Score: 37/100
Score on a par with: Hannibal Rising 37/100; Happy Feet 35/100; Underworld: Evolution 38/100; Madagascar 35/100; Sin City 35/100; After the Sunset 36/100; Dodgeball 39/100; The Day After Tomorrow 35/100; Taking Lives 35/100; Elephant 39/100; Finding Nemo 38/100; Star Trek – Nemesis 39/100; Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones 38/100; Enemy at the Gate 37/100
Marvel does it again with this incoherent ramble through The Incredible Hulk, Saturday Night Fever and Rising Damp. The script was rather Napoleon Dynamite (you’re so, like, evil), and the acting was terrible: Toby Maguire seems more like Mr Bean with every appearance. The villains were disappointing – one was like a sandy Martin Clunes, and the other was an irritated photographer who’d been infected by something from a fifties B-movie (it fell out of the sky near the beginning of the film for no apparent reason). The special effects appeared to have come from the same fifties B-movie.
There were some mitigating features to it – the waiter from the Pythons’ Mr Creosote sketch was reproduced in full and there was a hilarious section in which Peter Parker turned “bad” in a Michael Jackson sense of the word, dancing about the streets and brushing his hair a different way – but on the whole this was a load of poorly directed, poorly acted, poorly written crap which was entertaining for all the wrong reasons. It’s a good job I love a really terrible film, because this was one.
This is no job for a man on beta blockers.
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