Ther is just something about Sam Raimi's voice. I wish the track was just him and maybe Tobey. There was just to many people on one track. They should have split the tracks up.

Sam Raimi really sucks on this one. And Kirsten sounds like a complete fool. The only one who sounds like they know just what in the hell they are doing is the producer, who is mildly entertaining. A very blah commentary.

This commentary should've been much better than it was. There were too many long silent stretches and too few words out of Kirsten. This track also suffers from the dreaded "groups of people talking in different places who can't hear each other" syndrome, resulting in lots of repeated information and extremely limited interaction between the FOUR people on the track. I honestly was not expecting much, but I was still horribly disappointed.

I agree with the sentiment of a mediocre commentary track. A lot of the discussions from each group is not very interesting or informative. This should've been better than it turned out to be.

As others have said, this commentary should've been better than it was. Sam and Grant were recording their part in LA, while Laura and Kirsten were recording theirs in London, and they were spliced together. Grant was probably the most interesting and informative person on the track.

I don't mind when actors or crew poke fun of the movie that they worked on. Nothing's perfect and if you treat it as if it IS perfect and infallible, then don't bother doing a commentary. At the same time, don't just rip it apart for the sake of ripping it apart. Kirsten pokes a few holes in the movie here and there (just innocent things like "what a cheesy line", "that didn't look good" or "I don't know why this character did that"), but you can hear it in Laura's voice that she doesn't take too kindly to those jabs. Take it easy, Laura. It's a movie. You're not curing cancer.

Superb in-depth commentary. Dykstra especially doesn't hold back with the technical info.
Probably the better of the two commentaries on the SE DVD.

For the FX geeks out there, this commentary is amazing (heh). John and Scott do a lot of explaining these brand new processes like "pre-viz" and "dynamics" and "simulations" (which in this day and age makes their commentary a little dated). They speak slowly and clearly and don't get TOO technical, but still display a great amount of knowledge of their craft. It's also fun because you get little anecdotes from Scott and Anthony about times when they butted heads.

Would definitely recommend this to anyone interested in the technical, photographic and VFX-side of movies.

These two have a nice rapport. Maguire refreshingly has a wry understanding of the industry, and J.K. Simmons adds a veteran presence. They recorded this between the first Spider-Man and the second, which provides some nice context of where the CGI and superhero industry was at the time. There are some amusing anecdotes throughout and it is only marginally technical. They are not silent often but the gaps do grow as the film continues on, but they are never Tim Burton or Rob Reiner sized gaps.