Reboot failure...

Rating: 4/10 (1 July 2012)

First of all I love the original spiderman. Tobey Maguire is great as spidey/Peter Parker. Even though the films are quite dated now with regards to special effects...it followed the story i know about spiderman much better than this movie.
The sad part is...it uses plenty of elements from the original story but they simply jumbled up the plot and worked it out quite badly storywise. So it is quite disappointing. I mean the scene how Uncle Ben dies....is quite silly. How PP gets bitten by the spider....not as good as the original. How he confesses to being Spiderman so quickly.
I was quite shocked that this is a marvel movie and also endorsed by Stan Lee. I mean spideys beginning is a classic story, just like Batman and Superman's. You can do reboots...but YOU MUST NOT CHANGE THE BASIC PRINCIPLES. And if you change it a bit...it must do the original story justice.
To bad really because it started quite interesting and the special effects are awesome and a huge improvement over the original series. Like the suit and also that he has to reload his webs. I guess they tried to explain how Spidey learns how to go webslinging. But wasn't worked out to well. The cast are mainly quite good...only Peter Parker is not that great. PP is a nerd, who turns into a smart aleck superhero when he wears his suit. The difference now is not that great. Tobey maguire did it much better.
Also again 3d was quite disappointing. Right now i feel 3d is just a money making machine and a way to protect the movies vs piracy. The colours are truly effected by wearing the 3d glasses and thats quite a pity.
IMO if you do 3d...make it look goodm, a true asset to the movie. i wont have problems paying extra for it.
So my conclusion it's quite entertaining movie, but lower your expectations and you won't be to disappointed.