Spiderman 3 Review - Caution: Spoilers

Spiderman 3 Movie Review
By: Theresa Margaret
Peter Parker, the icon of NY, is finally on top of the ball. He’s going to propose to Mary Jane (MJ), and everyone loves him. But life takes a turn for the worse. Harry has inherited his father’s curse and is the New Green Goblin. He is sworn to kill Peter because he still thinks Peter killed his father. He and MJ seem to grow farther and farther apart. A new villain, Sandman, has sprung up and seems unstoppable. And an alien substance has bonded with Peter, enhancing his aggression and revenge.
After hurting MJ and making a fool of himself, Peter realizes that he must get rid of the substance. In a church, he painfully pulls the alien substance off himself. Unfortunately, it falls on Eddie Brock, photographer vying for Peter’s position at the Daily Bugle. Eddie is transformed into Venom, and together with Sandman, he plots Peter’s downfall.
Venom hangs MJ high in the sky, suspended in a taxi cab by a black web. Peter, on his way to save her, swings by Harry’s house to ask for help. Harry refuses, and Peter leaves.
Peter/Spiderman arrives on the scene and does his best to save MJ, but the Sandman and Venom together prove too much for him. Then, in the nick of time, Harry appears and saves Peter. His butler had told him the truth about his father, and Harry was now forever friends with Peter. Together they fight the villains. Tragically, Harry jumps in front of Peter just as Venom throws a sword at him. Harry falls, and Peter finishes off Venom. Sandman repents and flies away peacefully.
Peter and MJ watch as Harry dies. Peter and MJ get back together, and the credits roll.
The special effects in this movie were amazing. The villains were fantasticly evil. The acting was, on the whole, superb. MJ was a little too self-pitying, and Peter did act like a fool while under the alien substance’s grasp, but they turned out alright.
This movie was definately more violent than the first two, and it deserves its MPAA PG-13 rating for sequences of intense action violence.
On the whole, this was my most favorite of the three films. The message of redemption and the fact that you always have a choice rang true throughout the entire film. I would recommend this film to anyone, over the age of 13, who enjoys action films or the previous Spiderman films.

Review: The Village

The Village
Reviewed by Trisha Phillips, age 15

The MPAA rating for The Village is PG-13 for a scene of violence and frightening situations.

The Village is packed with seat wrenching scenes that will keep your attention throughout the whole movie. The villagers are mortally afraid of the ‘creatures’ that live in the woods surrounding the village. The creatures also keep them from traveling to the ‘towns’ outside of the woods. For the past several years they have had a mutual alliance with the creatures, the villagers don’t enter the woods and the creatures don't come into the valley, but lately they have been venturing into the village.

Most of the townspeople are content with living off the land, but when Ivy, blind from a young age, finds out that the only way to save her fiancé from mortal injuries is to travel through the woods into the towns, she takes on the challenge with only her heart and her father’s confidence to guide her.

Throughout the movie you find caring and loving people who all work together to keep their village safe and homely, but nonetheless they are extremely afraid of death and hardships. The end has a very surprising twist, but what else would you expect from the maker of Signs and The Sixth Sense?