Why Madame Web Is Officially The Worst Spider-Man Movie Ever Made
WARNING: There are Madame Web SPOILERS ahead
Summary
Marvel's catalog of live-action movies has no shortage of critical flops and box office bombs, from 1986's Howard the Duck to 2015's Fantastic Four. The big-screen Spider-Man franchise alone has missed the mark a few times, with titles such as Spider-Man 3, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, and Morbius receiving varying degrees of criticism. However, Madame Web challenges these rankings, not just because of its poor box office performance ($6 million opening day) and disastrous reviews (13% on Rotten Tomatoes), but mostly due to its overall quality.
Spider-Man Movie
Rotten Tomatoes Score
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
97%
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
95%
Spider-Man: No Way Home
93%
Spider-Man 2
93%
Spider-Man: Homecoming
92%
Spider-Man: Far From Home
90%
Spider-Man
90%
The Amazing Spider-Man
71%
Spider-Man 3
63%
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
57%
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
51%
Venom
30%
Morbius
15%
Madame Web
13%
Madame Web's Characters Are One-Dimensional And Dull None Of Madame Web's Characters Are Fully Developed![]()
Madame Web's main characters may not be the most complex heroes in Marvel Comics, but Madame Web misses its chance to flesh them out. Dakota Johnson's Cassie Webb a.k.a. Madame Web doesn't have a defined personality beyond her detached attitude and awkward demeanor. Meanwhile, Julia Cornwall, Anya Corazón, and Mattie Franklin are walking stereotypes, with Julia as the "nerd", Anya as the outgoing teenager, and Mattie as the rebel. Beyond those traits, Madame Web's protagonists are heroic for the sake of being superheroes, and they have no reasons to stick together other than the fact that the plot's requirements.
Madame Web's Dialog Is Groan-Inducingly Bad Madame Web Is Filled With Awkward And Poorly Delivered Lines Of Dialog![]()
Custom Image by Nicolas Ayala One of Madame Web's standout flaws is the dialog. Most Madame Web characters explain the events they're experiencing unprompted, and they choose oddly unnatural ways to do it. For instance, Cassie repeats "I don't have a neuromuscular disorder" almost word for word right after a doctor tells her mother that her child does, in fact, have a neuromuscular disorder. Similarly, Tahar Rahim's cartoonishly evil Ezekiel Sims dumps his deepest fears and his plans to murder three strangers on a woman he just met, and the same woman asks Ezekiel "are you poisoning me?" as soon as he grabs her arm.
"the best part about the future... it hasn't happened yet."
Madame Web features multiple nods to Spider-Man, but it hesitates to go all the way. Most of Adam Scott's screentime is spent referencing Ben Parker's future role as Peter Parker's mentor and his eventual death with lines like "he's dying to be an uncle". Mary Parker also mentions that baby Peter never stops "leaping around" in her womb, and Peter's lesson about responsibility gets hijacked by Cassie when she's told that "when you embrace responsibility, great power will come". Madame Web then ends on an awkward note with the line "the best part about the future... it hasn't happened yet."
Madame Web Misuses Its Most Important Ties To Spider-Man Madame Web Can't Decide Whether To Acknowledge Or Ignore Spider-Man's Existence Close Despite being the closest installment in Sony's Spider-Man Universe to feature Spider-Man himself, Madame Web does nothing of note with its connections to Peter Parker. Cassie Webb's friendship with Ben and Mary Parker has no relevance in her character arc, and she does nothing to affect the baby's birth in any positive or negative way. Ezekiel Sims fails to defeat three regular humans and a novice psychic, yet he steals Peter Parker's status as his universe's first Spider-Man. And of course, Madame Web's three Spider-Women are only Spider-Women in Cassie's brief prophecies, which take place many years in the future.
Madame Web's Villain Is Terrible Ezekiel Sims Is Incompetent And Cartoonishly Evil Close Ezekiel Sims earns his place as the most shallow main villain in Sony's Spider-Man Universe, if not the whole big-screen Spider-Man franchise. Unlike unapologetically evil villains like Spider-Man's Green Goblin and Venom: Let There Be Carnage's Cletus Kasady, Ezekiel Sims sets his sights on the three future Spider-Women because they often kill him in his nightmares. Ezekiel has no reason to believe these nightmares will ever come true, yet he hacks into the world's most advanced surveillance system to track the girls down — which also makes no sense given that he has no point of reference to identify them.
Ezekiel Sims is both an enemy and an ally to Spider-Man in the comics, and he teaches the hero about the mystical origins of their shared spider powers.
Instead of using his massive wealth and resources to order a hit on the three innocent girls, Ezekiel Sims chases them on foot and attempts to kill them with his own hands. And despite having the same powers as most Spider-People, he fails multiple times. In the end, Ezekiel Sims gets crushed by two letters of a Pepsi Cola sign, and the damage Cassie Webb takes is only due to the explosion she caused. In short, Ezekiel Sims sets out to kill three innocent people virtually out of the blue, and he gets himself killed without landing a single blow on any of them.
