Spiderman 3 and the Sequel Summer to Be

The full Spiderman 3 review is below, but first I have to talk about the crazy number of sequels this summer. So many that even the fact checkers at Newsday have the number wrong. In this weeks edition of Fanfare, Newsday said there were 13 sequels, by my count there are at least 16 and I list them below. If the title is Red, then I already saw it, if Green, then I will be going as soon as possible, the rest I may skip.

28 Weeks Later (May 13) - seeing this weekend.
The Bourne Ultimatum (Aug. 3) - no CGI here.
Day Watch (June 1) - Sequel to Night Watch, a low budget Russian
vampire/supernatural movie. Very cool
Evan Almighty (June 22) - no Jim Carrey, but I can live with Morgan
Freeman and Steve Carrel.
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (June 15) - Jessica Alba
Fay Grim (May 18) - Sequel to Henry Fool
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (July 13) - Last book comes out the following week.
Halloween (Aug. 31)
Hostel: Part II (June 8)
Live Free or Die Hard (June 27) - Yippee Kay Yay...
Mr. Bean's Holiday (Aug. 31)
Ocean's Thirteen (June 8) - Getting rid of the stench of Ocean's 12
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (May 25)
Rush Hour 3 (Aug. 10)
Shrek the Third (May 18)
Spiderman 3 (May 4)

Next week we will talk about original movies, such as Mr. Brooks, Stardust, and Transformers.

Spiderman 3:

If you are a fan of the Spiderman comic books, then you will have very little to complain about, in regards to the villian or the modifications to the origins of the black suit and the villians. If however, you are not a comic book fan, then the meteor falling and causing the black suit to appear is confusing.

Back story for the Black Suit: (Skip if you know this)
In the 80's Marvel comics had an event called Secret Wars. All the the Marvel superheroes and villians were taken to space to fight it out with each other by a super powerful being. Spidey's outfit got shredded and he went into a machine that made up what you wished for. Unfortunately it was costume that had a parasite in it that bonded with Spidey. There had to be some concessions to the black suit origin, and this was for the introduction of the meteor in the park that had the creature that was the black suit and later caused Eddie
Brock to become Venom.

All the villians origins have been updated to the year 2007 and that had to happen. Comics update there heroes all the time or most would have aged until they were senile. Sandman looked exactly like in the comics and the effects were unbelievable. I can't wait until he comes back in Spiderman 4 or 5 or 6. Well you get the point. Thomas Hayden Church packed on the muscle and made you care about a killer. This only juxtaposed with the Black suited Spidey and the new Goblin.

The black suit came right from the comics and even the way Peter fought it off fit the marvel universe comic book version. My only regret is the introduction of Venom so early. Sandman and Goblin would have been enough (See Batman movies for the problem of using too many villians - they all get short thrift). Peter could have fought the black suit and thrown it off in the church where it could have crawled away. Then the after credit scene could have been when it latched onto Eddie. This would have set up the next movie and made for more focus on the origins of the parasite. Dr. Connors could have been more involved since we are still waiting for him to be the lizard.

All in all a fantastic movie for all action movie fans and comic movie fans to see. This is the classic definition of a popcorn movie and the only thing missing was Jessica Alba.