I can’t say definitively, but it seems my parents brought me to see this film when I was just eleven years old, and they appeared at least uneasy about it, especially considering they had taken me to Batman Returns only a short time before. Revisiting the movie after three decades, it struck me as something designed for viewers under the influence because I honestly couldn’t make sense of what I was watching. There's…

It’s alright, but it didn’t quite live up to what I expected given how much I liked Ralph Bakshi’s earlier Spider-Man animated series from the nineteen sixties. The animation and a really good soundtrack—they feel wonderfully old-fashioned—help distract from a script that's pretty weak and lacks imagination. Honestly, I think I would have preferred seeing Shirley Clarke’s movie with a comparable title made in the six…