The thing that got me was that the first two Spiderman movies were about a common man/kid who couldn't fit in no matter what he did. The character was relateable to most, if not everyone who watched. This one put Parker on a pedistal and took away that magic connection that was there for the first two.
By taking that away, and trying to mash 16 different storylines, this movie lost me.
I'm of the 'Venom was awesome, but under utilized' camp. Who better to introduce to a storyline where the main character has self worth issues? Someone who knows everything about him, and can use that against him. Venom could have been the focus of this movie, but was far from it.
The wedding/harry/emo clusterpoop was horrible. In the comics and in the cartoons, when Parker aquires the symbiote, he has an edge, a coolness factor. Not in his mind, but in reality. I thought they dropped the ball trying to explain this part. Emo was not the way to go, and neither was the Monty Python-esk/Staying Alive sequence. Horrible.
And they had J. Jonah Jamieson's son in the 2nd one... why couldn't he have brought the symbiote back instead of the random metiorite. And since when did the Sandman fly?
I think they could have split up the four main storylines. MJ/Sandman and Harry/Venom. Venom deserved more than 20 minutes of the movie IMO. And the audience needs to relate to Parker, and I found that tough considering every 5 minutes he was feeling a different emotion in a different situation. It's like his emotions were working on the Calgary weather system.
Is it worth while to go and see. Sure. It was entertaining at points. You could always laugh at the Claire Daines - Romeo and Juliet death scene cry fest. I sure did. But it doesn't deserve to be put on the same map as the other two.
Better rental I'd say.
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