My Spidey-sense is tingling...

Yesterday we had a bit of a lazy morning, after walking ourselves ragged the previous couple of days. We decided to catch a train over to Putney, where Pet stayed the first time she visited London, after reading in a London paper that Spiderman 3 was playing there.

So we caught the train over and did a spot of shopping before rocking up at the cinema to discover that the information in the paper was incorrect! The guy at the Odeon, who seemed very friendly and helpful at the time, gave us an Odeon guide so we could see where it was playing. We went and had a beer and checked out the guide and discovered that the two most convenient locations for us to see it would be either Wimbledon, at 5:00pm, or Kensington High St, at around 2:15pm.

Opting for Kensington, we jumped back onto the Tube. However, when we arrived at the Odeon Kensington, we were told by the girl there that Spiderman 3 was in fact NOT playing there that day and pointed out that the Odeon guide the guy at Putney gave us was from last week!

We were not impressed, Pet in particular, who, after I'd torn the guide in half, snatched it from my hands and threw it to the ground outside the cinema and quite loudly declared the situation to be "mailto:*&@#ing" That's my girl.

The poor girl behind the counter didn't know what to do. We asked her if we could get a bus to Bayswater, another Odeon cinema purpotedly showing Spiderman. She gave us some convoluted instructions on how to get the bus there and so we decided to hell with that, let's just get a cab.

So we hailed down a London cab and to my delight discovered that inside the cab was a tv and a remote control set into my armrest. I set it to a comedy channel and we got some good laughs from some English comedienne before arriving at the cinema.

Lo and behold this cinema was actually showing the damn film! So we bought our tickets, went for a wander in search of shoes, saw a couple of awful trannies, had a beer, bought some snacks and when 5:00pm eventually rolled around we finally got to see Spiderman 3.

So, after all that, a brief review of Spiderman 3. It was a lot easier to follow than Pirates of the Caribbean 3, which was a convoluted mess of subplots. Toby McGuire was suitably dorky, Kirsten Dunst was Kirsten Dunst and that cheeky Stan Lee made a cameo appearance, as is his wont.