Rating: 
Summary: Never a Dull Movie From Sam Raimi
Review: Spider-Man, the Marvel Comics hero, has been adapted and changed for the big screen. Peter Parker is an unassuming student who is smart, shy, and loves the girl next door (Mary Jane). But a trip to Columbia University's science department changes his life. There he is bitten by a genetically designed super spider.The bite causes genetic changes in Peter and he becomes part spider. At first he wants to use his new abilities to make money so he can impress Mary Jane. But when his own spiteful inaction leads to the death of his uncle, peter decides to fight crime. The movie does a nice job of setting the stage of the series while still brining in a super-villain. In this film, the villain is The Green Goblin and his movie incarnation is nowhere near as silly as his comic book version. Casting was well done for most of the cast. Dunst manages to give some excellent Mary Jane smirks, the Osbornes actually look like they could be father and son and J. Jonah Jameson looks like he stepped right off the comic page. But is they worked so hard on Jameson's look, why were there no widow's peaks for the Osbornes? There have been changes to the character and story of Spider-Man. Most notably, he actually generates webs (from his hands no less) so there will be no classic empty web-shooter plot twists. Mary Jane is not killed off on the bridge as she was in the comics (an issue of What If showed just how horrible the world would become is Spider-Man succeeded in rescuing her). We see how Peter's fingers can cling to the wall but, like in the comics, we still don't know how his shoes do it. This is a fun film and if you can get past the fact that it is not the comic book you should enjoy it. The only real flaws I saw were a few inconsistencies in scale during some of the CGI scenes (that and the total lack of concern on the part of the University when it is pointed out that there is a super-spider missing).
Rating: 
Summary: Dullsville
Review: What a tangled web this movie weaved as it failed to deliver on its theme. The new Spiderman cartoons are infinitely better. I guess one had to expect Hollywood would take on Spidy, given the success of other superheros on screen, but Tobey Maguire was a very poor choice for the lead. His big doleful eyes may bring you into such movies as Pleasantville, but he just doesn't cut it as the webbed one. The movie is excrutiatingly long, boring my 9-year old and myself to death. What little action can be found in this movie has been done so many times over that the thrill is gone.
Rating:
Summary: I liked it, I feel it's slightly over rated though
Review: I have to admit when Spiderman came out, I was excited. This is what any comic book fan had been waiting for. After seeing it, I just didn't have the enthusiam that I did when I went and saw it. Spiderman tells the orign of spiderman almost to the exact that it did in the comic books. The same for the green goblin. I was impressed and loved that Sam Rami did that. A comic book movie has to stay true to its roots. If it doesn't it disrespects how it got to the big screen. Spiderman didn't do that. Tobey Maguire was a good Spiderman and Peter Parker. He developed the character well and was most of all believable as Spiderman. Tobey has the look that Peter Parker had in the comics. Kristin Dunst plays Mary Jane Watson who is Peter Parker's childhood crush. She looks great in the movie. It's a better role for her than some of the ones she has played in the past. Her and Tobey have good chemistry together, but this is one of the places that I thought the movie got itself in some trouble. While Peter did like Mary Jane, his real love was Gwen Stacy. That's the only place were Sam Raimi messes up in this movie. Also the love scenes are to drawn out. Especially the one in the hospital. William Dafoe was a perfect Green Goblin. He impressed me a lot in the movie. The guy has always come off to me as an intense actor. He plays an intense character and does it well. I also loved the shape the guy was in. Both him and Tobey got in amazing physical shape to play there roles. Another thing I didn't like in the movie was the fight scenes. I thought most of them were to CGI. I felt they should have put more hand to hand action in there. I also didn't like the power ranger like costumes. I did however like some of the special effects. Spiderman when he web slinged was impressive. Without CGI they wouldn't have been able to do a lot of that. He look as real as a Spiderman could. I liked Spiderman. I do it. I just felt it was long and drawn out in places. I'd reccommend it to everybody. It's a film the whole family can sit down and watch together. It's a movie I think everybody should see. I just felt the movie was to overrated and can' see how it grossed 400 plus million at the box office. I own and I like it, I feel you will too.
