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Spider-Man Trilogy Deluxe Box Set [2007]


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The first Spider-man introduces us to Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire), and covers the genesis of the infamous superhero. Set against Willem Dafoe’s Green Goblin, it’s a deft, impressive and entertaining blockbuster, albeit one that takes a little longer than you’d like to get motoring.

Spider-man 2 is the business, though. This is the one with Alfred Molina’s stunning Doctor Octopus, although he has to share the screen with the title character contending with his dual life, and the effect on his relationship with Mary-Jane (Kirsten Dunst). It could have gone wrong, but it’s so tightly put together that it’s one of the very best blockbusters of recent times.

Spider-man 3, inevitably, can’t quite match the standard set, but you can’t fault it for ambitious. Mixing in Topher Grace as Venom, Thomas Haden Church as Sandman and James Franco as the new Green Goblin, it’s a lot to fit into one film, and that’s what bogs things down. However, when it does hit its stride, Spider-man 3 is a rip-roaring ride in its own right. --Jon Foster


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Synopsis

Features the adventures of the famous webslinger as he battles numerous adversaries in SPIDER-MAN, SPIDER-MAN 2, and SPIDER-MAN 3.
In SPIDER-MAN, high school student Peter Parker gets bitten by a genetically modified spider whilst on a school trip to a University laboratory. Overnight Peter develops supernatural powers and extreme strength. At first he uses his new talents for his own material gain but Peter eventually comes to the conclusion that he must use his new found abilities to fight evil as the super-hero Spider-Man.
In SPIDER-MAN 2, Peter Parker is having problems with his double life as the superhero Spider-Man and as things get worse he decides never to be Spider-Man again. It's only when the scientist Dr Otto Octavius becomes deformed in a freak accident into Dr Octopus that he realises that only Spider-Man can stop him.
In SPIDER-MAN 3, the webbed superhero and his girlfriend, Mary Jane, get embroiled in a love triangle while he is forced to confront a new slate of dastardly villains and a power that changes his very personality.

spidey's most action packed movie to date!
Review date: 2008-08-26 Rating: 10 out of 10

This is one of the best films I have seen in a long, long time. Sitting in my living room on christmas day 2007 watching it for the first time I was blown away. In the first half hour the action is already unfolding. Thomas Haden Church is an excellent new take on the sandman revealing that he's "not a bad person," he's "just had a bad life." Toby maguire is once again flawless, the same goes for James Franco and Kirsten Dunst too. J.K Simmons is once again hillarios as the sadistic editor of the daily bugle. Topher Grace is a brialliant Eddie brock. Harry dies in the end and the whole thing is really quite depressing. All in all a very good third installment.

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It's a bird, it's a plane, it's an aranchoid freak of nature whose also host to an evil alien symbiote parasite?
Review date: 2008-08-14 Rating: 6 out of 10

Spiderman 3 is.. a mess of ideas. Blessed with a surfeit of imagination, and an overdose of effects, it's certainly not a worthy successor to it's predecessors. In this, Spiderman goes dark and moody, flicking peanuts around a Metropolis Bar, and righting the Leaning Tower Of... wait, wrong movie. In Spider Man 3, Spidey gets in touch with his evil side, and fights with himself in a garbage disposal... wait, wrong movie. A church.

At least it hasn't got Richard Pryor in it. However Spider Man 3 does have the frankly impossible "Venom", and the highly improbable "Sandman" (thankfully played as more than a razor thin cipher of evil) as two bad guys who team up through a mutual hatred of Spiderman. Can you guess the ending? On the basis of the fact that there are going to be three more sequels, I think it's easy to suggest that Spiderman doesn't take a dirt nap and meet his maker in this episode. The question isn't Does Good Triumph?, but how and who dies on the way.

Kirsten Dunst meanwhile, seems to spend most of the film as a McGuffin with no personality of her own, leaping from calamity to calamity, improbable moment to impossible danger, and seems to be called on to do no more than sulk and scream. Not content with three bad guys (four if you include Evil Spidey), and Kirsten Dunst, they also shoehorn in a second, pointless love interest, reshoot some of the first movie.. in fact, about the only thing they do do right is provide Bruce Campbell with a delicious cameo that is a highlight of both the movie and his career. How Vin Diesel gets to make movies instead of Bruce I'll never know. This guy chews scenery like a starved dog and overshadows the rest of the picture for the bland stodge it unfortunately is.

