SPIDER-MAN

2002 ***** 121 mins.

It's almost hard for me to believe that the same man who directed The Evil Dead also directed this masterpiece.

Spider-man gets the silver screen treatment better than any other superhero I have ever seen. Tobey Maguire is perfectly cast as Peter Parker, a young geeky teenager who is bitten by a radioactive spider, thus becoming Spider-man. Kirsten Dunst is absolutely beautiful as his lady-love, Mary Jane Watson. No matter how wild this film may get, it never loses sight of its human quality, which is something most superhero films lack. Spider-man wins on all accounts.