With SPIDER-MAN established as a demographic-crossing movie franchise — you don't gross $403 million in the domestic box office by appealing solely to comic-book enthusiasts — director Sam Raimi delivers one for the fans, steeped in the
Spider-Man mythos and filled with casual allusions to vintage story lines and characters. But you don't need to recognize the secondary players destined to become Man-Wolf and The Lizard, or know that Peter Parker's first crisis of spider-faith occurred in a 1967 issue of
The Amazing Spider-Man titled "Spider-Man No More" — the pulpy resonance of those words, which Peter intones with the gravity of a crestfallen priest, ...
Released:
2004
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
127 mins