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BlazeLime Strong and Moving!

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Nick Lattin-Scheetz This is probably by far the best cartoon to represent the early Spider-Man universe, while it may not be as good as Spectacular Spider-Man it definitely deserved its applause it got. Although first lets talk about what falls flat: 1. instead of focusing on Spidey's personal life as Peter Parker and how it clashes with him being a superhero, the focus goes toward a new villain being introduced, or a crossover between the web-head and another superhero. 2. The pacing is s--t, it throws so many new concepts at you with such frequency, you don't have time to digest it all. 3. (This is a nitpick it doesn't affect the story and show as a whole) The HobGoblin is introduced before the Green Goblin and in the comics it's supposed to be the other way around 4. Every time a villain does something bad Spider-Man is the first person they blame for it, they clearly seem too dumb to live. 4. Mary-Jane Watson's Aunt Anna is by far the most annoying character in the show, every single scene she's in has her insulting Peter, literally every scene she's in, she will never ever say anything good about Peter, she's even insulted her in front of Mary- Jane and Aunt May, how is it that J. Jonah Jameson, Peter's boss, can create the Scorpion to kill him not knowing he's Spider-Man, run several campaigns against him, put a bounty on his head twice, and still be more likable than Anna Watson? 5. the voice direction and dialogue is lame, everyone over-enunciates, points out the obvious, and states what they're gonna do out loud before doing it. For example, Spider-Man always has an inner monologue in every episode that never stops, when half of what he's babbling about could be established visually, if Samurai Jack and Batman: the animated series could do it so could this. OK on to the good stuff 1. The show knows how to stay true to the original stories from the comics while also adding some new and unique twists to them. 2. Even though Spider-Man's mono-logging is annoying they make up for that by giving him some very funny one-liners, in fact Spider-Man was lucky enough to have all the best dialogue compared to everyone else. 3. Jameson happens to also be very funny to listen to, him and his clever insults towards the web head are one of the many highlights. 4. The theme song is great, the lyrics are trash but the instrumental part rules, just listen to those awesome guitar riffs and you'll see what I mean, and that's my review for Spider-Man: the animated series, yes there are major issues with it but the stuff that's good is really good so get together with your fellow Spidey fans and give it a watch

Cheese Hoven It is a much debated point whether this or the Spectacular Spiderman from the 2000s is the better version, I would personally say that Spectacular is by a short head but both versions fail to live up to expectations.Each season is conceived as a single story line divided in chapters. While this adds to the sense of continuity in places, it can also become strained as the writers try to force their ideas into these strait jackets. Generally the writing becomes more convoluted and less convincing as the series progresses.The art is good but hardly the equal of the wonderfully stylish DC animations of the same period. The stories are largely 'adapted' from various comic books. I should really say 'cobbled together' rather than 'adapted' since these cartoons do not do justice to their source material. Different story arcs which take place in the comic books many years apart are here unconvincingly stuck together with details and characters changed. These changes are never an improvement and often seem to be merely watered down versions of the original.The most striking example is when the Green Goblin learns Spider Man's secret identity and throws Mary Jane off a New York bridge. This is 'adapted' from a celebrated couple of story lines from Spider man 39 and 121, many years apart. In the original, Spider Man's then girlfriend Gwen Stacey is actually killed in perhaps the most famous of all Spider man stories. Here MJ is merely transferred to some sort of parallel dimension, one which is poorly explained (how can the Green Goblin survive there for months without food and drink for example?) To make matters worse, while MJ is missing for months, not only does Spider man NOT make any real effort to find her, he has a fling with another woman, namely the Black Cat. And then MJ comes back in a poorly conceived story line.The writing throughout is mediocre but this particular story arc is very shoddy. The Black Cat goes off to Europe to find a cure for her (other) lover then, with no explanation given, turns up at the wedding of Parker and MJ. The Punisher, in another poorly motivated strand, gets involved in the search for MJ. He just happens to be at the graveyard when MJ's mother is there, and she invites him, a man wearing a skull on his shirt and a bandanna, back to her home for a cup of tea? Numerous other examples of the silly writing could be cited, all designed to cobble together these different source materials.As in the comics, Gwen Stacey is cloned after her death, here MJ after her (death? disappearance? who knows?) is cloned too in a much less convincing way. Then we have the mad dash for the end with a routine adaptation of Secret Wars and a nod to the then-contemporary "clone saga". In the end, a lot of plot threads are just left dangling. What happened to MJ? Or indeed the Green Goblin? Why should Uncle Ben be alive in a universe where spiderman exists? What about the Morbius and Blade story?

jschroeck92 I grew up watching this series and I loved it. I was always looking forward to watching this when I came home from school back in the 90's. Its perfect with great story lines, well-based off of the original comics. The only thing that was missing was Gwen Stacy but I was perfectly fine with that. The creators did a great job. I only wish someone could make a new Spiderman TV series, just as good as this one, with well drawn characters (not the stupid Japanese anime crap) that the children of our generation today could love Spiderman as much as I did.The villains in this series are amazing, my favorite is Carnage. If you actually compare this series to the original comics, it is actually so close to being exact. That's what people want! They want a classic Spiderman based off of the original comics. Not like the crap movies that have Toby McGuire in them. He is a terrible Peter Parker. This series is totally worth it. Check it out on Netflix.

Aqua_Fresca I'm not going to lie, Spider-Man: the Animated Series was one of my favorite cartoons growing up. It was a delightful contrast to Batman: the Animated Series, and while I did enjoy the colorful animation and sarcastic humor, this is one cartoon in a long line of many that just doesn't hold up very well. Specifically, in the case of Spider-Man, it's nearly unwatchable.To cut straight to the point, what ultimately does Spider-Man in for me is its excessive content and horrendous pacing. Every episode feels like it tries to pack too much into 20 minutes, and the pacing doesn't give anything room to breathe or settle. Each episode shifts between multiple scenes relentlessly, employing shoddy transitions that make everything feel like its running together. From the change of scenery it's obvious when a scene change has been made, but it doesn't feel that way, often coming across like one big scene that has trouble deciding when to end.Another thing that really bothered me is how artificial the emotional side of the show could be. Whenever certain tragic moments would come up, their emotional impact would either be diminished because of the bad pacing, or would be devoted to for all of ten seconds in order to explain why a character decides to go from A to B.For example, in the Man-Spider saga when Punisher is about to kill Peter, a doctor with the means to help cure him convinces the Punisher not to by literally summarizing his origins in a couple seconds, even complete with a split-second shot of a tear running down his face. It's a moment that exemplifies this aspect of the show for me, because A) it takes this emotional part of a character's life and reduces it to a simple plot point, and B) it shows just how intimate the show was willing get with its characters.It's all of these factors together that really turn Spider-Man into a chore rather than enjoyment, and while I understand that the show's desire is to create silly, escapist entertainment for children, it just doesn't translate into a high quality product, and had the crew worked harder then the result might've been a show that would've been worth watching, at the least.