Spider-Man

Pros: Great script, special effects, and acting by all--as good as any "realistic" drama

Cons: Cons? Sez you!

The Bottom Line: How many other comic-book adaptations make you cry?

Review: For months, I've been agonizing over having to endure the movie version of Spider-Man. Another comic-book movie? With wimpy Tobey Maguire as the superhero?? Having seen it, I've never been happier to have my expectations shattered.

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Pros: Good SFX

Cons: Most action scenes are boring as are most characters

The Bottom Line: If you are a fan of the comic book, have at it...

Review: Reaction: When I walked out of the theater, I was disappointed and angry. I mean I was fuming and could not contain my disdain for the film. It was like I had been cheated out of two hours of my life and I wanted my money back despite the...

Pros: Nice story.

Cons: Willem DeFoe is over the top again. Too much CGI

The Bottom Line: I wouldn't rent it again, but I wouldn't run from the house if someone else did.

Review: Spider-Man is out on video and DVD. I had not seen it when it first came out because I was overseas and simply missed it in the couple of days it played at the local theater where I was living. Still, everyone I knew had enjoyed it, so I...

Pros: Entertaining for young and old alike

Cons: Too predictable

The Bottom Line: This isn't the best movie ever made, nor is it the worst. I'd watch it again!

Review: As a child, I loved reading Spider Man comic books. As an adult, I couldn't resist watching the new Spider-Man movie. It's always been amazing to me how a spider bite could cause a man to morph into a man capable of making spider webs, climb the...

Pros: the special effects

Cons: not quite like the comic books

The Bottom Line: Yeah, I loved the movie but, if the movie is supposed to be based in the comic books then it should be done in detail as the comic books are.

Review: The movie was excellent actually. I liked the special effects and all but, the movie was supposed to be based on the comic books & well, in some way it was but, not really. You see, in the first comic book, Spider Man's costume wasn't the red & blue...

Pros: Good adaptation, nice allegory, easy to identify with, Maguire and Simmons

Cons: Drags in parts, not much of that superhero vs. supervillian stuff we expect

The Bottom Line: I wanted to be Spidey when I grew up. I'm still waiting to grow up and get my Spidey-slacks.

Review: Comic books have always appealed to the adolescent (and perpetual adolescent) because they exploit a teenager's fantasy of power at a time when that person is realizing the larger scope of things and their small, often powerless place in that world...

Pros: Moments of Acting, Moments of Story, Moments of Character

Cons: Special Effects, Much of the acting and character, Way the plot is underdeveloped

The Bottom Line: When bitten by a radioactive spider, Peter Parker develops into Spiderman and combats a mentally-ill scientist who is blowing up everything. Sigh.

Review: I consider the moment Tim Burton's "Batman" debuted in theaters to be the moment that super hero movies crossed over into the mega-blockbuster range. "Batman," even more than the "Superman" movies of the late '70s offered viewers something different...