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because of the dying daughter scenario, keeps you from despising and fearing Sandman, which is what having a villain in the movie is supposed to make the viewer feel, anger and rage against him, not sympathy for his plight.

The setup for the next villain, Venom/Eddie Brock (Topher Grace), could not take longer getting to the main villainous action if it tried. A meteor falls to the earth in the vicinity of Peter and MJ when they are in a make-out session, and a parasitic entity, a kind of black, gooey substance, attaches itself to the back of Peter's bike and afterwords becomes part of one of the Spiderman costumes in Peter's closet. It causes the costume to turn from red to black, and when Peter puts it on, it makes him become a very different kind of Spiderman, an anti-hero, if you will. It enhances his strength, but also makes him extremely aggressive against anybody even looking at him in the wrong way. He gets into barroom brawls with strangers, and into fights with MJ wearing the suit, and he eventually realizes it is overtaking him in the worst way. He decides to get rid of the suit and the black parasite in a nearby church steeple, and guess who is directly under him, looking up into the belfry when Peter is throwing off the parasite? You guessed it, Eddie Brock, who just happens to be in the exact same church Peter went into when he was trying to escape police. When the parasite lands on Eddie, he relishes the power that it brings him, and swears revenge on Spiderman for making him look foolish at the newspaper's offices that they both work for. This all makes the movie drag on far too long for any decent comic book movie, and most movie theater audiences should be getting tired of all the various villain set-ups right about now.

Meanwhile, the romance between Peter and MJ is going down the tubes because of yet another needless character, Gwen Stacy (Bryce Dallas-Howard), who makes MJ very jealous after a long kiss with Spiderman makes newspaper headlines. Gwen's actions feel tacked-on by the writers to satisfy a fan-boy request for another female in the series who exudes more sexuality than MJ ever could. Gwen provides nothing more than eye candy for the movie, and Dallas-Howard's acting abilities are never utilized to the fullest extent. The jealousy of Harry against the Peter/MJ pairing also makes the romance take a bad turn, but the intense action of Spiderman 3 takes a backseat to all the ridiculous romantic goings-on. Most of the hand-to-hand

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