Rating:
Summary: Not very good
Review: I was expecting this movie to at least be OK, with all the hype and what not. However, it was not. The good: Willem Dafoe, the editor of The Bugle (forgot his name), and Dunst's legs. The bad: both the story and acting seemed extremely forced and cheesy, the special effects were laughably bad (which should be unacceptable for a movie with this high a budget), and the special effects were seemingly used JUST to be used and did not further the story or add to anything. Overall, an extremely average movie. I'm glad I rented this, as I'd be pretty PO'd to have put down $15 or more for it.
Rating: 
Summary: If this doesn't suck, I don't know what does!! Total crap!!!
Review: OK, let's face it, fans of the super heroe genre will find this the ride of their lives, while other people, (most people) will find it the worst movie ever created. As you have probably guessed already, I am one of those people. I've never been more dissapointed in my life. Yes, the advertising made it look neat as hell, though as far as I'm concerned, I'd rather watch that trailer over and over again for two hours and not have to sit through this flop
OH NO!!!!!!!!! Sarah Jane is falling off the bridge!!! Let 'er fall, Tobey. That would at least make the running time shorter and I'll be able switch YOUR DVD with THE DAREDEVIL DVD!!! Yep, even I can act better than you, Tobey! Your almost as bad as Anakin Suckwalker-oops- I mean Anakin Skywalker from Star Wars Episode II, Attack of the Clones. Also, what's with that storyline? It's almost as though it was scribbled down on a notepad in a matter of seconds! He kills his friends father, his friend says he's going to kill Spiderman, he turns down his girlfriend, it even gets worse. So much worse, it's almost laughable. Infact, it is. Well, I gotta tell ya, I was routing for the Green Goblin. If Spiderman had died and Sarah Jane had matched back up with Tobey's retarded friend, the ending would have been less depressing. Believe it!!!
So, in conclusion, the dumpster would be a better spot for this DVD than the shelves. Die Hard action fans may enjoy this trash, though for and any others,
save your money.
Rating: 
Summary: Total classic
Review: Loved this movie, and like it was said before, and will be said again, the kiss was totally classic. Loved the soundtrack to this movie, as well!!!
Rating:
Summary: A Superhero To Laugh At
Review: "Spider-Man" stars Tobey Maguire as the eponymous superhero teenager who gets bitten by a radioactive spider and acquires increased strength and dexterity and heightened senses. Maguire plays the quiet loser Peter Parker. Peter lives with his Uncle Ben (Cliff Robertson) and Aunt May (Rosemary Harris) who live next door to Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst). Peter has a major crush on Mary Jane; but, she is going out with his best friend Harry Osborn (James Franco). As Spider-Man, Peter battles the scientist/CEO Norman Osborn (Willem Dafoe) gone bad as the Green Goblin. As Peter, Peter finds work as a freelance photographer at the local paper where he gets abuse from the Spider-Man-hating editor Jonah Jameson (J.K. Simmons). As far as action movies go, "Spider-Man" is a big disappointment. A lot of this has to do with who Spider-Man is. After all, he is just a kid. And in Tobery Maguire, he is a kid who is just not believeable as an action hero. I guess that was always part of the allure that Spider-Man had for comic book readers. Since most comic book readers are kids, they probably got a thrill out of seeing another kid dispensing justice. In a big budget movie its actually pretty laughable. This movie is sort of like "Home Alone" meets "Superman". I got the impression while watching the movie that the writers were checking off a list each time they hit a major point in the script. The plot has no life of its own and you feel like it was pre-determined before it was ever written. While I'm not a big fan of any of the major actors in this movie, I have to say that even they deserve more than what they were given with this script. "Spider-Man" just falls completely flat in all respects.
