Very silly but I feel like the goofy tone was mostly intentional? It captures the inherent silliness of Spider-Man fairly well.
With more money and time to make this, this could've been genuinely pretty good for its time. There's some creativity and decent enough characterisation - more than I expected - but the tv-ness of it all definitely holds it back.
Still, as a rough draft of a film/tv pilot, I feel like it proves Spider-Man could have worked as a proper film made during the late 70s (like the original Superman).
But, for whatever reason, fans of the character would have to wait another 25 years for Spider-Man to get the proper big screen treatment, thanks to one Sam Raimi.
With more money and time to make this, this could've been genuinely pretty good for its time. There's some creativity and decent enough characterisation - more than I expected - but the tv-ness of it all definitely holds it back.
Still, as a rough draft of a film/tv pilot, I feel like it proves Spider-Man could have worked as a proper film made during the late 70s (like the original Superman).
But, for whatever reason, fans of the character would have to wait another 25 years for Spider-Man to get the proper big screen treatment, thanks to one Sam Raimi.