Spider Man Turn Off The Dark

Oh, God. That's never a good thing.

Given how completely unfaithful the original script was to the Spider-Man mythos, completely re-writing it is probably the smartest thing they've done.

How does someone turn off the dark, anyhow?

Fetish Retardant for the dark?

Spiderman does it by the power of AWESOME.

No, he does so by the power of CRAPPY MUSICALS!

It's managed to turn suck into a renewable energy source.

Okay, for the record, it doesn't suck now. Just... don't watch if you can't handle origin changes. It's mostly faithful to the original story, Uncle Ben still gets shot to death, but they change the origins for one or two characters. By which I mean Carnage, Kraven the Hunter, Lizard, Electro, and Swarm.

You've seen it?

Dang. There goes the fun in hating it.

Though I still maintain, based on "Rise Above," that Bono and The Edge don't know how to write lyrics for characters.

edited 26th May '11 11:43:37 AM by Pannic

That song does suck. I agree.

My grandmother of all people went and saw it a few weeks ago and said it was great. I have a feeling she really didn't understand half of it, and I'm sure she doesn't know a damn thing about Spiderman anyway, but she was impressed with the flying and didn't give us any impression that it sucked. Now I want to see it, but we only do one broadway show a year basically and we chose Book of Mormon based on the rave reviews, and I am looking forward to it...

I realized something.

Around the beginning of the musical, prior to Peter getting bitten, it's largely average by musical standards, but when he becomes Spider-Man, the musical suddenly becomes filled with jokes (including the Green Goblin's crack at the Shake Weight) and a certain showoff-y nature in regards to all the aerial tricks.

Just like Spider-Man himself.

They played one of the songs from it at the Tony Awards.

Gotta admit, it wasn't that bad. But Bono and the Edge need to understand that when you write lyrics for theatre, you need to write lyrics for characters. Someone send them a copy of Finishing the Hat.

If the Tony performance was an indication of what the musical is like, it still isn't very good. While the actors are safer, the material hasn't actually improved.

Okay. When a legit show is making fun of you, you HAVE to listen.

They have bad "Sesame Street" Cred

edited 14th Jun '11 4:22:11 PM by cheeseypoofs

Something's gone desperately wrong when SESAME STREET has decided to mock you for a sketch.

Now THE YOUNGEST CHILDREN will only associate the Spider-"Monster" stage musical for sucking.

Yep. Reputation certainly isn't tarnished.

Why did Disney say yes to this concept!?

Which concept?

The getting mocked by Sesame Street.

They had to say yes. It's not some lawyer friendly parody.

Parody doesn't have to be lawyer-friendly. Parody is protected automatically. The only possible case that Disney could advance is that it isn't really a parody at all. And that would be laughed out of court. Literally.