Ok everybody, here comes the first official WW movie review. For those of you who don't know, I am what is called a "True Believer" or a "Spidey Phile," so 'ol Webhead is very near and dear to me. Naturally, I was hyped for the latest installment of the movies.

Now, I knew going into this film that they were planning to detract from the books more than the previous two movies, which I thought was fine. There's really no way to cram the comic-book version of the symbiote's background into a movie. What I did have a problem with, however, was the fact that many of the liberties they took with the characters simply had no point. For instance, they decided to make the Sandman Ben Parker's actual killer, but why? It didn't really add anything, and didn't really set anything up plot-wise, so what was the point? It was just kind of there. The same holds for the Gwen Stacy character. She was barely even similar to the comic book character, but the important thing is the fact that she wasn't even a very significant character in the movie. So why are you going to bring in someone like Gwen Stacy, and not have her do anything? It might as well have just been someone else.

My next criticism is the fact that I felt they tried to cram too much stuff into one film. After you put in the symbiote, Eddie, Brock, Gwen, Harry Osborn and the Sandman, not a single one of them can be focused on very much. This was a major downfall, because there were so many cool characters, but there was just not enough time to go into great detail with any of them. I mean you could make another trilogy out of the symbiote saga, let alone one film.

As far as the acting quality goes, I'd say it was good. The thing you have to realize about Peter Parker is the fact that he is a regular kid that given totally rad powers he actually uses them for good instead of evil. I think Tobey Maguire really makes this believable. Eric Foreman also did a great job acting, but he didn't act like Eddie Brock. He kind of had his own characterization going on there. I also thought Lowell from Wings was good, but he didn't really get to do much because they could only spend about 30 seconds on each of the 50 million characters in the movie.

Visually the movie looks great, I didn't see it on IMAX or anything like that though. Venom look awesome, but I thought he was too small, and the Sandman looked REALLY cool.

Overall 9 out of 10 people would go see this movie and be entertained by it. Despite what I felt were low points I still enjoyed wathcing it, and might go see it again, since nothing is coming out unil Transformers.