Kirsten Dunst stars as Peter"s love interest in the film, Mary Jane Watson. His practice session while learning how to web-sling around the city is reminiscent of the Tarzan rip-off, George of the Jungle. Maguire stays true to the innocence and torment of the original comic hero and even adds his own comedic flair to the teenage boy"s realization that he has become one of the most powerful human beings on the planet. Peter is bitten by a genetically engineered spider and is thusly transformed into a superhuman with spider-like powers. Tobey Maguire, an inspired casting choice by-the-way, stars as Peter Parker, alias, your friendly neighborhood Spiderman.
But, if like me, Spiderman was what pulled you through the puberty years, this will be the best movie of the year, if not the decade, even though the director, Sam Raimi, took some dramatic license with the origin of the wallcrawler. That being said, if you have never read a Spiderman comic or even been interested in the world of superheroes, you"ll consider this movie a "cute little live-action cartoon" that was worth the visit to the theater. And,Ģ) I have yet to see Kirsten Dunst in anything I did not like. For a comic book fan whose hero as a child was this wall-crawling smart-aleck, this movie was going to be good.no matter how bad it actually was.ĭisclaimer: Just so you know, this review is not completely objective for two reasons:ġ) I have been waiting for this movie since I was nine-years old. But I left the review in its original form specifically to show the excitement I felt when it was released. Spiderman, of course, has been available on DVD for many years. I rewatched this movie recently on 123Movies new site. It is being published here as I originally wrote it. The review was originally written the day of its release in 2002 and will be included in my upcoming book of all of my movie reviews.
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