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Summary: Mike Tyson vs. the Devil... DING DING!
Review: Films of this sort require you to take an enormous amount of disbelief, but even when knowing this, it's still an ugly and pretty bad movie. When I first saw the trailer for "Spawn," my mouth dropped in sheer joy. It was released in the summer of '97, which is when I had just begun reading the Spawn comic books, and I really couldn't wait to see it. Roger Ebert gave it three and a half stars, and I expected some sort of revisit to Batman's glory days...But, oh, man. What a disappointment. For the first five minutes of the film, I was very much hooked. It opens with a merciless assasination, and goes headfirst into probably the best opening credits sequence I've ever seen in my life. But after that, it goes totally downhill. The special effects are great, but the script is cartoonish, and the acting is remarkably bad. Michael Jai White (who played the title role in HBO's Tyson) is okay as Spawn, but his overracting and bad delivery of emotion get to be rather tiresome. John Leguizamo is Clown, the Devil's cronie, a character so campy and corny, it made me want to laugh out loud. And then there's Martin Sheen, who plays an unbelievably evil mortal bent on world domination (original, huh?). His performance is nothing spectacular, either. But despite bad acting, I think most of the fault should fall on director Mark Dippe. New Line should have hired someone else for this movie, like Tim Burton or Alex Proyas, because aside from doing special effects, this guy doesn't know what the hell he's doing. Some of the camera angles just make you scratch your head and wonder, "Why?" I give "Spawn" two stars for the special effects and the opening credits sequence. Pretty sad, huh? Yeah, well, if you're about to see it for the first time, you'll agree with me. P.S. -- Spawn's cape was awesome.
Rating: 
Summary: Read the Comic Book Instead
Review: Special effects are good, and that is just about it. The screenplay--if you can call it that--seems like it was written by a prepubescent; the "plot" is ridiculous and incoherent, and the dialogue, well, I have heard better in saturday morning cartoons. The film's attempt at a profound meaning is naive. Please, do not expect me to deliniate the story for you--it is muddled and unfathomable. "Spawn" left me thinking, "What kind of a film is this?". For example: In one particular scene, Spawn jumps into a fireplace (yes, a fireplace) and is transported to a hell-like dimension where he encounters an army of demons led by some kind of fire monster. If you want a good laugh, listen to the monster's farsical and cartoonish voice! It may be worth watching just for that! I have never actually read it, but after watching the film, I cannot help but think you would be better off reading the comic book.
Rating: 
Summary: OK Comic book movie.
Review: Although not very faithful to the comic books, still the special effects are good. It's about a soldier named " Al Simmons"
who got murdered by Jason Wynn ( played by Martin Short) and
is sent to hell, where he makes a deal with the dark lord
" Malbolgia" to become a Hell-Spawn so that he can see his wife again. If your a fan of the comic book you might be disappointed,
otherwise just stick to the great Animated series.
Rating:
Summary: What a complete waste of time
Review: I think my title sums it up. I can't believe that Todd McFarlane (Spawn creator) could have spent so long developing his incredible comic book (the art alone is wroth the cover price!), and then coped out and let this piece of garbage into theaters. I thought the old Captain America movie was awful, but this movie is probably the worst comic to film translation I've EVER seen. How bad it is has become especially apparent in the last few years since the release of Blade (which rocked), and the upcoming Blade 2 and Spiderman movies. The only comic to film transition even close to being this bad in recent memory is X-Men, another complete waste of time and money. If you're into Spawn, buy the animated series, all 3 seasons, on DVD, and be happy.
Rating:
Summary: Terrible
Review: It's no surprise that the Spawn comix have so much appeal: the Satanic imagry combined with its anti-hero makes for an anti-establishment favorite. But the film adaptation fails in everyway: Horrid dialogue, terrible script that seems to have been written by a high school student, bad acting and, yes, weak FX: The CGI is laughable. MTV editing induces little more than a headache and the obnoxious music begins to intrude upon the action. Indeed, there's not even a compelling atmosphere: the film wants to be dark, but it isn't dark enough. Spawn is terrible. I'm done.
Rating:
Summary: Great Explosions, Terrible Plot.
Review: If you're happy simply with big explosions in your movies, you'll like it, but if you want a decent plot look elsewhere. I thought this movie was terrible.
Rating:
Summary: Cheesy
Review: In this superhero/armagedon movie, the guy from the English Patient is destined to be the leader of an evil army that will take over the earth. Before that, however, he must shed his skin and pay a visit to a flaming underworld ruled by Francis the Talking Mule. He receives a "spawn suit", a grimy, living costume that allows him to battle supernatural beings. A bunch of other stuff happens, but none of it's important to the plot (or anything else I can think of), so I am not going to put myself through the agony of writing about it. Take my advice and shop for a better movie.
Rating:
Summary: Needs Work
Review: I first saw Spawn in 1999. It was interesting and enjoyable. The special effects were pretty good and Martin Sheen and John Leguizamo were convincing enough as bad guys but the story was just about death and vengence. You never know Spawn's feelings. Based on a comic book I thought it was going to be fantastic but it is too dark.
Rating:
Summary: The good, the bad and the very ugly
Review: Spawn is a flick that could be defined in those three terms. As an action flick or a movie that is based on a comic book Spawn is far below par. Unforunatly the movie is absolutly hollo as far as story, plot or charachters you'll like. The Good: Pretty Good action scenes. Average special effects with fight scenes. John Legazamo is funny as the clown.(especally the cheerleader scene) The Bad: Cheesy Hell scene that looks awful. Satan looks like he was drawn by third-rate art school grades. Micheal Jai White didn't bring any sympothetic attributes to Spawn's character. Plot was so thin that was writen by a creative writing class drop-out. The Ugly: Martin Sheen's character was so cardboard villian you could image him twisting his mustache in a Keystone Kops. It wasn't dark enough. Why did the suburbs still exist if this was suposed to be a despotic soceity with masive homeless people? I agree with one of the other reviewers that if Burton had directed it it would have been better. As far as action flicks its boring.
Rating:
Summary: Should have been the best comic book movie ever made...
Review: ...but instead the movie version of Spawn is nothing but a disappointment. The special effects and makeup are great, as is John Leguizamo as Clown, but there is a lot of overacting and the storyline is boggled and shameful for something out of the Spawn universe. It gets two stars for special effects/makeup, and John Leguizamo, other than that, it goes right down the crapper.
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