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Spider-Man 3 [Blu-ray] [2007] | ![Spider-Man 3 [Blu-ray] [2007]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51fKWwFoplL._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: Sam Raimi
Actors: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Thomas Haden Church, Topher Grace
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  180 reviews
Sales Rank: 4210
Format: Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 0
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 133 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.2 x 0.6
EAN: 5050629495416
ASIN: B000TCSWA4
Theatrical Release Date: May 1, 2007
Release Date: October 15, 2007
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Condition: Good condition
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How does Spider-Man 3 follow on the heels of its predecessor, which was widely considered the best superhero movie ever? For starters, you pick up the loose threads from that movie, then add some key elements of the Spidey comic-book mythos (including fan-favorite villain Venom), the black costume, and the characters of Gwen Stacy and her police-captain father. In the beginning, things have never looked better for Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire): He's doing well in school; his alter ego, Spider-Man, is loved and respected around New York City. And his girlfriend, Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst), has just taken a starring role in a Broadway musical. But nothing good can last for Spidey. Mary Jane's career quickly goes downhill; she's bothered by Peter's attractive new classmate, Gwen Stacy (Bryce Dallas Howard); and the new Daily Bugle photographer, Eddie Brock (Topher Grace), is trying to steal his thunder. Enter a new villain, the Sandman (Thomas Haden Church), who can transform his body into various forms and shapes of sand and who may be connected to Peter's past in an unexpected way. There's also the son of an old villain, Harry Osborne (James Franco), who unmasked Spidey in the previous movie and still has revenge on his mind. And a new black costume seems to boost Spidey's powers, but transforms mild-mannered Peter into a mean and obnoxious boor (Maguire has some fun here). If that sounds like a lot to pack into one 140-minute film, it is. While director Sam Raimi keeps things flowing, assisted on the screenplay by his brother Ivan and Alvin Sargent, there's a little too much going on, and it's inevitable that one of the villains (there are three or four, depending on how you count) gets significantly short-changed. Still, the cast is excellent, the effects are fantastic, and the action is fast and furious. Even if Spider-Man 3 isn't the match of Spider-Man 2, it's a worthy addition to the megamillion-dollar franchise. --David Horiuchi
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Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Thomas Haden Church
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 MUCH better the second time round! September 9, 2008
Marlyly (London - UK)
When I first saw this film in the cinema I was dissapointed as were many fans, the latest instalment of the Spider-Man films just didn't live up to the two previous ones, and that was saying something as I didn't even like the 2nd film! But I watched this again last night, over a year from when I saw it orignally and have to say - it's a pretty darn good film!
All the faults I found with it initially seemed to vanish - the 'emo bad boy Peter' scene was cringey, but made me laugh out loud rather than hang my head with embaressment. There were too many bad guys in this film, but the Sandman was no longer a boring side plot leading up to the fight with Venom that was all that most fans seemed interested in - it was an interesting story in it's own right (though still with it's plot-holes - how did the locket survive when everything else was obliterated?!). Happy Peter Parker at the beginning too wasn't just a weird turn in the story either - it made sense, fit in with the rest of the plot, with MJ and Peter's arguments, it all linked in together and was for the greater good of teh story. Overall, it was such an improvement it felt like an entirely different film, though of course it wasn't - my expectations were just a lot lower.
I've always thought the chemistry between the main three friends, MJ, Harry and Peter, was fantastic when they were all together. James Franco (Harry Osborn) and Kirsten Dunst (Mary Jane Watson) especially seem to have a genuine chemistry which shines through the screen. However, scenes alone between Dunst and Maguire felt awkward and forced - I'm not sure whether it was purely in this film that this has happened or whether it was the same in previous films but I just hadn't noticed, but considering they are the main couple of the films it is surprising and definatley something to work on for future Spider-Man productions.
Finally, the last 40 minutes or so of the films - the final battle - is probably one of my favourite movie endings ever - I won't say anything that may spoil it but it's definate eye candy and will have you on the edge of your seat, even if like me you've already seen it once before.
 spidey's most action packed movie to date! August 26, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is one of the best films I have seen in a long, long time. Sitting in my living room on christmas day 2007 watching it for the first time I was blown away. In the first half hour the action is already unfolding. Thomas Haden Church is an excellent new take on the sandman revealing that he's "not a bad person," he's "just had a bad life." Toby maguire is once again flawless, the same goes for James Franco and Kirsten Dunst too. J.K Simmons is once again hillarios as the sadistic editor of the daily bugle. Topher Grace is a brialliant Eddie brock. Harry dies in the end and the whole thing is really quite depressing. All in all a very good third installment.
 It's a bird, it's a plane, it's an aranchoid freak of nature whose also host to an evil alien symbiote parasite? August 14, 2008
Mr. M. A. Reed (Somewhere, GB)
Spiderman 3 is.. a mess of ideas. Blessed with a surfeit of imagination, and an overdose of effects, it's certainly not a worthy successor to it's predecessors. In this, Spiderman goes dark and moody, flicking peanuts around a Metropolis Bar, and righting the Leaning Tower Of... wait, wrong movie. In Spider Man 3, Spidey gets in touch with his evil side, and fights with himself in a garbage disposal... wait, wrong movie. A church.
At least it hasn't got Richard Pryor in it. However Spider Man 3 does have the frankly impossible "Venom", and the highly improbable "Sandman" (thankfully played as more than a razor thin cipher of evil) as two bad guys who team up through a mutual hatred of Spiderman. Can you guess the ending? On the basis of the fact that there are going to be three more sequels, I think it's easy to suggest that Spiderman doesn't take a dirt nap and meet his maker in this episode. The question isn't Does Good Triumph?, but how and who dies on the way.
Kirsten Dunst meanwhile, seems to spend most of the film as a McGuffin with no personality of her own, leaping from calamity to calamity, improbable moment to impossible danger, and seems to be called on to do no more than sulk and scream. Not content with three bad guys (four if you include Evil Spidey), and Kirsten Dunst, they also shoehorn in a second, pointless love interest, reshoot some of the first movie.. in fact, about the only thing they do do right is provide Bruce Campbell with a delicious cameo that is a highlight of both the movie and his career. How Vin Diesel gets to make movies instead of Bruce I'll never know. This guy chews scenery like a starved dog and overshadows the rest of the picture for the bland stodge it unfortunately is.
Action movies have fallen a long way from their peak. In the eighties, blockbusters were endlessly quotable pieces of dodgy hokum that were formed from the singular vision of some demented genius. There is more memorable talent in one character in any Schwarzenegger movie than in the whole of this crowded, overlong jigsaw of a movie. Spiderman 3, by trying to please all masters, in the end wins none. It's a forgettable piece of popcorn that aims high and fails to hit it's targets.
But it's certainly better than anything you'll see this summer with Steve Martin or Keanu Reeves in it. It's better to aim high and fail than forever stare at the stars with the mediocre.
Spider-Man weak! August 8, 2008
Ne0 Ven0m (London, England)
tbh i fink evryone knows...this is defintly the weakest of the spider-man films so far!...trying to go down the route they took was a very bad idea!
they tried to put waaay too much into this film and it completely backfired entirly!...but this is from a comic book and spidey fan!
on the other hand, this is still a very gd action film wiv sum of the best spidy action sequences!...its really fun to watch and makes u laugh and gasp!...sooo dnt get me rong its not that bad!
but i guess it should of been waay better.
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