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Originally Posted by Sean
To sum it up super-quickly, too many ideas and not enough time spent flushing them all out. Venom, Sandman, Goblin....sort of.....all getting a minute of screen time here and there, and all conveniently falling together for a big climactic fight. But with so little time spent developing each, it's hard to give a crap what happens to any of them. That was my problem.
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i know what you mean, but i think it's a judgment call -- you def get the feeling of many many knives being juggled, but i still thought the balance between each plotline, character, funny moments, actions, and themes was about as good as it could've been (i.e. clear, concise, fun, and genuinely meaningful by the end). i was definitely never confused by the film, except over one small point. and a lot of people are complaining about how there was too much crying, which i also disagree with. there's this overall critical/viewer consensus that it's some kind of pretentious, unenjoyable emo-fest, which i think is totally off
i'm not sure character development was really that necessary, since these characters are all basically archetypes, and the film seems to've been based on a series of meta-gestures within the comic book subgenre, i.e. using the familiar characters & superhero/villain tropes to communicate very familiar themes in a different, self-consciously cartoony way. that probably makes no sense because
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