Continuing the comic book-turned-movie movement, “Spider-Man” is successful in delivering an action packed, special effects filled blockbuster that keeps the audience entertained for almost the entire movie.

The movie follows pretty closely to the comic book series. Tobey Maguire plays Peter Parker, a nerdy high schooler getting ready to graduate. During a field trip, he is bitten by a radioactive spider and discovers he has super powers.

-Kirsten Dunst plays Mary Jane Watson,whom Parker has had a crush on nearly his entire life. Normally, love stories have no place in a non-stop action movie such as this, but director Sam Raimi somehow makes it work.

Willem Dafoe plays Norman Osborn, who has multiple personalities, one of them being the evil Green Goblin. For most of the movie, Parker has no idea that Osborn is the Green Goblin, and vice versa.

One of the things that makes this movie work is the fact viewers actually can relate to the superhero. Unlike in other comic book films like “Batman,” where Bruce Wayne is this rich, powerful guy whom nobody really knows anything about, Peter Parker is someone everyone can relate to, in some sense. He is just a normal kid trying to make it through school and work.

At first glance, viewers may think the two-disc DVD will give them hours of eight legged enjoyment, but think again. Most of the extras included are dull and boring, and the few good ones include commentaries with the special effects department as it explains how certain scenes were shot.

For instance, in the scene in which Parker examines his newly-muscular body in the mirror after being bitten by the spider, they didn’t use Tobey Maguire’s actual body. Due to the magic of technology, Maguire’s head was carefully digitally inserted onto someone else’s body.

In the scene where Norman Osborn is in the chamber filling with green smoke as he transforms into the Green Goblin, the green smoke actually is white during the time of shooting. Again, the magic of special effects turned that smoke green in post-production.

Also, for all the comic book lovers out there, there’s a whole section of extras just for you

If you enjoy little facts like these, you might enjoy the commentaries and a “VH-1 Pop-Up Video” style feature that give us little facts about the film, its stars and the comic book.

As mentioned before, not all the extras are interesting. There is a music video for “Hero,” the movie’s theme song, that has been seen a million times on MTV and a gag/outtake reel that is simply not funny or interesting. The behind-the-scenes feature merely shows us scenes from the movie again as it points out obvious bits of information.