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SPIDERMAN 3: THE BEST AND THE WORST IN THE TRILOGY?

Nepotism in Hollywood has always been a problem. The most notorious example of this is when Francis Ford Coppola put his daughter, Sophia Coppola into the "Godfather 3", which lead to the worst sequel in the history of the cinema, helped along to that title by Sophia's wooden acting and lack of any charisma whatsoever. Now we have another disaster on a similar scale. The director and writer of both of the earlier Spiderman movies, Sam Raimi, called in another person to help him write "Spiderman 3". Seeing as how that person was his brother, Ivan, who never wrote any movie before in his life, who could have expected that call to turn out well?

The movie starts out strongly enough with Peter Parker (aka Spiderman), played by Tobey Maguire, in a really good mood. He has a jig in his step, his girlfriend, Mary Jane (played by Kirstin Dunst), is getting some Broadway success by singing in a play, and his grades in college could not be better. Things get a little more darker when the film shows that his once best friend, Harry Osburn (James Franco), is still very ticked-off over the fact that Spiderman killed his dad. We see this when Peter goes to the theater to watch MJ's opening night, and Harry is shown spying on Peter with a wicked smile on his face, obviously plotting some diabolical vengeance on Peter. Harry's dad, the Green Goblin, has some left-over homemade bombs that Harry has discovered, and he'd like to use them on Spiderman.

There is another villain on the prowl as well. Flint Marko (Thomas Haden Church), was the person responsible for killing Peter's Uncle Ben, played in the first movie by Cliff Robertson. He is shown escaping prison for another crime he was convicted of, and falling into a testing zone facility that is being used for a molecule dissemination experiment which transfers molecules into sand. The result of the transformation turns him into "Sandman", a new, kinder villain, who only wants to steal money so he can help his dying daughter get the medical attention he could not otherwise afford. The movie turns needlessly sentimental when the Sandman does atrocious things like attacking and killing police officers so he can escape with stolen money, and constantly brings out a small photo of his daughter which he begins to fondle like a love-sick small boy. The cgi effects and action sequences for Sandman are without a doubt the best in the Spiderman series, but the maudlin quality of the scenes,

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