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Spiderman: The Hobgoblin [VHS]

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This video is actually made from an episode of Spiderman that aired on television. I purchased it for my four and a half year old son who adores Spiderman. He also has the VHS tape of the origin of Spiderman (made in the 60's). He likes this episode better though, because of the story involving Hobgoblin and Kingpin. It certainly shows how far our animation has come in 30 years. The look is definitely updated for the 90's; Peter Parker no longer wears glasses, and looks more well built than he did in years past. Still he carries the angst of not being able to do the right thing which is what always made Spiderman different from other superheroes (as is evidenced by how the doctor and Mary Jane feel about his treatment of Aunt Mae).

This is definitely not the "Ultimate Spiderman" (Spiderman trapped in a different universe) for which I am grateful. Thank you Marvel, I hope you put out more episodes, so we can collect them all.

...It's Spider-Man for heaven's sake! Of course they use previous animation it's cheaper that way of course, but it's still a totally awesome storyline with great action and Spider-Man as witty as ever!

The reason the Kingpin story didn't seem to "go anywhere" is that this isn't a movie, it's an episode from the 1990s Spider-man TV show on Fox. I liked the show quite a bit; it had pretty good animation and the stories were interesting, even if they didn't always hold completely true to the comic book's stories. Chances are if the sound and animation don't line up in places, it's more likely to be the result of the video production (I've seen it happen before). Spider-man is one of the few cartoons I've watched which had characters that seemed more real and actually developed over time (another cartoon that did a good job with that was the Real Ghostbusters).

I bought this VHS for my younger brother. I opted for the VHS because he has a horrible habit of not putting movies up in their case. This movie has been watched many times by him and still works great.

This is not the old Spidey cartoon I grew up on. It is some 1990 remake and is not all that good.

PRETTY GOOD CARTOON. MARVEL COMICS ON VIDEO IS WAY COOL!

Spidey's back and this time he's still wearing pant's. Ugly bad guy's in masks all over the world beware.