Spider-Man 3: A Movie Review

Warning: This review contains spoilers that relate to important parts of the plot of the movie.

I haven't been much into anything related to Spider-Man since I was young, but regardless of this the amazing effects they achieved in the first two Spider-Man movies compelled me to go and see the third one, if nothing else but to get some closure to the series of events it had weaved. For the most part, I thought Spider-Man 3 was a nice conclusion with relation to what the previous two had established. There were a few portions of it, however, that left me a little baffled and sometimes scratching my head wondering how the heck that happened.

Starting first with the parts that confused me, Peter Parker's entire attempt at the Emo-boy look and life was laughable to the point of utter confusion. I understand being depressed, angry, letting it seep into your morals and whatnot, but his entire reaction of dying his hair and acting like a hot shot just confused me beyond comprehension. Admittedly, it was flat out hilarious to see him sing and dance like that in an attempt to make Mary Jane jealous, but everything else related to this temporary state he falls into kind of threw me into a loop. As violent and angry as Harry was at him, it seemed a little out of character for Peter to whip a grenade right back at him and nearly kill him. It seems like Peter goes through the movie feeling hurt that people just don't understand, but in reality he never fully explained to Harry what happened with his father or anything that could have cleared the tensions between them. True he did try at times, but he seemed kind of cold towards Harry's feelings. In Harry's eyes, Peter was the one who killed his father regardless of the factors leading up to it, and Peter doesn't seem to quite understand how much this effected Harry until he's lost someone he cares about too and ends up in the same violent state. In this respect, I see it as a nice touch of irony for the movie, but I think that sometimes Peter's character has some contradictions in itself.