Spider-Man 3: Gwen Stacy Lives... AgainE. "Doc" Smithbyline‚ May. 11‚ 2007I'll confess, I'm a longtime Spider-Man fan, and in fact, I can still vividly recall my sixth grade teacher Mrs. Patterson; (a former WWII WAC), catching me reading Spidey's latest battle with Doctor Octopus during class; summoning me to her desk, and ceremoniously ripping it into four neat pieces before returning it and me to my seat of shame. Last weekend's blockbuster numbers for Spider-Man 3, don't necessarily translate into a great movie; critics have both savaged and praised the web-slinger's latest entry, so without much trepidation, I ventured out to see if Spidey delivered... He did. So with that being said, I am no stranger to the mythology of Spider-Man, and found this latest version of our hero's exploits filled with the same sort of Hollywood rewrites of well known story-lines that have plagued virtually all of the super hero films; Alicia Silverstone's Batgirl portrayed as Alfred the Butler's relative instead of Commissioner Gordon's daughter comes readily to mind. Nevertheless, Spider-Man 3's inexactitudes are overcome by fantastic special effects, and a story of love, redemption and sacrifice; all of the elements that made Spider-Man the comic book into one of the best loved and most popular of the genre. |