Director: Sam Raimi
Starring: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Topher Grace, Thomas Haden Church
Distributed by: Sony Home Entertainment
Release Date: June 12, 2012
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Running Time: 139 minutes
Blu-ray Score: 4 out of 5 stars
Film Score: 2 out of 5 stars
Extras Score: 2 out of 5 stars
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has decided to reissue the “Spider-Man” Trilogy in lieu of this summer’s reboot “The Amazing Spider-Man”. The film is presented in a nice individual O-Ring package. In addition, this release includes a bunch of great features including an Ultraviolet streaming digital copy. Also their is a sneak peek included for “The Amazing Spider-Man”, as well as “The Amazing Spider-Man” movie money (worth $10 bucks). I am not a fan of this film at all but it does have a lot of perks in this release and looks and sounds the best. So if you want to complete the trilogy on Blu-ray, this is the release to get.
This Blu-ray consists of the best release of the three films. It packs the best video and audio presentation out of the trilogy. The 1080p transfer looks fantastic and is presented in its original aspect ratio of 2.39:1. The audio track plays similar to the past releases unlike recent 2012 re-releases of “Spider-Man” and “Spider-Man 2” including LPCM 5.1 and Dolby TrueHD 5.1 tracks.
The special features for “Spider-Man 3” are not as grand as the first two films and falls short like the film itself. In fact, the past Blu-ray for this film has actually provided better features. There are two commentaries tracks included. The first is a director and cast track with Sam Raimi, James Franco, Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Thomas Hayden Church and Bryce Dallas Howard. Second, there is a filmmaker’s track with producers Avi Arad, Grant Curtis, Laura Ziskin, visual effects supervisor Scott Stokdyk and editor Bob Murawski. There are two photo galleries focusing on concept art and special effects. There is a blooper reel like the first two films. Lastly there is a music video for “Signal Fire,” performed by Snow Patrol.
