I saw this movie before reading any reviews, and I thought it was very funny. I was very surprised to see the overwhelmingly negative reviews this film received from critics.

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

This series was awful, but it's Spider-Man so I had to give it some stars. As a huge Spider-Man fan, I wanted this series to work, but it just didn't quite become what it should have. Things like his spider-sense telling him there's a bomb on the car instead of just warning him of danger. They couldn't even get that right. Yes, it's just wrong when they can't even get the character or his basic powers right. The show has quite the cast (the best by far being Michael Clarke Duncan as the Kingpin, reprising his role from the live action Daredevil), but so much of the casting and voice acting feels way off. The story lines want to be original, but in so many ways they could have been fill-in-the-superhero stories, not Spider-Man stories. They are often college stories and villains with only a few Spider-Man villains appearing, which is sad considering there were 13 episodes. Spider-Man of the 90's was great, and Spectacular Spider-Man was fantastic (though the Sony DVD releases are a Sony rip-off giving 3 episodes for $20). This Spider-Man was an weak attempt: they added nothing to the Spider- Man mythos, had no stories that grabbed me, the swearing geared the series to teens but there was still had no real intelligence to the stories. It wasn't just weak or a wannabe series, it was stale. Very very stale and disappointing. At times it felt like they had weak stories already written, and threw Spider-Man in just to make them more interesting...

Out of all the Spider-Man cartoons, I think this one can be noted as being the darkest. It has plenty of death and plenty of swearing. It's almost seems like it's trying to be the best of the Spidey cartoons, unfortunately it's not. One problem is the voice actors. Surprisingly there not as good as the voice actors in the 1994 or 2008 series. There not terrible, but they never sound to convincing. Another downfall to this show, in my opinion, is the fact that there are not many Comic book villains. In fact there are only 5. But I will give them credit that this show probably has the best depiction of my favorite villain, The Lizard. The actually really get him right in this show. The animation in this show is probably better that the animation in all of the other Spider-Man cartoons. This animation is so great to look at. In the end, if you can find the DVD's or episodes on YouTube, check them out. Because this is a decent series.

Saw an episode of this show on a Dutch TV channel and I was very disappointed.The thing I disliked most was the animation. I think the animators tried to go for a special art award because it is very different but not in a good way. The show is really dark and I am not fond of that look.Even then the characters look bad. Peter is tolerable but I have never seen a blonde Harry Osborn in any comic or previous TV show and it just looks plain bad. Especially as he does not have blonde hair in the movie.Mary Jane's short hair makes no sense either as she never had it in any previous show or the comics. If the animation prevents it then have it in a bun or something. That way it would have been more accurate.The faces lacked emotions and they seemed rather lifeless to me.The voice acting did not help. Spidey only wise-cracked once (I think) but it came out in a way that did not even make it funny. In cartoons voice acting can make or break them but in this case it is definitely break.Since the series ties in to the movies, there are not many famous villains making it less cool than the 1994-1998 series. Some might say that this show recycled a lot of old Spider-Man story lines.True but that is why I liked it so much. I am not liking this show at all. I actually saw it on DVD but I am glad I did not buy it.

Truly the BEST ever incarnation of Spiderman and the best animated show EVER!!! Compared to previous animated Spidey's this was bold move, taking it in new, more mature and realistic directions. The 60's and 90's shows seem tame and childish in comparison.Taking place after the Spider-Man movie this show revolves around the college adventures of Peter, Mary-Jane and Harry who have much better chemistry, character and dialogue than the movie ever offered. Each episode provides more drama and development and creativity. The stories are very imaginative and are obviously written by people who are passionate about Spiderman rather than a studio hashing a product together. The computer animation is superb and resembles The Ultimate Spiderman comic book (my fave) more than anything. And I know Mary-Jane is only a CGI character but she is so beautiful, and she's voiced by the equally gorgeous Lisa Loeb. Neil Patrick Harris is the voice of Peter Parker and even in this performance he is a hundred times better than Tobey Maguire. The show also offers some new, interesting characters like Indy, Cheyenne and Silver Sable and gives us alternate takes on Electro and Kraven. Though I was curious as to why Aunt May was not involved.There is plenty of action and excitement to be had in every episode, all backed up to great music, MAN IS THAT THEME TUNE AWESOME! Where is the soundtrack CD?The show could not have asked for a better DVD presentation. Not only do we get an absolutely stunning 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen presentation but a thumpingly good, totally engaging DTS 5.1 soundtrack too. Each episode is a 22-minute movie that is far superior to anything the live-action effort was. There are also an abundance of extras on this 2-disc set, some interesting, some not. But a seriously good package for a great show. You must buy! Fan or no fan of Spidey this DVD is too good to be without.