After Spider-Man 3 I can’t say I was excited when they announced another, so the news that Tobey Maguire and Sam Raimi are walking away didn’t stir much, but I have to agree with Stuart Heritage’s summation of the wrongs of Spider-Man 3:
The most convincing argument for the Spider-Man reboot, though, must be Spider-Man 3. Wrong in just about every way imaginable – too long, too many baddies, too many queasy lurches in tone, too many musical numbers, too many emotions signposted by the protagonist’s ever-changing haircut, too many scenes of Kirsten Dunst frying eggs and dancing the twist – Spider-Man 3 has become shorthand for unfocused studio bloat. It was one set of rubber nipples away from being Batman and Robin – and look at what an overhaul did for Batman’s fortunes.
Were they trying to see how far they could go?
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