Disappointment

Rating: 1/10 (24 July 2012)

(why the spoiler tick? isn't that a given in reviews?)
First of all when I saw the trailer/teaser I was already disappointed seeing that this spider-man had to rely on tech for his web-slinging. That has always been something that bothered me in the spider-man stories so I was happy with the previous movies where they did not "cripple" spider-man in that fashion. Makes no sense a spider/man hybrid with no "natural" web-slinging abilities. Also compared to spider-woman, spider-man is quite weak, the reliance on tech only ads to this weakness (they should have been more or less equal). In general I've always been hoping that he would somehow become stronger so the Venom story was great in the beginning, disappointing later on though, it just couldn't be a blessing, it had to be a curse. But all the bruises in this movie made him look even weaker than ever.
Why they chose "lizard-man" as the villain? I don't get it, that has always been a rather unpopular/boring character. They could have chosen so much more fun adversaries. Mysterio for instance (great for the big screen with all the illusions, especially in 3D). Also what makes no sense with this villain, that he loses his arm when reverting back to human. If you regrow a limb and then mutate to a lizard-man why would that new arm then mutate back into oblivion?
I much rather would have watched a 4th spider-man movie with madam-web for instance and maybe some story lines from one of the better games.
If you ask me the whole Gwen Stacy + high school doesn't really fit. Not with MJ as a neighbor (I assume that's still the case even though it's not mentioned).
By the way, I might have missed it as I occasionally "dosed off" but where the hell was the phrase "with great power comes great responsibility"?