1 of 7 | Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst star in "Spider-Man," returning to theaters Friday. Photo courtesy of Sony Pictures
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- Sam Raimi's Spider-Man films capture how Marvel icon Stan Lee used the superhero stories to teach young readers valuable life lessons. The re-release of the films, in theaters Friday, allows a generation of children born after 2007's Spider-Man 3 to discover the movies on the big screen.
Raimi understood the heart of Spider-Man. Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) was a shy, bullied teenager, and gaining super powers from a genetic spider bite did not really help him. It only gave him more pressure to live up to those powers.
Indeed, the lesson "with great power comes great responsibility" is so obviously at the forefront of the 2002 film, it is often mocked for repetition, sometimes lovingly, sometimes cynically.
'Spider-Man': With great power...
