I saw it last night, and though there were aspects that I liked, I felt that they tried to cram way too much into it, and the movie suffered for being sort of disjointed. There was no reason for Gwen Stacy to be there; she added nothing to the film. Likewise for the Sandman's daughter (who never even got a resolution to her problem!), and even for Venom, who seemed shoehorned in as an afterthought. I think the movie would've been much better served by having Sandman as the main villain, while introducing Eddie Brock and the symbiote, as a lead-in to a fourth film in which Venom could've been the main antagonist.

And then there was Harry... I saw no point to his amnesia. It did nothing for his story. He could've just as easily been evil the whole time and changed his mind at the end, much as he did after regaining his memory. It wouldn't have changed much, and might even have made his redemption better since it wouldn't have been influenced by his brief reversion to his first-movie personality.

All that aside, though, I loved the action scenes. The Sandman effects were unbelievable, and Venom did look really cool. J.K. Simmons, as always, is J. Jonah Jameson, there's no denying that. He was fantastic in all his scenes. Topher Grace was also hilarious early in the movie before he took his dark turn. Plus, I love James Cromwell in anything, so it was nice seeing him as Captain Stacy here. I wish he'd had more screen time.

But like TG's son, I was disappointed that Peter kept fighting without his costume. I'm really just a big kid at heart, and I wanna see Spider-Man fight the bad guys, not the dorky Tobey Maguire! And on a related note, why, in every movie, must Spidey lose his frikkin' mask in the big final battle?!? It's really annoying!

Anyway, that's my two cents.

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