My only gripe was with the Green Goblin's costume. Jameson hit the mark, the snarling facial contortions of Willem Defoe were suitably evil-looking (and the conversation with his mirror-image was a great touch). There are few of the painful cliches or dreadful dialogue that plague films like The Phantom Menace and the catchphrases like 'friendly neighbourhood spider-man' are fully in-keeping with the character.

The effects do look artificial but the pace of the movie means you don't have time to dwell on this and the script is fine! What do people want, Shakespearian soliloquies? That would sound incredibly out-of-place in modern day New York. The acting is generally great - there is never a time when anyone is not believable as their character and you think 'Hey, that's an actor, not Peter Parker'. But if you go into Spider-man without this prejudicial attitude you'll be pleasently suprised. People seem to automatically comment that the script and acting was bad because they expect it to be the case in these films and indeed it usually is.

As it turns out, this is probably the best super-hero film I've yet seen - certainly up there with Superman and Batman. Thankfully I was wrong on most counts (The Goblin still looks rubbish).

The computer effects looked badly integrated, the Green Goblin's costume looked awful and comic book adaptations usually have such painful scripting and plotting. Having seen the trailers for this film I have to say that I didn't walk into the cinema with high hopes.

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