Spider-Man 3: Too many villains, too little focus on characters
One of the toughest problems that faces filmmakers involved in creating and selling any "franchise" movie series (whether it's Indiana Jones, Star Trek, Star Wars, Batman or Superman ) is "How do you keep an audience's interest (and repeat business) in your characters and situations without getting stale or silly?" Now, there are lots of possible good answers, but two of the most obvious are "Be consistent and follow the rules of the universe you create, and above all, don't be constantly remaking the first movie over and over again." Unfortunately, not every screenwriter, director or creative team keeps these rules of the road in mind. The Superman movies which starred the late Christopher Reeve started out with a classic (Richard Donner's Superman: The Movie ) then qualitatively slid downhill when the producers decided to give the next two movies to Richard Lester. So when Sam Raimi's first two Spider-Man movies proved...