The 313 Second Movie Review: "Spider-Man 3"

Look who's slinging back into action. It's your friendly neighborhood Republican! Welcome back to The 313 Second Movie Review. Boy, I have I been excited to review this! Here it is everybody, the movie event of the year, "Spider-Man 3." The film stars Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker/Spider-Man, Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane Watson, James Franco as New Goblin/Harry Osborn, Thomas Haden Church as Sandman/Flint Marko, and Topher Grace as Venom/Eddie Brock. I trust I don't need to tell you what happened with the previous "Spider-Man" movies, so let's cut to the chase. Given the hype surrounding this movie, I'll let a few things about the plot go. The movie starts off with Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson, enjoying life together. It seems as though he's going to propse to MJ, but Peter finds himself conflicted by the lovely Gwen Stacy. On top of that, Peter finds his ego growing, both him and Spider-Man doing things you can't expect from them. Of course, when intergalactic space sludge takes your body over, your cockiness will increase tenfold, too. On top of that, villians galore raid the screen. Harry Osborn finally listens to his father in hallucinations and emerges as the New Goblin. Then there's Flint Marko, a career criminal who escaped Rikers for his role in the murder of Uncle Ben Parker. Running from the law, he winds up in a particle-seperation expirament and turns into the dangerous and evasive Sandman, who's body can shift his shape into a pile of sand or turn his body into a dangerous sand-made weapon. Bar none the most evil of the villians is Eddie Brock, Jr. As he loses everything, from a photography job to Gwen, to Peter, his jealousness of Peter grows. As Peter sees the change in personality affecting everybody he loves, including MJ and Aunt May, he rips off the sludge suit that has been affecting his decisions, only for it drop on top of Brock, turning him into the murderous Venom. Many people may complain about the many plotlines, but this movie further increases my love of the genius that is Sam Raimi. He keeps the plots simple enough to follow, and not too complex that it would confuse the viewer. Geez, some people have the attention span of a Chihuahua on Ecstacy. He kept it funny at the right moments. Enjoy the French restaurant maitre d'. Awesomely funny. The SFX are so mesmerizing, you could swear they're real. The fight scenes are amazing, with the one with Peter and Harry fighting as their mortal selfs just barely being paled to the final showdown with Spider-Man, Mary Jane, Goblin, Sandman, and Venom. Maguire, Dunst, and Franco mesh so well together, they prove that they are very used to each other on-screen and off. In the end, the most important part of the movie is the emotion. It is so raw, that you cannot help but make a connection to the characters. You even feel the good within Goblin and Sandman. You just want the characters to do the right thing and hope they all accomplish their goals. I wouldn't be surprised this movie makes almost half of its $285 million budget this weekend. Listen to me. Give in to peer pressure. Go see this movie. You'll enjoy it.

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