If you could erase Spiderman 3 from your memory, first two Spiderman movies were almost perfect. After third movie studio decided a reboot of the franchise and came up with The Amazing Spiderman. They changed everything, but kept all that was wrong with Spiderman 3. The result is less of a superhero movie and more of a love story. If I wanted to watch a love story I would not have chosen Spiderman. When I go for a superhero movie I expect some super action and I believe it was stupid of the makers to sacrifice action for the sake of parallel love track.
The Amazing Spiderman starts with a young Peter Parker being left to his uncle Ben's custody by his parents, who never come back. Search for his father's past leads him to Oscorp where he gets bitten by a genetically engineered spider and gains his superpowers. He then uses his new found powers to confront high school bully and impress his crush Gwen Stacy. When he decides to not stop a burglar, who ends up killing his uncle, he turn a vigilante searching for his uncle's killer. In a stupid move he hands over his father's formula, to Dr Curt Conners, probably the same person his father was trying to hide it from. The formula helps Dr Conners become a giant lizard, giving girls across the world more reason to be afraid of lizards. Now spidey takes it as his responsibility to save the world from the giant lizard. The climax fight is not very impressive and much less spidey-like.
While Andrew Garfield does a fine job as Peter Parker, I believe Tobey Maguire was a better Spiderman. Green Goblin and Doc Oc were more menacing than Dr Conners' giant lizard. On the positive side Gwen Stacy is much better than monotonous Mary Jane. Director Mark Webb leaves his mark on the scenes between Peter and Gwen but I would rather watch (500) Days of Summer again for that rather than look for those elements in a superhero movie. Also 3D experience in Big Cinemas sucks.
I am now waiting for The Dark Knight Rises, hoping Nolan will not disappoint.
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