Spider-Man Trilogy

Over the decades many of the stories and characters that we all grew up with from the comic strips and comic books have been turned into movies, television and cartoon series. There have been only a handful of successes compared to the number of failures, and with each generation of filmmakers we get an array of offerings to expand the universe of the super heroes. After years of battling over the rights to the project, simply known as Spider-Man, Sony and Columbia Pictures won and found their director in Sam Raimi. Then once the cast was gathered together, which included Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst, movie magic and movie history was about to be made.
Spider-Man - After being bitten by a genetically altered spider, Peter Parker develops strange abilities and must battle against the Green Goblin before he destroys the city. This movie is so much like the comic books its amazing, the feel of the scenes, the likeability of the characters, and the humor that makes the comics so much fun to read are all here. The new generation CGI that is used here makes the fight scenes and the characters just jump off the screen. There are a lot of special effects that are used throughout the movie, but it doesn't draw away from the characters or the storyline, and you end up enjoying everything from beginning to end.
Spider-Man 2 - Two years after becoming Spider-Man Peter must make some hard choices in his life when his powers begin to fail, but when he must battle Doc Ock he finds his true calling to be a hero. The character of Doc Ock was a perfect choice to step up the plate in this sequel; with his four mechanical arms the CGI effects are outstanding and at times leaves the audience in awe. The storyline is enhanced by the growth of the characters within the core of the story, and when the villain is introduced you can't feel anything bad for what's happening to them. The battle sequences are levels above what was done in the first movie and at times they leave you breathless.
Spider-Man 3 - While using an alien symbiot, that disguises itself as Peter's Spider-Man outfit, he battles Sandman and when he forcefully removes the symbiot it attaches itself to Eddie Broc and then he must battle Venom. The battle sequences are stepped up another notch here, some of them are so fast paced that if you blink your going to miss something. The further development of the characters gives this movie a depth that most audiences weren't expecting, and with the CGI effects that are used for Sandman and Venom leave you hoping that this won't be the final movie. With the introduction of so many new characters from the comic books, you would think that the storyline would get bogged down and fall apart, but the commanding direction from Raimi the story moves along and never stops until the very end.
All three of these movies are worth watching over and over again, and if the scripts are good and the studio can wrangle the three major players in this story back maybe we'll see more Spider-Man movies in the future. With the CGI effects the way they are, a studio could possibly do a live action TV series and it would be successful, this time around. But none of us knows what the future holds for these characters and the world that they live in, this maybe the end of the line, but maybe the studios should take to heart the tag line from Uncle Ben, "With great power comes great responsibility."