Left me cold

Rating: Null/10 (17 May 2014)

There's something about this one that left me cold - uninvolved.
But first: if you haven't seen it yet, stay through the final credits - all of them. There's a trailer that's really a preview of a new X-Men movie.
This time around, Stan Lee is easy to spot. He even gets a speaking line. I wonder if they paid him scale......
After a few giant monster movies, the genre gets old. I saw nothing new and interesting about this movie's monsters. Big, nasty, powerful - yawn, been there, done that.
There's an interesting contrast between Parker/Spiderman and Wayne/Batman: Batman comes from a wealthy family (and has Michael Caine as a Number Two), lives in a mansion; Parker and his aunt are barely getting by, live in an apartment.
The spider-silk acrobatics are too far out to be believable. Each journey through the city (always conducted at altitude) takes at least 23 times his own body weight in silk thread.
On the other hand, the special effects are great. Downtown New York has been destroyed in so many movies, it's a wonder anybody stays there.
The local theater where we saw it dropped the 3D version early. I asked the manager about that; he said hardly anybody went to that one. I wonder of the thrill of 3D is wearing off.
Bottom line: I'd go for the special effects, not the story.