- Cast – Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Topher Grace
- Director – Sam Raimi
- Writers – Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi, Alvin Sargent
- Budget – $258–350 million
- Hit/Flop – Hit
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SPIDER-MAN 3: Journalists and academics love to defend comic-book superheroes. These heroes emerged in the Depression era to give power to the helpless. They battled seemingly invincible enemies in horrific hot and cold wars. And they fight today for justice in a world immersed in malice, disorder and corruption. But the reason for their persistence is probably more basic. Kids get caught up simply in the sure, clear, delightful triumph of pure good over pure evil.
Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire), the alter ego of Spider-Man, is an orphan and a nonathletic, brainy, picked-on high school outsider. He’s in impossibly shy love with Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst), the girl next door. Peter is an Everykid with a superhero fantasy that (thanks to an exotic spider bite) becomes real. So he’s not just a symbolic representation of the Good in the universe. He’s also really us, emerging from teenage doubt and frustration into the fullness of manhood. In the process, he also retains his regular-guy, plain-and-simple niceness. This Marvel comic-book guy is a role model-and-a-half. Otherwise, this movie, directed by Sam Raimi (A Simple Plan, For Love of the Game) from a script by David Koepp (Jurassic Park), is familiar superhero do-gooding cinematics, intended for thrills and laughs, but not likely to thrill grown-ups very much. The best (and most original) part is Peter (the boyish, quirky Maguire is a magical bit of casting) discovering his unique powers, like walking up walls, swinging joyously over roofs and Manhattan skyscrapers, and moving with agile quickness that would bankrupt the NBA.
The enemy in this first of undoubtedly many Spider-Man films is a mad capitalist (Willem Dafoe) whose greed prompts him to take a risky drug that turns him into an evil supermonster, the Green Goblin. He is likely to scare little kids with his face and cackling. But he’s sophisticated enough to tempt Peter to the dark side by telling him a partial truth about people and heroes: “One thing they love better than heroes is to see them fail. Eventually, they will hate you despite everything you’ve done for them.” The other part of the truth is that life without heroes is unbearable. Just your friendly neighbourhood superguy; intense genre action, violence and destruction; PG-13 rating seems right.
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