Review – Spider-Man

Sam Raimi’s style as cinema auteur is as well-suited to this super hero as Tim Burton’s was to Batman. Thus the product here is somewhat predictable: a wise-cracking nerd-turned-hero fighting crime and looking for love. In other words, if you like the comic book then like as not you’ll like the movie too. The cast is solid, with Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst and Willem Dafoe playing their stereotypical roles to a tee. The effects fall a teeny bit flat every once in awhile, but for the most part the action sequences keep the plot moving. Though this isn’t likely to make it to anyone’s Top 100 of All Time list (or at the very least it isn’t making mine), it’s an entertaining piece of brain candy. Mildly amusing