Freaktana A Major Disappointment

GarnettTeenage The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Cheese Hoven To start off with the good news. The music is great. The theme tune is a classic and the incidental music is memorable, if a little repetitious at times.Next the animation, which is variable. Some of it is very good indeed, such as close up on Spiderman's hands and some of the scenes of him climbing walls are rendered with great attention to detail. We do not mind so much when these shots are re-used over and over again. Faces of characters are largely well done and simply, though effectively, animated. But lots of the animation is rather routinely done, static backgrounds or often no backgrounds and the same sequences re-used.The voices are likewise variable. The main characters are good (although Spiderman's voice sounds too mature) but the villains are done in an over the top way.But the real villain here are the story lines. Just because these cartoons were intended for children does not mean children should be treated as idiots. In the very first episode, for example, "The power of Dr Octopus" Peter Parker just happens to stumble upon Doc Ock's secret lair after his car falls off a mountain road! If this is not laughable enough, Betty Brant happens upon this lair too when looking for Peter.OK for a nostalgia trip or for very undemanding kids.

disdressed12 this animated Spider man series ran 3 seasons with 77 episodes.i watching it as a kid and loving it.i finally bought it on DVD and i love it just as much today.sure the sound effects are cheesy, as is the music. and you can tell they had a very limited budget to work with and there are a lot of goofs in the show,but so what.that's all part of its charm.the villains are great and a lot of action is packed into the roughly 12 minute episodes(some are around 20 minutes)the Theme song is brilliant,and actually not in a cheesy way,it's instantly infectious and memorable. after you hear it once ,it'll probably stick in your head.not many shows form that era stand the test of time,but this one certainly does.for me Spider-Man the animated series(1967)is a well deserved 10/10

mrmoore1970 Although I was born the same year that Spider-man went off the air in 1970, it ran in syndication, which I watched all the episodes when it aired. Compared with the contemporary cartoons of my childhood such as Speed Racer, The Superfriends, Most of Filmation Studios animation, etc., the original Spider-Man cartoon, by far, had better graphics, music, etc. than the subsequent "Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends" among other recent Spider-Man episodes, although they were more advanced, consistent, and greater story lines. Spider-Man had an original animation theme, such as the original Lone ranger Cartoon of the 1960s (Format Films). This Spider-Man will always remain a classic to me.

medic249a2 I grew up watching this series when it was airing in the early 1980's. Now, watching it 20 years later, one wonders what some of the artists were doing when they created some of the backgrounds for it - namely the purple-yellow-red colored skies that Spidey often swung across. Understandable in some episodes, but they appeared in most of them. Some of the villains, such as the Green Goblin, Rhino, & Doc Oc came from the comics, but it was some of the more unconventional villains I was especially impressed with - ones such as the Radiation Specialist, the Skymaster, and Pardo (the weird thief with the giant cat).No doubt my favorite was the psychopathic radiation specialist - a very human villain, unlike some of the others. He could have been a member of the Atomic Energy Commission, who was fired for his grandiose ideas. This maniac appeared in 2 episodes: 'Swing City', where he is referred to as the 'Master Technician', and 'Specialists & Slaves'. The latter was more chilling as this creep revealed his grandiose plans to make Manhattan his 'kingdom' after being thwarted by Spidey earlier. He sends a wave of low-dose radiation across Manhattan, brainwashing everyone, including the police - traditionally Spidey's friends - into unquestioning loyalty. Again, he lifts Manhattan into the sky, and Spidey, undeterred by his threats, comes after him. But the specialist triggers a number of earthquakes to send Spidey falling into the streets, where he is soon captured. Only Captain Stacey, whose strong mind has immunized him against the specialist's radiation, comes to Spidey's help. Playing both sides of the fence to avoid detection, he manages to help Spidey escape the prison hospital. Spidey heads to the reactor for a showdown with the specialist, who discovers that Spidey has escaped and lets him into the reactor for the confrontation. The specialist tries to turn Spidey into a slave with high-dose radiation, but by force of will, Spidey resists the radiation & kicks the specialist in the face. The specialist, enraged at his failure, fires a ray at Spidey, which misses Spidey & hits the controls sustaining the anti-gravity ray. Manhattan starts to fall and Spidey overpowers the specialist, trapping the man with his webs. Spidey lowers the island safely & shuts off the reactor, stopping the brainwashing radiation.This had to be one of my favorite episodes. The specialist shows some of the traits we see so often in criminals today - especially an over-exaggerated sense of self-importance.The series has some cheesy moments, but what series made in that time didn't have them? And the 'cheesy' factor makes it that much more fun to watch now, almost 40 years after it was made.