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...your child isn't yet ready for an Xbox, try the V.Smile. Its Smartridge library ($20 each, for ages 3 to 7) offers math, logic and word-skill lessons from familiar faces like Simba and Spider-Man. vtechkids.com...
What's the biblical import of, say, Spider-Man? "Peter Parker gives us all a chance to be heroic," says Erwin McManus, pastor of Mosaic, a Baptist-affiliated church in Los Angeles. "The problem is, we keep looking for radioactive spiders, but really it's God who changes us." What's the big idea behind The Village, according to the website movieministry.com "Perfect love drives out fear." Behind The Notebook? "God can step in where science cannot." And, gulp, Anchorman? "What is love?" If your minister floated those notions recently, it may be because movieministry.com provides homilies for Sunday sermons...
...this could just be the church's appropriation of Hollywood salesmanship: luring audiences with promises of a movie and some good talk, as the Journey's Searcy offered. Finding a Christian message in secular films like Catwoman and Spider-Man could be either a delusion or, as Jeffrey Overstreet, a critic for Christianity Today says, "a way of affirming that God's truth is inescapable and can be found even in the stories of people who don't believe...
...Bookended by a 40-ish Andy in the present day, the bulk of "The Death Ray" flashes back to the mid seventies when Andy attended high school and first found his powers. Like Spider-Man's alter ego Peter Parker, Andy's immediate family are all dead so he lives with an elderly relative, his grandpa, "Pappy." Unlike Peter Parker, though, he doesn't even have enough personality as a nerd to register with anyone except Louis, a whiny, hostile ego maniac ("Meeting me was the best thing that ever happened to you") with a shaggy, Prince Valiant-style...
Doffing an ill-fitting outfit not unlike the gawky, scrawny look of Steve Ditko's original Spider-Man, Andy, assisted by Louis, goes around looking for trouble. But unlike traditional superheroes who mete out righteous justice against inarguable criminals foisting their evil on the world, Andy lives in a more realistic world of pettiness and personal issues. So Andy and Louis are left to manufacture debatable opportunities for justice, like leaving a wallet on the street and waiting for someone to pick it up and try to keep the money. "What good is having a friend with super strength...