Film Review: Spider-Man 3 Wednesday, May 9, 2007 - I'm not really a huge Marvel Comics fan, but I have seen some of the first two Spider-Man movies, while my son seems to have watched them backward and forward several times. With all the hype surrounding Spider-Man 3, I decided to take my son to see this one and I honestly wasn't disappointed. There have been many rumors that this might be the last movie, if not for the franchise, than for Tobey Maguire who plays the title character and his alter ego Peter Parker. The writers seemed to have that on their mind as they tied up stories from the past two movies. While Peter's uncle was murdered in the first movie, it's revealed here that they had the killer wrong. The true killer is revealed here to be Flint Marko, played by Thomas Haden Church. Flint escapes from prison and scales the apartment building where his sick daughter is living. His crimes have all been to get money to make her healthy again, and he just wants to explain this to her. His ex-wife kicks him out, and escaping he falls into a pit that is testing a molecularization pit and is reduced to sand. A body rises out of the sand, and Marko becomes The Sandman. He travels either in human form or as a pile of sand, and can assume different sizes, depending on the amount of sand that is available to him. Once Peter Parker puts together Flint as the killer, and realizes he's now the Sandman, he makes it his mission to bring him down. Another continuing storyline that gets wrapped up is that of Peter's dissolving friendship with Harry, played by James Franco. Harry, whose alter ego is the New Goblin, mistakenly believes that Spider-Man was his father's killer. Finding out in Spider-Man 2 that Spider-Man was none other than his old friend, Peter, he now sets out to avenge his father's death, but once they do battle, Harry hits his head and forgets about the rift in their friendship. Peter also meets up with a new adversary at the Daily Bugle, Eddie Brock, played by Topher Grace. Eddie is a fellow freelance photojournalist, and competes with Peter over photos taken of Spider-Man. Their boss tells them that if they can catch "Spider-Man with his hand in the cookie jar," they can get a permanent staff position. Peter tells Eddie he'll never get that shot.
When Peter is canoodling with Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst) in a spider web, a black oozing substance attaches to him and ends up in his apartment. This substance multiples and surrounds his body with an alternate Spider suit in all black. While he first enjoys the new look, he finds that although it helps him to fight his adversaries, when he wears it under Peter's street clothes, it causes many problems in Peter's life, as it makes him far too aggressive. Eventually the substance also attaches to Eddie Brock, causing him to become Venom. This movie was completely action-packed, and for anyone looking for that, they won't be disappointed. At some points, the action was so quick it was hard to determine what was going on. But then again, I was under the influence of sinus meds. I did have a tough time accepting Church as Sandman and Grace as Venom, as I could only picture them in their respective sitcoms, Wings and That 70s Show. As far as storyline, I guess it's what you can expect from a Marvel Comics movie, but I did particularly enjoy the last parting thought. "Whatever battle rages inside us, we always have a choice." Yuddy Score: A Yud -Laura Tucker
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