Thwip, Thwack, Whiz...Here's Spidey!!!!

First off, i must say the indian dubbing industry needs a serious revamp. Why literally translate puns into meaningless hindi sentences. Why cant they be substituted with some minor hindi witticism? Why do the same substandard voice artists handle all the movies. And when it comes to pronouncing english words they are simply atrocious. They choose which words to translate and which to leave it in the original language on whims. Every movie from a fantasy action adventure to a war drama is turned into a comedy. If i want real laughs next time ill see a hollywood flick dubbed in bhojpuri....yes, thats the latest language to enter the dubbing fray. And while we are at revamping why not replace the background english score with the nasal tones of Himesh Reshamaiyya?

Now you are probably wondering why the f**k would i bother to watch it in hindi in the first place. Thats because i live in a bloody village. Yes thats what this is. The capital of Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal is nothing more than a glorified village. Mob mentality prevails and the local motto is, lets follow the crowd. Nothing is done in moderation and every trend is taken beyond its limit. And yet, we dont have multiplexes, decent malls, or movies being released in english. Right now the youth is hooked on hookah and rock. You have crappy rock bands cropping up all over the place like unwanted weeds and not one of them plays decently. Not a single original song to their name. And hookah...dont get me started on it.Spending time and money billowing sea like fumes of fruit and peppermint flavoured smoke.

Why this outburst you ask? Well its mostly because once again i was forced to watch a blockbuster Hollywood flick dubbed in mediocre, shabby, low grade Sanskritised Hindi. The flick in question this time being Spiderman 3.

Yep, our favorite webslinger returns for the third and (at least for a while) final installment of the hit franchise. The first words to come to mind are Wasted Potential. Fighting inner darkness and three supercool villains is something that should be a recepie for some great emotional moments and out of this world action sequences. The emotional moments are there but somehow they feel disjointed, even funny at times (okay at most times) when watched in Hindi. The action sequences thought stunning and mind blowing are few and far between. Worst of all, black spidey doesnt get as much screen space as one wouldve wished for which is a pity since the cool costume and attitude change make for an interesting interlude.

This is quite similar to a hindi movie actually. Frustrated love, anguished hearts, emotions bubbling under the surface. But there the similarity ends. Im not going to insult the movie by making further comparisions with your average hindi film. The fight sequences are breathtaking especially the first fight between the Hobgoblin and Peter Parker. These are the benefits of reading my reviews. Being a comic fan i can tell you that Harry Osborn is the HOBGOBLIN thought nowhere in the movie is this mentioned.

Oh, and by the by the soundtrack is also quite good though it remains to be seen if it can parallel that of Spiderman 2.