YMMV / Three Big Men

• Awesome Music: Naturally, when part of your Main Title is stolen from Diamonds Are Forever. The track in question is "Moon Buggy Ride", about three minutes in.
• Best Known for the Fanservice: 44 minute into the movie, a stripper known as Mrs. Janette performs a striptease in a bar, complete with a Sexy Silhouette as she undresses. Unlike most of the move, this scene is well choreographed.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment:
  • During the sex scene between The Spider and Nadia, there are shots of bizarre puppets with menacing laughter played over it. There is absolutely no explanation for why, and the puppets are never seen again.
  • At the 55 minute mark, and in the final battle, Captain America and El Santo fight multiple copies of The Spider. Captain America is visibly confused by this, but he never comments on their being multiple Spiders.
• Complete Monster: The Spider, an interpretation of Spider-Man with no similarity besides the costume, is the cause of the crime wave of Istanbul. Leader of a gang that steals precious objects, sells and then re-buys them with counterfeit money, he is introduced killing a woman by leaving her head to be sliced by boat propellers. After his crimes call the attention of Captain America and El Santo, the Spider continues with his crimes alongside his girlfriend Nadia, strangling a rich woman in her bathroom and later impaling a couple to steal her possessions. A cruel boss, the Spider executes a former ally by leaving his face to be eaten by rodents; abandons Nadia after she is fatally injured; and laughs at the deaths of his minions during his last fight. Without care for anyone but himself, the Spider was a sadist criminal that enjoyed killing people in creative ways.
• Crosses the Line Twice: The Spider's brutal ways of killing people invokes this for some viewers. The scene where The Spider pulls a You Have Failed Me on one of his henchmen by feeding him to mice is especially both horrifying and absurd.
• Evil Is Cool: The Spider may be a con-artist, a serial killer, and a sadist, but he pulls off all sorts of insane and wacky crimes, and somehow manages to cheat his own death multiple times, making him one of the most amusing characters to watch. Rog from I-Mockery lampshades this.
  I hate to admit it, but I think I'm starting to like this Spider-Man better than the real "good guy" one.
• Fight Scene Failure: All over the place. Expect any fight in the movie to feature stiff karate chops, awkward kicks that somehow knock someone off their feet, and one of the heroes picking up an opponent only to set them down somewhere else.
• Funny Moments:
  • The Spider jumping out of a tee-pee to stab a unsuspecting mafia goon. "Adios, Mafia!"
  • El Santo showering in white briefs. Not all heroes have dignity.
  • After The Spider escapes the graveyard by jumping off a wall, he lands near a drunken local, startling him. When he dismisses it as a hallucination caused by drinking, Captain America also lands next to him, causing the local to get up and run like hell.
  • Anytime El Santo shoves an objects in his pants.
  • El Santo, after being caught stealing from one of The Spider's henchman, fighting off a bunch of karate men.
  • The way Spider-Man's unlucky henchman gets killed off. His face is eaten not by a dog or a shark, but by mice that are played by guinea pigs.
  • After the striptease, an agent working with Captain America talks with the bartender, both complementing the show. When the bartender tells him that Mrs. Janette will appear tomorrow night, he asks who Mrs. Janette is. The bartender's response?
  "You don't know shit."
  • Captain America's reaction to when he gets attacked by a second Spider.
  • After being defeated multiple times, The Spider shouts "Goodnight, Americanos!" as he finally escapes.
  • The Bar Fight, where the bartender unsuccessfully tries to break up. Afterwards, Meral asks the bartender to clean up.
  • The ending. As Captain America and El Santo bid farewell, Cap sees The Spider in a nearby car. Captain America runs to the car and forcefully removes the mask... only to find out that it was a kid with a mask identical to The Spider, much to his allies amusement. After a while, Cap laughs it off and throws the mask away.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The conflict between Spider-Man and Captain America unintentionally foreshadows their conflict in Civil War (2006), as well as its adaptation, though Spider-Man was siding with Iron Man at that time.
  • Spider-Man's cruelty in the film became more hilarious after Doc Ock switched bodies with Peter Parker in the comics.
  • The multiple copies of Spider-Man eventually became canon, with a proper explanation. They don't fight Captain America and El Santo, however.
• Love to Hate: Despite having no sympathetic qualities other than his Unholy Matrimony with Nadia, and even that gets thrown out of the window following her death, The Spider is seen as the main highlight of the film due to his extreme ruthlessness and intelligence.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • "Adios, Mafia!" ^ExplanationThe Spider quips this after jumping out of a tee-pee to stab a unsuspecting mafia goon.
  • "Goodnight, Americanos!" ^ExplanationAfter Captain America and El Santo fight multiple copies of The Spider, the real one quips this before retreating.
• Moral Event Horizon: For most viewers, The Spider crosses it in the opening scene when he kills an innocent woman by leaving her head to be sliced by boat propellers, all for his amusement. Meanwhile, for those who see his Unholy Matrimony with Nadia as a redeeming quality, his apathy towards her death erases his only positive trait.
• Narm: Some would argue that the mice murder scene is this. To add to the unintentional humor, the mice are clearly played by guinea pigs.
• Narm Charm: Despite the Special Effects Failure, getting your face eaten by rodents is definitely a Cruel and Unusual Death, and the helpless goon's reaction to the whole scene only enhances the horror.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The opening scene, when The Spider kills an innocent woman by leaving her head to be sliced by boat propellers, all for his amusement.
  • When a henchman fails to stop El Santo, The Spider kidnaps him and sends mice to eat his face. As absurd as the scene is, getting your face eaten by rodents is definitely a painful way to die.
• Quirky Work: Many scenes, and Spidey's new personality count, but arguably the most qualified would have to be Spider-Man and Nadia's sex scene, freaky puppets and all.
• So Bad, It's Good: The only thing this movie will be remembered for is its sheer absurdity.
• Special Effects Failure: What do you expect from a movie that blatantly rips off Marvel's franchises and was financed by spare change found underneath the producer's couch cushions?

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