It’s hard taking The Amazing Spider Man seriously, simply because having another Spider Man so soon after the last franchise ended is completely unnecessary. For this reason alone, the film is damaged from the start. The moral is the same. The story is very similar. The acting, tone, narrative and direction are all oddly repetitive. Andrew Garfield is a great Peter Parker, but just because he makes a great character, doesn’t mean that character needed to be brought back to life on screen so soon. In fact, everyone in their respective roles fill the shoes wonderfully.
You know the story. Parker is the dork, the photographer. He’s not the dumb jock. He’s not the guy who obviously gets the girl. He’s weak but righteous, timid yet smart, introverted yet artistic. His aunt and uncle raise him when his parents suddenly abandon him at the age of ten. Years later he’s a senior in high school and decides to investigate his father’s disappearance, ending up at his father’s former partner’s laboratory where he’s bitten by a radioactive spider. There’s also a guy who turns into a giant lizard. Been there, done that.
The story is familiar. That said, The Amazing Spider Man does the best job is possibly could reinventing a franchise that hasn’t even expired yet. It has a way of connecting that the other films didn’t quite have. We have something interesting here, because this truly is a better version of the Tobey Maguire Spider Man. Had we not just experienced three Spider Man flicks thrown at us in the last decade, this would be exceptional. But we’re fatigued. This franchise is a bit overstuffed.
I can’t blame anyone for thinking they can do a better job than someone who came before them. Granted, I’m sure Marc Webb (director) will just tell us he’s giving the public a different aspect of Spider Man, a different story. When truthfully, and obviously, he wants to one-up the previous. There’s nothing wrong with this, and he succeeds.
The Amazing Spider Man, had it come along just five years later, could have been tremendous. Instead, it’s a good summer flick made even better because of the choices. The casting here is perfect. The direction is wonderful, and thankfully it never gets overly cheesy like so many superhero flicks often do. (This is huge.)
While The Amazing Spider Man might be better than two out of three in the last franchise, it’s still the same Spider Man. “With great power comes great responsibility.” There’s only so many times we can learn this lesson. And there’s only so many times one can watch the same story play out, regardless of how new the cast is. Even if we’ve seen it all before, it’s still incredibly enjoyable.
B+
This movie sucked. Well shouldn’t say sucked but it was not good. Not exciting, not innovating, run of the mill, paint by the numbers boring predictable flick. Maybe this is the aftermath of how great the Avengers is, it’s raised the bar of comic book movies to a new level that this spiderman movie doesn’t come close to reaching.
At first when I heard they were going to reboot it, I was like what why? way to soon etc etc. But I saw the trailer and I was like okay looks interesting.
And then I heard/read that they were sticking much closer to the comic book spiderman.
So we all watched it, and I really liked it. Maybe because I love the whole concept of finding out what happened to Peter’s parent and how that affected him. Though I do think it was a little bit slow, I was like when is he going to become Spiderman!? lol. So they could have gone a bit quicker on that part.
Overall I liked it. I really liked this Peter Parker better, I really liked his awkwardness and snarky attitude. And Andrew Garfield did a great job at it!!
Anyways, I think it was a different p.o.v of the spiderman story sure it was rebooted early, but honestly with all the superhero/comic book movies coming out they had to do it, I suppose. At least it was better than Superman Returns, which was just not good, even though I know it wasn’t an origin story…but that was just not good. (They should have just rebooted that one.)
And the Spiderman universe has so many comic book variations, that different movie variations I suppose were just bound to happen.
Anyways, I hope they can make the sequel really good! Maybe it will be like a Dark Knight thing!
I loved this movie, wayyy better than the Tobey Maguire ones in my opinion. He was a pretty good spiderman, but this was more true to the comics and the characters have a lot of chemistry with each other
This movie sucked. I’d give it about a D if I had to grade it. Such an unnecessary movie.