Spider-Man 3 Review: Maybe Tobey Maguire Was Never the Problem
Spider-Man 3 promotional artwork © 2007 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. Used here for purposes of review and commentary. I have spent most of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy thinking that one of my problems was Tobey Maguire. Spider-Man 3 made me reconsider that. I still do not particularly like this version of Peter Parker, but the black-suit storyline makes it much easier to see how deliberately Maguire has been playing him all along. That was the biggest surprise when rewatching the film almost two decades after its 2007 release. Neither I nor the kids could quite decide whether it is better or worse than Spider-Man 2 . The second film is more coherent, but the third sometimes does more interesting things with Peter himself. Unfortunately, those things are buried inside a movie that seems determined to tell four or five stories at once. Spider-Man 3 Has Too Much Spider-Man 3 Peter begins the film in an unusually good place. New York has embraced Spider-...