To all the bad, over written, over analyzed, reviews of the Tempe Marketplace: Your in f"n Tempe for chr*st sake, get over it.
This place is an awesome magnum opus of modern day corporate capitalism - I love it.
If you need more stuff and trust me (loooook into my eyes) "you do need more stuff", then this is the place to go. They have taken every cultural trend that can possibly be squeezed out of our generation and puked it all up into one enormous strip mall. If you can't find something that you enjoy in this place then you are just, simply put, "un-American" (in fact you're probably a terrorist).
I could spend my whole weekend at this place. The flat, hot and boring landscape of Tempe should be absolutely honored to have a place like this to go to.
I'm looking forward to my big sushi meal at the Kabuki in about 1 hour' Mmmmmmmm mmmm good... And since I have to walk by almost every store while getting my lost *ss through the well planned labrynth and back to my car I just might stop a bit to spend too much money on a pair of Levis, a couple new super-trendy T's, maybe a pair of Oakleys. Ooooh! maybe the new Transformers movie is playing at the theatre there.