Lisa's Spider-Man 3 Experience

Today I finally went to see Spider-Man 3. After stashing a supply of expressed breastmilk in the fridge, I left Graeme to look after Francis and went to my first solo cinematic experience.

I'd prepared myself in advance for the possibility that Spider-Man's latest installment would be crap. Graeme went to see it a couple of weeks ago courtesy of his employers Sony and some of his colleagues had expressed their disappointment with it. I'd heard it was cheesy and cliched and a review on Rob's website was positively scathing. However, I'm not one to be easily disappointed when it comes to films about Superheroes - it would take a pretty serious piece of detritus to make me want my money back. (Think Batman & Robin - that was one dreadful film.)

In the end, Spider-man 3 turned out to be nowhere near as bad as I'd feared. I actually found it pretty good fun; the £5.50 I'd shelled out for a small popcorn and regular Pepsi almost seemed worth it. Yes, it was cheesy and cliched, but then superhero films generally are, and I thought this had significantly less cheese than the recent Superman Returns, which I really loved. Spider-Man 3 was surprisingly dark in parts, even on the verge of being depressing, and the level of violence allowed in 12A films will never cease to amaze me. The story was not as strong as in the previous films, but there were great villains (I actually found The Sandman quite scary), fantastic special effects and plenty of humour. My one criticism would be that they tried too cram too much into one film, but everything they did cram in was good stuff so I shall forgive Sam Raimi for that. All in all, it may not have been Ocsar-worthy, but it was certainly entertaining and will no doubt be a nice addition to my DVD collection in a few months time. Heck, I might even splash out and buy the Blu-Ray.

Lisa xxx