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Spider-Man 3
Starring:
Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Thomas Hayden Church, Topher Grace,
James Franco
Directed
by: Sam Raimi
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Tobey Maguire Interview
Kirsten Dunst Interview
Bluntly
speaking? Spider-Man
never gets old. You shudder when you here Die
Hard’s coming back to theaters. Willis will probably
spray paint hair on and jump from a flaming aircraft. You know
before you even enter the mega-plex doors. Folks are going to
blow up and die real good; well loudly.
In Spider-Man
they’ve decided to make every one “more human”
if you will. Apparently that means lots of tears.
Again, that’s
just their melodramatic way of arc-ing the trilogy I suppose.
But it’s a block-buster based on a comic book. Let go
off your gray-matter logic and enjoy.
Peter Parker
(Tobey
Maguire) has settled down to domestic life with M.J. (Kirsten
Dunst). But naturally the smoothness of their lives has
to be disrupted…or we’d have no film folks.
Spider-Man
saves the beautiful Gwen Stacy (Bryce
Dallas Howard). Then, during a ceremony hailing the deed
he kisses her.
I’m
not telling whether it’s masked or not…
But the
smooch is spotted by M.J.- who is presently bombing on Broadway
and in a tailspin of emotional doom. The whole all-about-Peter-Parker
is getting old. Fast
Meanwhile
thanks to a super goop from outer-space, Parker's rethinking
this whole goody-two-stockings deal. The black goo a tar-like
magic-shell topping that takes inner aggression and morphes
it into a personality of its own; it makes its wearer over-euphoric
about themselves. But it's really an evil liguid crack from
outer space; The
Blob of 2007.
This mysterious
goop also has started to effect Parker’s jealous and nosey
coworker Eddie Brock (Topher Grace). On this guy the crude goop
takes the 100 pound actor and morphs him into a frothy rabid
poodle who's filled with venom; the yin of Parker's yang.
Oh, and
another villain Flint Marko, has become the evil Sandman (Hayden
Church). He has some unfinished anger to wield towards Gotham’s
do-gooder. He's also practically unbeatable...
There's
about five stories going on at once - which does get a bit annoying.
But Spider-Man is absolutely grand as far as special effects.
Especially this Sandman fella.
And Bruce
Campbell makes a rather odd but semi-funny addition to the stew
of characters and multiple stories to engage you. He's in all
Raimi's films so deal with it...
But it's
Peter Parker's "To be or not to be," on several life
matters that will choke you up. Or if you're not-so-into Spider-Man
and had to go because it's their time to pick the movie, just
giggle...
Question:
How many characters does it takes to ruin and end a Spider-Man
franchise? Answer: We won't have that answer untill the box-office
decides if there's gonna be a fourth film. But this is like
Spider-Man the action game and you hit the all-in button. After
the biggest box-office opening in history, you can almost count
on some more of these. Though, according to the interviews,
Maguire and Dunst are 86'ing the gig.
And here
in Spider-Man 3, somehow, director Sam
Raimi has managed to get the special effects department
to trump themselves yet again. Visual over kill? Yep, you betcha!
But it's summer - chill. This is fun-o-rama.
Snack recommendation:
Black licorice and black
cherry and vanilla splenda flavored cola
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