Spider-Man 3 Reviews
TheShiznit.co.uk
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.
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| Original Score: 3/5
MovieWeb
Spiderman 3 is best described as a Mexican soap opera with mind-blowing special effects.
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| Original Score: 4/5
ComingSoon.net
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.
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| Original Score: 7/10
Boston Phoenix
Sam Raimi and company should have ... made a movie and not an f/x tapas plate.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Fayetteville Free Weekly
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
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| Original Score: 3.0/5
The Scorecard Review
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.
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| Original Score: 6/10
ESplatter
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.
San Francisco Examiner
An everything-plus-the-kitchen-sink production that thrives on its boundless energy and the sheer audacity of its vision.
| Original Score: 3/4
Spectrum (St. George, Utah)
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.
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| Original Score: B+
Common Sense Media
Kids will be dazzled, but the story falls short of No. 2.
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| Original Score: 3/5
JoBlo's Movie Emporium
Another fine installment in this very fun and exciting comic book superhero movie series.
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| Original Score: 6/10
HollywoodChicago.com
There were more subplots meringued together than a single film can eat. With a twinge more fluff whipped in, this could have easily been Spider-Man 4, too.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Antagony & Ecstasy
It ends the trilogy not with a bang but neither with a whimper.
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| Original Score: 7/10
eFilmCritic.com
It's been a fine if bumpy ride with Raimi down this corridor of Marvel Comics history, even if I'd love to see him working on something cheap and scrappily funny again.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Big Picture Big Sound
There are one too many teary redemptions, one too many airborne rescues and, finally, one too many climaxes. But we'll forgive Mr. Raimi his excesses.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Stranger Song
Spider-Man 3 is impressive even in light of the fact that its unwieldy ambition often does more harm than good.
Zertinet Movies
A successful bit of thoughtful escapism that balances the sensory thrills of the number one with the more serious thoughts of number two.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)
While many other franchises have infamously fizzled out on their third installment, Spider-Man 3 is a creative and technical triumph.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Screen It!
All told, the film is still moderately entertaining, although the individual parts are certainly greater than their sum as a whole.
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| Original Score: 6/10
