Spider-Man Reviews
Zertinet Movies
This is not a good movie, but a mediocre means of passing a few hours. It is a classic example of money and special effects diluting artistic vision and talent.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Top CriticThe origin story is well told, and the characters will not disappoint anyone who values the original comic books. It's in the action scenes that things fall apart.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Arizona Daily Star
This captures neither the letter nor the spirit of the Spider-Man of comic book and cartoon fame
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| Original Score: 2/4
L.A. Weekly
Introduced in 1962, the original superhero helped to initiate the age of modern comics. Raimi hasn't figured out how to reconfigure him for the blockbuster age.
Nick's Flick Picks
It's the kind of movie for which words of tepid praise are invented.
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| Original Score: C+
SPLICEDWire
...with the candy-like taste of it fading faster than 25-cent bubble gum, I realized this is a throwaway movie that won't stand the test of time. It's a trifle.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
This Spider-Man is a sticky popcorn film, that should appeal to a Multiplex audience looking for an escape film.
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| Original Score: C
The superhero part of the movie will leave audiences with a flat feeling.
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| Original Score: 2/4
In emphasizing angst over energy, the movie is much like its hero -- not the dashing crime fighter in a red-and-black bodysuit but the introspective nerd who both endears and exasperates.
Goatdog's Movies
Tobey Maguire is one of the only decent things about the film, and he is hampered by a completely and wholeheartedly adequate script.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
TheMovieChicks.com
The action is too repetitive (how many different ways can you swing between buildings). Spider-man just doesn't have enough tricks up his sleeves to sustain a two-hour movie.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
Eclipse Magazine
Elements of Lee's classic tales may be present, but each and every one gets doctored just enough to make them feel different, distorted, and unfaithful to the source material.
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| Original Score: C
Matinee Magazine
Just as much of a boring, by-the-numbers, interchangeable mess as the next.
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| Original Score: D
Unfortunately the film, like many of its ilk, is driven by special effects, and there's a serious disconnect between Maguire's sweet-natured dialogue and Spider-Man's pounding violence and stunning acrobatic work.
Apollo Guide
Despite its many action scenes and should-have-been tense moments, the film packs very little excitement.
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| Original Score: 78/100
Matinee Magazine
All the dough in the world doesn't disguise hollow, simplistic storytelling
Juicy Cerebellum
Leave this overblown Saturday Morning Cartoon where it belongs ... in the clearance bin at your local comic book store.
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| Original Score: 2/10
Needcoffee.com
It wasn't a terrible movie. Ah, but what went wrong? The filmmakers did not trust their audience.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Looks like about a trillion dollars' worth of digital effects and 25 cents' worth of plot.
Charlotte Observer
I'll sum up my reaction in a word: Yawn.
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| Original Score: 2/4
