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GreenCine Daily: Spider-Man 3 and the previews of summer.
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April 30, 2007
Spider-Man 3 and the previews of summer.
And so, the long hot summer begins: "Spider-Man 3 is the latest quasi-religious comic-book superhero epic to demonstrate that with extreme power comes extreme spiritual torment, that there are grave psychological dangers when the mask (in the Pirandellian sense) supplants the face, and that the practice of throwing around insane amounts of cash while getting absurdly rich off 'tent-pole' studio franchises can make even an ecstatic horror maven like Sam Raimi a little flabby," writes David Edelstein.
"The movie isn't a dud: It has exuberant bits and breathtaking (money money money) effects.
But it's supposed to be fun and inspirational, and it's too leaden for liftoff."
Also in New York, Logan Hill gets to the gist of five summer offerings.
"If Spider-Man 3 is a shambles, that's because it makes the rules up as it goes along," argues Anthony Lane in the New Yorker.
The problem here is "not that it's running out of ideas, or lifting them too slavishly from the original comic, but that it lunges at them with an infantile lack of grace, throwing money at one special effect after another and praying - or calculating - that some of them will fly."
David Poland sorts through the movies and the studios and predicts the winners and losers of Summer 07.
Meanwhile, Movie City News has its chart ready.
More summer previews: Philip French picks...
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