Madame Web's Main Story Happens After The Movie Ends Madame Web's Whole Plot Is A Set-Up To An Unlikely Sequel Close While Madame Web is an origin story, its lack of full-fledged superheroes is puzzling. Most of the movie's promotional material features Madame Web in her final suit and all three of her allies in full Spider-Women get-up, using their powers. Yet, the brief shots shown in the trailers are all the shots used in the film, and they all take place either in Ezekiel Sims' nightmares or in a possible future foreseen by Cassie. The main heroes' adventures together are left as a hypothetical scenario that may or may not happen in an unlikely Madame Web sequel or simply off-screen.
Madame Web's Lore Is Confusing And Arbitrary Key Info About Madame Web And Her Allies' Powers Is Left Unexplained![]()
Madame Web's rules are never made entirely clear. Why Ezekiel Sims develops similar abilities to Spider-Man while Cassie develops precognition abilities is left ambiguous, and her ability to clone herself conveniently comes out of left field when she needs it. She also learns how to embrace the ability to accurately predict inevitable events, yet she concludes that the future is never written. What's worse, Madame Web never even hints at how Julia, Anya, and Mattie get their own powers, but somehow, their brief flash-forward shots make it clear that they have very distinct abilities and gadgets.
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Related Madame Web Left Out That Awful Amazon Line, But Somehow It's Still Not The Worst Moment In a fittingly unsurprising turn of events, Madame Web was filled with disappointing moments - but the "spiders in the Amazon" wasn't one of them. Madame Web Is Unintentionally Funny, But Not Enough To Be Entertaining Madame Web Is Mostly Uneventful Despite Its Moments Of Unintentional Comedy![]()
Custom Image by Nicolas Ayala All the obvious franchise nods, baffling character decisions, unnatural lines of dialog, and awkward deliveries work together to make Madame Web a funnier movie than it set out to be. But similarly to the viral memes that mocked Morbius, Madame Web's accidental humor falls short of a full-blown comedy or an otherwise funny superhero movie. Half of Madame Web would have to be cut in order to achieve it, and the other half would have to be reworked in order to turn it into a fully serious film.
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Summary
- Madame Web has become the worst Spider-Man movie ever due to its awkward dialogue, weak script, underdeveloped characters, forced franchise nods, and unintentional comedy.
- Madame Web fails to take advantage of its connection to Spider-Man, and simultaneously fails to deliver a standalone movie.
- Two of Madame Web's most baffling flaws are its confusing Marvel lore and its decision to leave the most interesting parts of its story for a future sequel.
Marvel's catalog of live-action movies has no shortage of critical flops and box office bombs, from 1986's Howard the Duck to 2015's Fantastic Four. The big-screen Spider-Man franchise alone has missed the mark a few times, with titles such as Spider-Man 3, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, and Morbius receiving varying degrees of criticism. However, Madame Web challenges these rankings, not just because of its poor box office performance ($6 million opening day) and disastrous reviews (13% on Rotten Tomatoes), but mostly due to its overall quality.
Spider-Man Movie
Rotten Tomatoes Score
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
97%
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
95%
Spider-Man: No Way Home
93%
Spider-Man 2
93%
Spider-Man: Homecoming
92%
Spider-Man: Far From Home
90%
Spider-Man
90%
The Amazing Spider-Man
71%
Spider-Man 3
63%
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
57%
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
51%
Venom
30%
Morbius
15%
Madame Web
13%
Madame Web's Characters Are One-Dimensional And Dull None Of Madame Web's Characters Are Fully Developed
Madame Web's main characters may not be the most complex heroes in Marvel Comics, but Madame Web misses its chance to flesh them out. Dakota Johnson's Cassie Webb a.k.a. Madame Web doesn't have a defined personality beyond her detached attitude and awkward demeanor. Meanwhile, Julia Cornwall, Anya Corazón, and Mattie Franklin are walking stereotypes, with Julia as the "nerd", Anya as the outgoing teenager, and Mattie as the rebel. Beyond those traits, Madame Web's protagonists are heroic for the sake of being superheroes, and they have no reasons to stick together other than the fact that the plot's requirements.Madame Web's Dialog Is Groan-Inducingly Bad Madame Web Is Filled With Awkward And Poorly Delivered Lines Of Dialog
Custom Image by Nicolas Ayala One of Madame Web's standout flaws is the dialog. Most Madame Web characters explain the events they're experiencing unprompted, and they choose oddly unnatural ways to do it. For instance, Cassie repeats "I don't have a neuromuscular disorder" almost word for word right after a doctor tells her mother that her child does, in fact, have a neuromuscular disorder. Similarly, Tahar Rahim's cartoonishly evil Ezekiel Sims dumps his deepest fears and his plans to murder three strangers on a woman he just met, and the same woman asks Ezekiel "are you poisoning me?" as soon as he grabs her arm."the best part about the future... it hasn't happened yet."
