Review of Spider-Man (2002) by Ydnar4 — 19 May 2015

The first Spiderman movie is one of the films that paved the way for the super hero films we see today. There would be no Marvel Universe without this trilogy of films and the X-Men series. This film gets the origin story right, it does not drag it out and the film becomes fairly action packed after we find out the story behind Spiderman.

Tobey Maguire is great as Spiderman and Peter Parker and I think he has gotten a lot of undeserved hate since the series was rebooted. As soon as you watch this film you member how good he was and it is difficult to say that Andrew Garfield is more suited to play Spidey.

Willem Dafoe also plays an excellent Green Goblin, I thought his performance was great although like in most origin movies the Green Goblin doesn't always pose a threat. Spiderman paved the way for an excellent sequel that is probably better than the original film.