Rating:
Summary: awesome!!!
Review: This movie was great. The fight sequences were good. Everything in this movie was great. I really enjoyed watching Spiderman. I can't wait 'til the second one. Especially the ending was good. The special effects were great. The music was good and the script was good. The fighting in the middle of the movie was the best of the fighting sequences, and it was the best fighting sequences I saw.
Rating: 
Summary: Watchable But Doesn't Exceed Specification
Review: * Sam Raimi's SPIDER-MAN is a big-budget attempt to do for the
Spider-Man mythology what the modern BATMAN movies have done for
the Batman mythology, and in fact takes much of the same
approach. Raimi's story remains true to the core elements of the Spider-Man
myth: student Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) is bitten by a
mutant spider and acquires super powers, including great strength,
heightened senses, and the ability to spin webs. (In the
Marvel Comix series the webs are artificial, but in one of the
number of liberties Raimi takes with the mythology the movie Peter
Parker can actually shoot the webs out of the skin of his forearms.) Parker has to conceal his secret identity from Mary Jane Watson
(Kirsten Dunst as a redhead) and his Aunt May (Rosemary Harris),
while selling photos of Spider-Man's adventures to obnoxious
newspaper editor J. Jonah Jameson (J.K. Simmons), who has a
irrational hatred of the "web-slinger" but knows he sells papers.
However, Spider-Man has worse problems than Jameson in the
form of the "Green Goblin", a psychopathic super-villain
who is actually Norman Osborn (Willem Dafoe), father of Parker's
good friend Harry Osborn (James Franco). As far as the plot goes, it's so dictated by the Marvel Comix
scenario that it is impossible to really say much about it.
If you buy the Spider-Man concept, you basically have to buy
the story. To be sure, there may be those who dislike some
of the tweaks in the movie, but I thought they made good sense. The weakest part of the movie is the dialogue. After I'd made
it into the last half of the flic I began to wonder: "Is there
*any* dialogue in this thing that actually rings true?" It
all has a cheesy sound, and if anyone ever spoke like that
in the real Universe you'd wonder what planet they were from. And then I laughed: "What else could I expect from Sam Raimi,
one of the all-time kings of B-video productions?" Indeed, in
a sense the cheesy dialogue of the movie tends to match the
cheesy dialogue of most comic-book scripts, and in that sense
the movie is also being faithful to its roots. Still, I wish
it would have been played with more of a wink, and I felt
sorry for the cast to have to try to deliver such lines with
a straight face. Some of it I had to fast-forward through
since it was so obvious, and I didn't miss anything. What I liked the most about the movie was the action
visuals. To be sure, they had some cheesiness too, but
the scenes of Spider-Man web-slinging through
New York City can actually make a viewer a bit dizzy. So, all
in all, this is an OK if not spectacular flic, and I will no
doubt pick up on the 2004 sequel, which I understand will
introduce Doctor Octopus.
Rating:
Summary: A GREAT FILM: DRIVE, PASSION, FLASH & RESONANCE
Review: As a kid, I read the SPIDERMAN comic books and, I'm glad to say that the movie followed the thrust of the comics quite well.
Unlike many of the other marvel comics, Spiderman was really a teenager trying to do the right thing, yet still being viewed as a villain by powerful people (i.e. like the head of the major newspaper making Spiderman out to be a villain). His choices resulted in hurting not only people he loved, but the common man and woman. In addition, the villains always seemed to have more and be respected more than Spiderman ever could. All of these themes and hard points are also covered in the film, which makes it great for comic book fans. In addition, to make it marketable we've got all the usual CGI effects, as well as some cool scenes and a popular cast (i.e. Tobey McGuire, Kirsten Dunst and Willem Dafoe). SPIDERMAN was suppossedly the highest grossing film for 2002. The first movie shows how Spiderman became who he was and details his first set of challenges. Note that SPIDERMAN 2 is soon coming out.
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