Not so amazing...

Rating: 1/10 (15 June 2013)

It IS amazing that every filmmaker who comes down the pike feels the need to reinvent the wheel when it comes to the origin story of the superhero whose franchise they've just taken over; that's known as needlessly spinning one's wheels. What's even more surprising is when the origin has been done so often that viewers know it by rote, but the latest director to take up the reins fouls it all up. That's what happens here: it's almost as if English weren't even their SECOND language. I mean, how hard can it be to rechew one's cud (which is pretty much all these remakes are, anyway)? There are some neat fx shots, but little else (and WHERE did they get this kid, anyway- was he somebody's nephew or something? What were his credentials?). THE NOT-SO-AMAZING SPIDER-MAN has to be one of the weakest Big Budget superhero movies to come down the pike since The Big Boom began. You'd think that the money men could make better choices.