Action movies have fallen a long way from their peak. In the eighties, blockbusters were endlessly quotable pieces of dodgy hokum that were formed from the singular vision of some demented genius. There is more memorable talent in one character in any Schwarzenegger movie than in the whole of this crowded, overlong jigsaw of a movie. Spiderman 3, by trying to please all masters, in the end wins none. It's a forgettable piece of popcorn that aims high and fails to hit it's targets.

But it's certainly better than anything you'll see this summer with Steve Martin or Keanu Reeves in it. It's better to aim high and fail than forever stare at the stars with the mediocre.



Spider-Man weak!
Review date: 2008-08-08 Rating: 6 out of 10

tbh i fink evryone knows...this is defintly the weakest of the spider-man films so far!...trying to go down the route they took was a very bad idea!
they tried to put waaay too much into this film and it completely backfired entirly!...but this is from a comic book and spidey fan!

on the other hand, this is still a very gd action film wiv sum of the best spidy action sequences!...its really fun to watch and makes u laugh and gasp!...sooo dnt get me rong its not that bad!

but i guess it should of been waay better.

A great 3rd movie but not as good as the 1 & 2.
Review date: 2008-08-07 Rating: 8 out of 10

I have heard and read so many bad things about this film so I thought it was gonna be terrible, but when I watched it on Sky movies premiere I thought it was good. But not as good as it should've been. It is a very good watch though. The acting is good, the special effects well arn't terrible but when you first see Sandman it just looks like a video game. I think they didn't have enough of venom as I thought Topher Grace was brilliant as Venom and not enough of venom. I do agree that there was a bit too many bad guys and not enough time to tell the story fully of every bad guy. But overall this is a great film not as good as 1 & 2, but still what we have is very good. Ignore the dumbass negative reviews if you like the Spiderman films give this ago.

disjointed and slow
Review date: 2008-08-03 Rating: 6 out of 10

Sam Raimi reinvented the superhero movie with his brilliant Spiderman film and its equally impressive sequel. Can he repeat the magic a third time? Sad to say, Spiderman 3 is a somewhat confused end to the trilogy. Too heavily reliant on CGI, it feels disjointed, moving from action set piece to discussions about the nature of the superhero to Peter's arguments with his girlfriend with little to apparently link them. The inevitable bad guys appear and disappear again for no particular reason, and the result is a bit of a mess.

The lot of the modern superhero is not an easy one. Not only does he have to save the world three times a day, but he has to battle with his psychological motivations, girlfriend trouble and his own personal demons. This time round Spiderman has three villains to contend with, some alien goo which brings out his dark side, and on top of this his relationship's in trouble. Tobey Maguire's geekiness has always grated but he is so pathetic as Peter you just want to shake him. And the sequence where 'bad boy' Peter enjoys his new self- yes, I know it's supposed to be a joke, but I'm afraid it's just risible. Kirsten Dunst does a good job as MJ but she doesn't have the greatest presence, and none of the villains are powerful enough to fill the screen.

That is not to say there aren't good ideas. Raimi's films always look fantastic, and Spidey 3 is no exception. There is at least one interesting idea- how does the superhero keep his ego in check when faced with his adoring fans- but it is quickly forgotten in the rush to the next computer animated set piece. Once again, the girlfriend's main role is as bait for the villain to lure Spider-man to save her- feminism lives! The tame ending left me wishing for the good old days when superheroes turned up, beat up the bad guys and went home without so much as a moment's doubt in their heads.

Still, millions of people love it, and I'm sure this is not the last we've heard of old Spidey. Next time, I hope someone has the guts to give us an old-fashioned superhero flick and leave the psychology at home.


Product Details/Specifications


Artist(s):
Spider-Man

Actor(s):
Tobey Maguire
Kirsten Dunst

Creators:
Tobey Maguire (Primary Contributor)
Kirsten Dunst (Primary Contributor)

Director(s):

Recording label: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
EAN: 5035822650114
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 6
Format: Box set, PAL,
Release date: 2007-10-15
Audience rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 371 minutes
Theatrical release date: 2007-05-01

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