Well, Spidey has jumped the shark. Not a hard thing for a superhero to do, really. I can even point to the exact moment when the jump was completed: the brief appearance of an American flag at the start of the final battle.
Not that I have anything against American flags; they're a fine, proud symbol. This Sunday afternoon, actually, the flag was a running theme. We saw many fluttering in downtown San Francisco, and I regularly enjoy taking pictures of them framed against a clear blue sky. And then at the SF moma we saw Jasper John's beautiful, intriguing, literalistic-but-not-quite-so painting, American Flag. So we had nothing against it.
But the context in which it was used suggests one of two things: a craven attempt to appeal to the patriotism of the US audience, or a weak and ineffective attempt at satire. I guess it's too much to expect of your multimillion-dollar summer flick to get these things right?
The special effects were quite good - kudos to them. But the script, and the pacing, and the directing, and some of the acting, were not quite up to par. The French maitre'd was the best thing in the movie!
The movie was too long, and had one villian too many. It is also presumably the most expensive movie ever made?
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