Two's company, three's trying too hard.

Two's company, three's trying too hard.

We got to watch Spider-Man 3 after work tonight.

While this sequel is all whiz-bang effects and offers a nice twist to old Spider-Man favorites like Gwen Stacy and Eddie Brock/Venom, I can't help feeling Spider-Man 2 was better.

It was the more cohesive film plot-wise. "Two" never pretended to be anything else but a growth spurt for Peter Parker, right up to the flickers of the final scene. You can feel the scriptwriters ran out of ideas trying to cram all these elements together for a fitting finale to the Spidey trilogy, and the end result wasn't as clean nor as definitive as I hoped.

It's unfortunate that the Mary Jane-Peter relationship was a travesty here when it was the reason why Spider-Man 2 was so good.

A shame. Oh well.