Many critics and fans agree Spider-Man 3 is the weakest of the trilogy. I thinks its OK. It's not the worst thing I've ever seen (Vampires Suck) but it is still bad in many ways. Today I'm gonna explain why I think it failed.
#1: It didn't grow in terms of villainy.
Spider-Man's rouges gallery mainly consists of B, C, and D listers with the only two A listers being the Green Goblin and Doc Ock. I say that because Ock and Gobby have affected Peter's regular life and Spidey's life. Venom is somewhere in the middle of B and C. He was really cool in the beginning then he became shoved into every Marvel book, then they made him a Punisher like character. He just became muddled. In terms of storytelling, he really just appeared for a few minutes being easily taken out. Its one thing I hope they learn from with the new Reboot that they should do a Batman Begins. Starting small and making its way to the big picture.
#2 That Dance Scene.
You know it. I know it. The world will never forget Peter dancing. I justify it sort of by saying, the Symbiote feeds off rage. It turns Brock into a monster and Peter into an emo. There's something funny about how good Peter is.
Many people often forget the raindrops keep falling on my head scene from Spider-Man 2 and how no one really complained about that scene. The thing is the dancing scene is not meant to be taken seriously. I have met people who think it was serious. The women were appalled by him and walked away but the problem with that scene is that it lasts too long. If they trimmed it it would have been quick and no one would have thought twice.
#3: Underdevelopment.
No one really gets a resolution in this film. The ending is kinda ambiguous as to what happens next. Harry dies to soon, Sandman never really saves his daughter, No one asks about Brock and its all left in the open.
#4: It's too cluttered. To me this film is like a 5 year old playing with his Spider-man and Sandman toy then pulling his Goblin toy out of his toy chest then getting bored then pulling out a Venom toy. There is too much and like I said there is no real motivation or resolution for certain characters.
All in all Spider-Man 3 is a 3/5 film, and hopefully this reboot can learn a lot and who knows it could be better. Until then.
See ya.
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