• Avail: Now
• Distributed by: Columbia Pictures
• Run Time: 139 minutes

Hey folks, Valkor here and welcome back to BluView, where we cover everything and anything Blu Ray. I wasn’t planning on covering this particular disc, but since it came with the PS3 and really it was just sitting in the case, I thought why not give a bit more coverage to Spider-Man 3.

The Story

Spider-Man continues right after the second film. Peter Parker has the girl, the job, and life as Spider-Man isn’t so bad. But a strange rock crash lands near him and his girlfriend Mary Jane and unbeknownst to Peter he is infected with a Symbiote. This Black ooze comes into play when Kane Marko aka the Sandman makes an appearance. It’s also revealed that Marko might also be responsible for the death of Ben Parker, Pete’s uncle who died in the first film. Toss in the Black ooze giving Pete a new black suit, enhancing his powers, and feeding off of him making him darker, sinister, but Pete rejects the suit, which it then goes off and finds a new host, one Eddie Brock. Oh and did I forget Harry Osborn as the new Green Goblin shows up to cause a mess of things?

But clearly the entire film is a mess as too much is being crammed in such a short amount of time. Literally some scenes are skimped over so quickly that if you literally blink you won’t know what’s going on. Plus the crying. CRYING!! In a superhero movie?? I’m not talking the females; we’re talking the hero and villain!! UGH!! I still find it hard to sit through this film, one year later, still can’t do it.

You can read my complete review of the film [HERE].

Audio/Video

Spider-man is presented in 2.40:1 1080p hi-def and it really, really shows! As much as I trash the story, the transfer is amazing beautiful. The picture quality is amazingly crisp and clean with no compression effects that I noticed.  Wait until Sandman hits the screen, you can make out almost every grain of sand, its damn beautiful. Audio is done in Dolby TrueHD 5.1, And you get an additional French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Thai! Wow talk about covering your bases. You also get extensive subtitles in French, Spanish, Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin, Korean, Thai, and Portuguese. Whew!

The Extras

Very, very bare bones when it comes to extras as you don’t get much. You get the filmmaker and cast commentary, a music video, some bloopers, a photo gallery, and trailers.

I was hoping beyond hope that Raimi would go back into Spider-Man 3 and do a bit of editing, expending on a scene here, taking out a scene there, but sadly I hate the Blu Ray as much as I hated seeing Spider-Man on the big screen. Since it came free with the PS3 I can’t complain too much, but for anyone looking to delve into the series, rent it rather than buy it and just stick with the first two. My score still stands at 2, hopefully the next film, if there will be a next film, will be greatly improved and no rushing and cramming.