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The Review - AT THE MOVIES with WILLIAM HALL
Published: 3 May 2007

Spider-Man sports a black suit in our super hero’s latest outing

Let’s hear it for the web man

SPIDER-MAN 3.
Directed by Sam Raimi
Certificate 12a

THAT spider has a lot to answer for – biting nerdy teenager Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) when he’s out on a field trip and trying to avoid the school bullies making his life such a misery.
But that bite has turned him into the fearless, wall-climbing hero making the world a safer place for us all, so let’s hear it for the spider!
In this, the best of the trilogy, Spider-Man falls foul of a former college room-mate (James Dean lookalike James Franco) who blames him for the death of his billionaire industrialist father (Willem Dafoe) and he is out for revenge.
Add to this an escaped convict (Thomas Haden Church) who trips head over heels into a laboratory sandpit just as someone announces through a tannoy: “Initiate demolecularisation!” – with inspired results.
He emerges as a giant made of sand – an indestructible villain: if you hit him, your fist goes right through his body.
Not forgetting Spider-Man’s romance with a flame-headed singer (Kirsten Dunst, above) that has turned sour – and the ingredients are there for a top-of-the-range sci-fi comic caper.
Everyone involved – including veterans Cliff Robertson and Rosemary Harris as Peter’s uncle and aunt – play it deadpan while the mayhem explodes around them and the special effects boys have a field day.
In the expert hands of Sam Raimi – who directed the first two – this is pulp fantasy at its best, chock-full of mind-boggling action in a thriller that should carry a health warning for anyone suffering from vertigo.

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