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Too much Peter Parker and not enough Spider-Man. Also, too much cheesy drama:

• Cheesy Peter Parker introspection and MJ storyline.
• Cheesy Spidey-gets-keys-to-the-city scene.
• Cheesy Spider-Man/Venom inner struggling.
• Cheesy Aunt May “revenge is like poison” conversation with Peter Parker.

Sadly, Spider-Man wasn’t even the coolest character in the movie (a sentiment echoed by the on-screen youthful spectator-characters in the final scene of the movie). I have to say that Harry Osborn as the Green Goblin 2 stole the show, with his flying rocket-powered snowboard:

The Spider-Man movies have given a weird Superman-like quality to the Spider-Man character in that Peter Parker/Spider-Man are basically completely unmasked by the end of the movie. He was unmasked at the end of Spider-Man 2 when rescuing Mary Jane from Doctor Octopus (thus revealing his identity to Mary Jane), but they were in a secluded area.

I don’t understand how he is supposed to maintain his secret identity after Spider-Man 3 because the final scene takes place in the middle of New York with tons of press covering the event …