Spider-Boy

Rating: 5/10 (13 January 2019)

Pretty much this movie should be called spider-boy because the guy playing him looks and acts way too young and most things about spider-man have been reimagined here. This is ok and I have no problem with it, I left my perceptions of spider-man at the door when I watched this at the cinema and accepted that some things about the character might need to be reinterpreted for a new younger audience, but really calling it spider-boy may actually have been a better idea
The effects for me are not as good in homecoming as they were in the amazing spider-man which as a past collector of the comic books is the closest movie I have seen to the spider-man I know, and that movie had great actors nearly across the board. Really Emma Watson and Andrew Garfield were in a different class. I found Tobey Maguire incredibly slow as spider-man and nowhere near sharp enough (although because doc ock was so perfect, spider-man 2 is still the best overall movie). In homecoming we get the other extreme which is a spider-boy that won't shut up
On second viewing I don't like this movie and find it irritating. The spider-man moving eyes are stupid, most of the acting in it is hammy and bad with the exception of Michael Keaton.. the vulture is really good and it is a pity that he wasn't in one of the previous movies
Overall not a good spider-man movie and hopefully another reboot will get things back on track in the future