scenes it works.. others ... no. The emo parker look? what the hell kind of woman is attracted to a greasey long banged nerd? that was completely unbelievable. The dancing was a way bit over killed.. and the jazz bar... peter magically playing a piano like that and the shots of his mouth like it was some freakish jazz dance music video.... over kill. which leads to my positive moments.

-the Comedy bits that worked.. J.K. Simmons scored yet again in probably some of his best moments in the films... as well as betty. The vibrating desk was brilliant and probably one of my favorite moments in the film. J.K. Simmons is J. Jonah Jameson. Bruce cambell got his largest role of the 3 films.. and his french waiter persona was hilarious.

-MJ, I was utterly SHOCKED, being a very anti-kirsten dunst as MJ person from the last 2 films i was utterly amazed by her performance this time around. I could tell she actually cared this time, as well as respected the character. She was actually Mj to me, at least the Mj of the comics today.

-Gwen, Bryce stole all her scenes, but the only scene that felt "gweny" to me was her first, in connors class... the rest simply was a "gwenJ" mesh... taking the elements MJ was missing and combining them with the "gwen" elements that kirsten's MJ was missing.

-Thomas Hayden Church, his acting was superb, but it was a shame it was wasted on such a useless character who was mostly there for "visual" scenes

-Aunt May, rosemary harris is always splended, i love her

-Harry, james franco did a great job, he was cute as hell with his "amnesia" and played such a hateful coniving bastard when he regained his memory

-chemistry, franco and Dunst, peter and dunst the trio are magic together.. even though tobey really didn't impress me this time around. tobey's performance was better then the second, but over all he was more "peter" to me in the first.

-story, i felt harry and the "symbiote" story fit very well and worked very well together. MJ struggling with her job and getting jealous worked very well and it was a good reasoning for the "spidey praise" which i was not fond of going into the movie... NYC never has loved spidey... not to the extent we saw, but i felt it was exusable due to it playing well with the story.

-Visuals. the fight scenes were awsome, and venom looked perfect, i was very impressed.

over all i gave the movie a 7 and will dub it "average", i liked it better then the 2nd, but i will compare 2 and 3 the same way i compare X-men 2 and 3... one movie lacked what the other got right so in a sense if you combined them, they'd be a perfect movie. but some things they got wrong in 2 they repeated double as much in 3... the cheese factor with peter being the main one... it was almost embarressing to watch his pelvic thrusts. Yet at the same time they fixed MJ, did well yet again with Harry, Jameson and May, and even tobey was slightly more bearable... this time he was much less whiney.. and he was indeed more confidant.

Spider-man 3 was flawed, yes, but fantastic nonetheless. The action, cgi, and acting was at the top of its game this time around, though like many, i thought everything was almost a little too cram packed in this one, not really allowing some story arcs to develop to well. Spider-man 3 was definetly better than the first, but not quite as legendary the "2". I thought the humor in this one really made it feel like the comic book, but it also had that serious tone at many parts which made it great. Good ending, hopefully Spider-man 4 will happen with Sam Raimi on board along with the usual spidey ensemble.

I feel also that alot of people are looking way too hard to find something to hate in this film. They gota forget about all those none important menial things that don't really matter and look at the amazing picture that Spider-Man 3 truly is.

I thought the movie was good. I have to say killing off venom was a bad decision. Blowing up the suit but killing eddie brock with it. They could have left eddie alive and left it that a small piece of the suit was left over in the flames and later finds its way to brock for a 4th movie. Venom should have been left for a 4th movie. Harry as the goblin was great & the sandman was great. The movie should have been on those 2 villians with a big focus takin them on and peter dealin with his personal issues. I still like the movie but it needed work. What can you do its done with. -J. Kellz

Spider-Man 3 is the biggest flop of the season. I thought that X-Men 3 was a disappointment but MAN! Spider-Man 3 sucked big time. There were far too many plot lines for ONE movie. And what was with the pacing of the movie?? 20 minutes into the film I was asking my girlfriend "when's this movie gonna finish?!". It was far too melodramatic as well. How can Tobey Maguire cry so much??! I mean, Peter Parker is sensitive, but not THIS sensitive! For Christ's sake he's supposed to be over 17 atleast and he cries like a 3 year old girl for the majority of the movie! And what was with is lip-synching with Mary Jane's broadway performance?! Can you get any more pansy than that?! Thomas Hayden Church as Sandman was perfect except for the fact that he was wasted with not enough to do on his own, CG took over the majority of his performance. I have to say that the Harry and Peter resolution to join together was a nice littel twist, but MAN!!! that still doesnt save the movie one bit. The only good parts were with J.K. Simmonds and his take as J.Jonah Jameson. Venom...my goodness...so many things could have been done better with Venom, by Sam Raimi really screwed it up.

In the end, the movie was just too melodramatic...there was not enough sense of reality set into the movie to make it a decent fare. Save your money on this one folks. If you wanna watch a really bad musical with over the top melodrama..this is the movie for you. But good Lord, if yoú're a real Spidey fan, stay AWAY! If you're a movie fan, stay AWAY! if you're just plain sensible ---STAY AWAY!!

Another super hero franchise comes crashing down. The only resolution to this disaster is a fresh restart to the franchise like with Batman Begins. So I guess we'll see a new and hopefully better Spider-Man in 10 years time. If you wanna look forward to something, look forward to the Batman Begins Sequel. Spider-Man for now...is over.'Nuff Said!!

Fans of the franchise will love this film, fans of the comics will hate it, fans of both will probably be in the middle somewhere. im the third and i was disappointed. as has been said, too much put into one movie. we didnt need 3 villans! venom is an iconic charachter in the comic book universe, let alone simply the spidey universe. the guy had his own comic book for gods sake! When I went to see the previous 2 films, i came out of the cinema wanting to go back and see it again, when i left the cinema today i didnt. i wanted to tell sam raimi all the things he had done wrong. i honestly feel let down by him and the screen writers. my main critique is venoms usage which was poor. grace was a good choice but not beefy enough. toby beefed up for the role of spiderman, why couldnt tropher workout for venom. and one little thing that REALLY annoyed me was venom died, and nobody even knew his name was venom, least of all venom himself! how lame! im hoping when venom was "exploded" and you saw eddies bones, what really happened was the symbiote was bonded onto his bones and stopped the death of venom...or something like that. he needs to be the main villan in the next one, and then him and spidey can do the team up thing against carnage! ok rant over, still some decent bits to the movie, and i guess ill still be buying it on dvd. ill give it 5.5/10

BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front)

I had the same problems as everyone else:

The source material was ignored.

Too much in this movie. They should have spread this out into a fourth movie, it looks like they were trying to get everything in because they didn't want to do a fourth.

Too many plot contrivances. Venom just happens to land next to Peter Parker's scooter just as Peter is about to discover his Uncle's real killer has escaped and become a super villan the week he plans to propose to Mary Jane and Harry decides to seek revenge? What are the odds?

So here're my thoughts:
Spiderman 3 is a good looking, well made movie that for most audiences will be a big giant thrill ride. For die hard fans it falls short of being the movie that it was made out to be.

It seems apparent that Star Tobey Maguire and Director Sam Rami were ready to wrap up the trilogy and move on. This film could have gone in several di