Madame Web: Regardless of perspective

My mother used to encourage us as kids with toys that resembled G.I. Joe. The action figures were meant to be Transformers, with joints completely out of wack, such as limbs that wouldn’t move, or completely out of shape. No amount of creativity could transform my damaged GoBots into Optimus Prime, even though the worth of these off-brand knockoffs is undoubtedly lower than the real thing, which significantly increased my little allowance.

Now, if a ten-year-old could see into the future (the way kids can use the internet), they could have considered this setback as useful experience for a movie such as “Madame Web,” a cheap, Sony-produced spin-off of Spider-Man. It doesn’t have the same appeal as even the most straightforward superhero movie. As with “Morbius” and “Venom,” Sony is presumably searching for more peripheral characters to exploit, as evidenced by the title “Mutant,” which was never really connected to the character and originates from the edges of the Marvel multiverse.

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Madame Web was a blind, old wheelchair user with superhuman mental abilities in its original, corny form. Here, she plays an athletic Jean Grey ambulance driver who, barely in time to avert disaster, sees ominous visions. She is capable of being “in multiple places at once.” Though maybe not the best ability, this one might not work well in a stand-alone origin story. She loses control of her powers once a pattern is established. The strange “Final Destination”-like flashes of premonitions are offset by the way “Let’s try again” makes each scenario less compelling.

“Madame Web” was never anticipated to reach the high ideas, Disney-defining bar established by the “Avengers” flicks, not even with astute actresses like Dakota Johnson (who might wind up locked in the next “Catwoman,” covering her bet with amazing line reading). The visual effects are cheap, the action is simple, and the screenplay is unclear. It’s just plain embarrassing to use a gimmick that centers Kasey like a massive plasma ball encircled by steady tentacles. But hey, what do you know? The cost of the tickets is still the same as it would be for any official Marvel movie. So why accept the imitation?

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The majorit” Madame Web which will reveal the plans for the Spider-Verse, is set in 2003 New York City, with the exception of the opening scene, which is set on one of those artificially created “Amazon jungle” sets seen in movies like “Dora and the Lost City of Gold.” Constance (Keri Bishe), Kasey’s pregnant mother, leaves for Peru a few weeks after giving birth in an attempt to find a rare spider that has healing powers. She is a scientist who rejects the “mythical spider people who run on top of trees” stories told about Las Aranas. But maybe she ought to.

Campaign backer Ezekiel Sims (Tahar Rahim) provides sponsorship. Constance dies in the bush, not from a stabbing from one of the elusive spiders that gives her unborn daughter its abilities. Even though it’s a comic book movie, the storyline has elements of Greek mythology to it. Growing up as an orphan in New York, Kasey (short for Cassandra) gradually shows her ability to predict the future one event at a time. At thirty, have a near-death experience. Despite her name, people have faith in her.

Spider-Women.

A resident of Manhattan as well, Ezekiel has been troubled by his own recurrent visions; as a result, he has stolen a  spider and developed a somewhat different set of ill-defined skills. He is a single-minded, monomaniacal bore who wants to stop the three young ladies from carrying out the prophecy he believes they are about to fulfill. Kasey foresees the attack and saves their lives before Ezekiel breaks their necks on a train. Though Julia Cornwall (Sydney Sweeney), Anya Corazon (Isabela Merced), and Mattie Franklin (Celeste O’Connor) are only teenagers, Ezekiel sees them as possible prey because they have the potential to become Spider-Women.