Your friendly neighborhood web-slinger is back, only this time his sunny
outlook has become partially overcast in the third chapter of director Sam
Raimi's Spider-Man saga. Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, and James Franco
return to reprise their roles from the previous two installments, with Thomas
Haden Church, Topher Grace, and Bryce Dallas Howard making their first
appearances in the series as Flint Marko (aka Sandman), Eddie Brock (aka Venom),
and Gwen Stacy. This is a must see!
I waited in line for hours at the theater for the premiere. It was well worth
the wait. If you're a Spider Man fan the third installment won't disappoint.
The cast, graphics, new villians, and loads of spidey action will keep you
mesmerized. Although I felt like my crush Topher Grace should have gotten
more screen time. I would still give it 5 stars and two thumbs up! The plot
involves Peter Parker (Maguire) has finally leaned to walk the middle ground
between being the superhero that his city needs, and the man that Mary Jane
(Dunst) loves.
All is well in New York City until one night, as Peter and M.J.
set gazing at the stars, a falling comet streams across the sky and crashes into
the ground close by. But this isn't any ordinary shooting star, and upon impact
the mysterious space rock is split open to reveal a shape-shifting symbiote
with the power to overtake anything that it comes into contact with.
Later, as Harry Osborn acquires his late father's flying board, engineers a powerful new
Goblin outfit, and takes to the sky to avenge dad's death, the mysterious space
sludge infects both Peter's Spider Man suit and ambitious street photographer Eddie
Brock (Grace). His strange new suit giving him a newfound sense of power as it gradually
overpowers his personality, Peter discovers that escaped convict Flint Marko was in
fact the man responsible for the death of Uncle Ben (Cliff Robertson).
Unluckily
for Peter, Marko has recently acquired the power to morph at will and quickly completes
his transformation into the dreaded Sandman. As the Sandman gives in to his darkest
criminal instincts and the slithering space symbiote transforms Eddie Brock into the
nightmarish fanged villain known as Venom, the citizens of New York City must once again
call on Spider Man to fend off destructive forces that are far too powerful for the likes of
mortal human. Go to the theaters and check this movie out!
