Okay, first I'll start with what's bad about this film...

Now that that's over with, Spidey finally hit the big screen and is leaving webbing all over the place. A minor change or two from the source, like the web shooters being a biological outgrowqth (how's he suposed to alter his web formule to match difficult opponents?), and we all know the origin story backwards and forwards, but tht doesn't detract from this movie one bit. It's just plain great.

Spidey in all his classic moves, jumps, crouches, thread-hanging, and all with the camera following along with him. J. Jonna Jameson seems to have just leapt out of comics and cartoon and made himself 3-D, and the Goblin, well he's as insane as ever. Everything that is Spidey is there.

The only gripe I have isn't really about th movie. The end credits squeeze in five minutes of some trash rock stuff designed solely fto justify the making of a 20 track "inspired by" Spiderman soundtrack, only 2 tracks of which are from Danny Elfman's score. So while the movie and actual soundtrack get an 'A', the CD get's an 'F'. The end credits are worth staying through, however, as after the trash rock stuff they squeeze in the complete original theme song from the very first Spiderman animated series which had those of us kids that were around for it first-run quietly singing along with it.

Altogether now... "Spiderman, spiderman, does whatever a spider can..."