Madame Web features multiple nods to Spider-Man, but it hesitates to go all the way. Most of Adam Scott's screentime is spent referencing Ben Parker's future role as Peter Parker's mentor and his eventual death with lines like "he's dying to be an uncle". Mary Parker also mentions that baby Peter never stops "leaping around" in her womb, and Peter's lesson about responsibility gets hijacked by Cassie when she's told that "when you embrace responsibility, great power will come". Madame Web then ends on an awkward note with the line "the best part about the future... it hasn't happened yet."
Madame Web Misuses Its Most Important Ties To Spider-Man Madame Web Can't Decide Whether To Acknowledge Or Ignore Spider-Man's Existence Close Despite being the closest installment in Sony's Spider-Man Universe to feature Spider-Man himself, Madame Web does nothing of note with its connections to Peter Parker. Cassie Webb's friendship with Ben and Mary Parker has no relevance in her character arc, and she does nothing to affect the baby's birth in any positive or negative way. Ezekiel Sims fails to defeat three regular humans and a novice psychic, yet he steals Peter Parker's status as his universe's first Spider-Man. And of course, Madame Web's three Spider-Women are only Spider-Women in Cassie's brief prophecies, which take place many years in the future.
Madame Web's Villain Is Terrible Ezekiel Sims Is Incompetent And Cartoonishly Evil Close Ezekiel Sims earns his place as the most shallow main villain in Sony's Spider-Man Universe, if not the whole big-screen Spider-Man franchise. Unlike unapologetically evil villains like Spider-Man's Green Goblin and Venom: Let There Be Carnage's Cletus Kasady, Ezekiel Sims sets his sights on the three future Spider-Women because they often kill him in his nightmares. Ezekiel has no reason to believe these nightmares will ever come true, yet he hacks into the world's most advanced surveillance system to track the girls down — which also makes no sense given that he has no point of reference to identify them.
Ezekiel Sims is both an enemy and an ally to Spider-Man in the comics, and he teaches the hero about the mystical origins of their shared spider powers.
Instead of using his massive wealth and resources to order a hit on the three innocent girls, Ezekiel Sims chases them on foot and attempts to kill them with his own hands. And despite having the same powers as most Spider-People, he fails multiple times. In the end, Ezekiel Sims gets crushed by two letters of a Pepsi Cola sign, and the damage Cassie Webb takes is only due to the explosion she caused. In short, Ezekiel Sims sets out to kill three innocent people virtually out of the blue, and he gets himself killed without landing a single blow on any of them.
Madame Web's Main Story Happens After The Movie Ends Madame Web's Whole Plot Is A Set-Up To An Unlikely Sequel Close While Madame Web is an origin story, its lack of full-fledged superheroes is puzzling. Most of the movie's promotional material features Madame Web in her final suit and all three of her allies in full Spider-Women get-up, using their powers. Yet, the brief shots shown in the trailers are all the shots used in the film, and they all take place either in Ezekiel Sims' nightmares or in a possible future foreseen by Cassie. The main heroes' adventures together are left as a hypothetical scenario that may or may not happen in an unlikely Madame Web sequel or simply off-screen.
Madame Web's Lore Is Confusing And Arbitrary Key Info About Madame Web And Her Allies' Powers Is Left Unexplained
Madame Web's rules are never made entirely clear. Why Ezekiel Sims develops similar abilities to Spider-Man while Cassie develops precognition abilities is left ambiguous, and her ability to clone herself conveniently comes out of left field when she needs it. She also learns how to embrace the ability to accurately predict inevitable events, yet she concludes that the future is never written. What's worse, Madame Web never even hints at how Julia, Anya, and Mattie get their own powers, but somehow, their brief flash-forward shots make it clear that they have very distinct abilities and gadgets.
Related Madame Web Left Out That Awful Amazon Line, But Somehow It's Still Not The Worst Moment In a fittingly unsurprising turn of events, Madame Web was filled with disappointing moments - but the "spiders in the Amazon" wasn't one of them. Madame Web Is Unintentionally Funny, But Not Enough To Be Entertaining Madame Web Is Mostly Uneventful Despite Its Moments Of Unintentional Comedy
Custom Image by Nicolas Ayala All the obvious franchise nods, baffling character decisions, unnatural lines of dialog, and awkward deliveries work together to make Madame Web a funnier movie than it set out to be. But similarly to the viral memes that mocked Morbius, Madame Web's accidental humor falls short of a full-blown comedy or an otherwise funny superhero movie. Half of Madame Web would have to be cut in order to achieve it, and the other half would have to be reworked in order to turn it into a fully serious film.[圖擷取自網路，如有疑問請私訊]
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