Those who grew up on the '90s Spider or the original comics shouldn't have accepted the pathetic substitution of this hero imposed on them. Maguire was good in the film “Pleasantville”, where he was assigned a role to become a character – a weakling and a quiet person. He had nothing to do in the role of Spider.
This part was shot as if hastily, it has a huge number of absurdities, besides it is very not rich in action, Spider in the frame is not really waiting, Parker in human form whines, digs into herself, goes to visit her grandmother and ten times changes the decision to be him with Mary Jane or not to be, while she manages to meet ALL the guys that are in the frame, including Flash Thompson and Jameson Jr., with whom she never had any relationship. In this trilogy, she was just made a shabbald. And I don't know why.
In this film there is one of the worst and dumbest scenes in the entire superhero genre: the Octopus, being a pussy middle-aged uncle, jumps around the skyscraper aki King Kong, evoking the corresponding reaction of frightened fools from the 1930s, juggles a grandmother who looks like a classic Russian woman Glasha in a headscarf and who for some reason does not die of heartbreak... And in general, there is a fight on a steep wall... Well, it's just the level where the director frankly mocks the viewer. Will a mass fool swallow it or not? Swallowed.
It's not a real movie, you know? It's fan fiction with artificially stuffed, embellished, slick drama in shades of "Amelie." Like the first part, this is just a remake of one of the series of the animated series of the 90s, only here specially stretched, pressed a tear, embellished, sweetened. How was the cartoon? The octopus was obsessed with his work, built his Satan-machine, it was dangerous, but not so much, Spider did not let it run in full force, she neutralized the scientist and sent to the bars. There was no need for any additional emotions, the villain normally revealed with this luggage, he no longer needs. And then look, oh, oh, what are they doing, and he had a wife, whom he loved very much, and in her so dramatic a fragment shimmering in flight! And the tentacles are talking to him! And his car is already a star! You have to give your life for redemption! Well, it's not real, it's fake, it's a sweet fairy tale for girls.
And by the way, about the car. The scene is like a fucking star drowning in the river - well, that's a joke. Did the director even realize that the star was very hot and the water there had to boil so that the whole river would evaporate? Yes, this thing already in this phase of work would incinerate the city, burn the earth and go somewhere in the earthly mantle. No, he's got a star in cold water bloop and everything's fine. It's just awful. A weak-minded film.
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