Spider-Man 3 (2007)

All Critics (243) | Top Critics (50) | Fresh (158) | Rotten (92) | DVD (28)

At 141 minutes, this supe-opera is seriously overextended, with four distinct subplots and way too much hand-wringing over things like the heroine's singing career.

October 18, 2008 Full Review | Comment (1)

Bob Mondello

NPR.org

Top Critic

Too many villains, too many pale plot strands, too many romantic misunderstandings, too many conversations, too many street crowds looking high into the air and shouting "oooh!" this way, then swiveling and shouting "aaah!" that way.

November 16, 2007 Full Review | Comments (37)

Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Top Critic

Nap time. Perhaps it's the weight of expectations, the rattle of a zillion calculators or the curse of Bryce Dallas Howard (forever our Lady in the Water), but the latest Spider-Man is a fussy, dispirited affair.

May 5, 2007 Full Review

Joshua Rothkopf

Time Out New York

Top Critic

Raimi at least manages to make it both huge and human.

May 4, 2007 Full Review | Comments (2)

Stephanie Zacharek

Salon.com

Top Critic

After two epic successes that deserved their success, the latest installment swings between intense action sequences and unaccountably flat dramatic interludes.

May 4, 2007 Full Review

Joe Morgenstern

Wall Street Journal

Top Critic

One has to consider that the film's problems -- and they are numerous -- may be the product of the franchise's runaway popularity.

May 4, 2007 Full Review | Comments (25)

James Berardinelli

ReelViews

Top Critic

This is at least two movies crammed into one, and the seams are splitting; three villains, two love interests and a partridge in a pear tree means that Spider-Man has to fight for attention in his own film.

November 3, 2012 Full Review

Ali Gray

TheShiznit.co.uk

Spiderman 3 is best described as a Mexican soap opera with mind-blowing special effects.

April 26, 2011 Full Review

Julian Roman

MovieWeb

It's hard to complain of having too much going on, and the film is certainly extremely well crafted, but it's too ambitious and never quite meets its goals.

March 30, 2011 Full Review

Joshua Starnes

ComingSoon.net

Another third installment, another arrested adolescent gone wild

August 27, 2009 Full Review | Comments (6)

Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

Sam Raimi and company should have ... made a movie and not an f/x tapas plate.

April 23, 2009 Full Review | Comment (1)

Peter Keough

Boston Phoenix

You know that the third Spider-Man had to be bigger. The third movie in a franchise goes for broke. And Spider-Man 3 is bigger, if not better. It's overdone, overlong, and overplotted. It's all over the place. This does not mean Spider-Man 3

February 2, 2009 Full Review

Tony Macklin

Fayetteville Free Weekly

It is like a buffet. You look at the cast and trailers and you just start drooling over all the options. But they just overdid it, stuffing you with filler, and the juicy part of the film didn't start until it was halfway through.

September 4, 2008 Full Review

Jeff Bayer

The Scorecard Review

The third Spider_Man film is a bit like a web that's been hanging in a dusty corner for years: it's so weighted down with sticky bits and pieces of past detritus that it's in danger of being ripped apart by the new prey.

July 13, 2008 Full Review

Steve Biodrowski

ESplatter

An everything-plus-the-kitchen-sink production that thrives on its boundless energy and the sheer audacity of its vision.

April 10, 2008 | Comment (1)

Rossiter Drake

San Francisco Examiner

Spider-Man 3 is so burdened by the need to outshine its predecessors that it sinks beneath the weight of its own extravagant excesses.

February 28, 2008 Full Review | Comments (5)

Brandon Fibbs

Colorado Springs Gazette

Different in all the right ways-- a complex, unpredictable attempt at giving its audience a lot to chew on. Pardon those of us who will take a flawed opus over bloated unoriginality.

January 26, 2008 Full Review

Bruce Bennett

Spectrum (St. George, Utah)

... it's way too much of a good thing, but director Sam Raimi manages to pack it all in and even provide some satisfying character closure.

November 30, 2007 Full Review

Sean Axmaker

MSN.com

Kids will be dazzled, but the story falls short of No. 2.

October 31, 2007 Full Review

Sandie Angulo Chen

Common Sense Media

• 1. Mr. Ditkovitch: Give me rent.
  2. Peter Parker/Spider-Man: You'll get your rent when you fix this damn door!
  – Submitted by Wesley W (43 days ago)
• 1. Harry Osborn: How do you like that, Spidey?
  – Submitted by Cai C (50 days ago)
• 1. Peter Parker/Spider-Man: Stings, doesn't it?
  2. Harry Osborn/New Goblin: I protected you in high school, and now I'm gonna kick your little ass!
  3. Peter Parker/Spider-Man: [sarcastically] Ooohh.
  – Submitted by Andrew D (5 months ago)
• 1. Venom/Eddie Brock: I like being bad, it makes me happy.
  – Submitted by Michael V (6 months ago)
• 1. Norman Osborne/Green Goblin: [throws new spinning pumpkin blades]
  2. Peter Parker/Spider-Man: God, I hate those things!
  – Submitted by Kyle H (9 months ago)
• 1. Coffee Shop Waitress: How's the pie?
  2. Harry Osborn/New Goblin: So good.
  – Submitted by Troy N (9 months ago)