Amazing? Definitely!!

Rating: 9/10 (3 July 2012)

so, I saw The Amazing Spider-Man today, needless to say.. I gotta give my review on it.. For starters, I loved it. What we have in this movie is the mix of the 4 core Spider-Man comic titles, which are Peter Parker / Spider-Man, The Amazing Spider-Man, Web of Spider-Man and The Spectacular Spider-Man. For those that are NOT avid Spidey fans, let me explain. Peter Parker / Spider-Man comics was the series that dealt with more of Pete's personal life, The Amazing Spider-Man was were all the characters came together in a big mixing pot, Web of Spider-Man was where all the dark, nitty gritty happened and Spectacular Spider-Man is where all the action on Pete's personal level happened. That being said, ITS ALL in this movie. The movie feels like Web of Spider-Man, has the resolve of Amazing, the action and battle of Spectacular, and the personal story, straight from peter parker / Spider-Man Now, we all know that Spidey's story is and has always been about love for family, friends and the people he cares for.. Its all here in this movie. Andrew does a PHENOMAL job playing Pete and even resembles peter parker from the cover of amazing spider-man vol. 2 #37! Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy is AMAZING. nobody could have done a better job. She was PERFECT in every way, and her chemistry with Andrew is CRAZY! i can definitely see them working on more films together. (and I must admit, I may have dropped a few tears for them ) Rhys Ifans as Curt Conners / The Lizard was excellent as well. I really felt that he did his homework for the part, as he brought the character to life straight from the comics. (and yes, we get to see Lizard with his Labcoat :) ) Aunt May (Sally Field) and Martin Sheen (Uncle Ben) also brought more to their characters as well. (although aunt may's look seemed a little out of touch without her grey hair lol) Captain Stacy (Dennis Leary) has his due too! The entire movie from beginning to end keeps a great steady pace, and does NOT go overboard at the climax of the film but keeps you on the edge of your seat (just like spectacular comics) From the previews you've seen, we get to see Pete's parents, and yes even little petey in a flashback intro to the movie which leads up to a scene where while helping uncle ben in the basement, he comes across an old briefcase that used to belong to his dad...needless to say, he begins to investigate that ends up leading him to Curt Conners in an Oscorp lab. Spider-Man's origin, is untouched pretty much, (still bitten by a spider in a lab) Hilarity ensues upon discovery of his new abilities, and rest assured, the wise-cracking spidey IS in this movie, a lot! unlike the previous 3 spidey films, we get to see a vulnerable spidey, which in the past films he just seemed to "shrug" his hits and bruises off. Although not completely the same, but from this point on you get a feeling of the "Death & Destiny" story from the comics. The special effects are top notch! and I'm sure every pose you have ever seen Spider-Man do, IS IN THIS MOVIE!! From web slinging, to jumping, to diving, to flipping and catapulting! not only that, but when he shoots a web, you can see him push his arm forward as if he was "casting" a fishing line to give his web that extra push. You can see the webbing wobble as its shot, and you can actually FEEL the strength of his webbing just by looking at it. There's SO much more I want to say, but I have to let you all see it with your own eyes. As much as I love the previous trilogy (yes even the 3rd movie, lol) This movie made me realize how too big and bulky, sometimes clumsy feeling Tobey Maguire was as Peter.
I still hate the new suit though. haha
I highly recommend this movie to you all, including those that are big fans of Spider-man.
I give this movie a solid 4.5 out of 5 stars.
In closing, I hope that when and If you do see this film, you will enjoy it as much as I have.