Spider-Man 3, half perfect? Sunk by large dance number?

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From AICN, "The first half is INCREDIBLE. I mean it is perfect. Every moment hits just right, playing every note perfectly. It’s funny. It’s touching. It is unbelievably badass. The origin of the Sandman. The appearance of the Hobgoblin. The rivalry with Eddie Brock. And most importantly, the push for Peter to propose to Mary Jane. Everything works. Everything puts a 10 kilowatt geek smile beaming right across your face. You will light up like a mother fucking Christmas tree and wonder WTF everyone is talking about when they complain about this film. They’re all fucking insane. This movie kicks ass! It’s so good, it takes Neil Cumpston levels of exaggeration to truly capture just how unbelievably, boner-iffic it is.

And then the unthinkable happens. For five minutes – five gut wrenching, heartbreaking minutes – the movie becomes epically awful. I mean terrible. Worst case scenario bad. You see, for two minutes the film suddenly becomes Saturday Night Fever. Peter Parker is dancing in the streets, strutting like a sweat hog, and genuinely making an ass out of himself. It’s funny. For all of seven seconds. Then the movie all of a sudden becomes The Mask Yes, that The Mask. There is this jaw dropping dance number in a club that will blow your fucking mind. In the shotgun sort of way. You won’t believe for a second that you’re watching the same movie.

It’s like having awesome, perfect, mind blowing sex with that girl that moved in next door that you’ve been rubbing off to for the last six months, and just as you’re about to reach that special moment, just as your eyes are about to roll into the back of your head as you cry out, she looks up with those big brown eyes of hers and with her pursed bee stung lips asks “Did you remember to call your mother today?” HUH? WHAT? WHAT THE…? No! No, no! Don’t think about mom, don’t think about mom, don’t think about mom! Stay hard, stay hard, stay hard! But it won’t. The moment’s over. Even as you get back in game mode, it’s never the same. You never quite get as excited as you were before. And for some reason your mind keeps wandering back to that awful moment. Over and over again that image pops into your mind. Mom. THAT’S what the second half of Spider-Man 3 is like.

Because once The Mask sequence is over…the movie resumes as if nothing had happened. But it never regains the momentum that it had before. The second half of the film is GOOD. But never GREAT. Never SOLID. It’s all over the place with a few wonderful moments flanked by some average ones and the occasional WTF moments.

But what really does this film in is exactly what everyone was afraid of. There simply are too many stories converging at once – and none of them feel like they’re properly fleshed out. And only one of them has an ending that is remotely satisfying. Which of course is the one storyline that shouldn’t have ended. It’s the one that should have led into the fourth film.
All in all, Spider-Man 3 is a disappointment, a real let down."