Same old song and dance

Rating: 1/10 (20 June 2015)

Call me a Tobey Maguire/Sam Raimi fan-boy all you want, but at least Sam Raimi had a lot of love and respect for the character! Clearly no one had any when they were making these two God-awful movies! To begin with, I've been a fan of Spider-Man pretty much all my life, and to call THIS a Spider-Man movie is like calling a pile of dog vomit "abstract art"! What I've come to realize, is that that these movies were just poorly put together so that Sony could hold onto to the rights to Spider-Man, and squeeze out whatever money that the character could make for them. I would usually start out a review with things I liked about the film, but that's the problem, there weren't any! I couldn't stand Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker/Spider-Man! To me, he came off as a giant douche, and not at all like the shy, awkward, but lovable character was in the comics! Martin Sheen and Sally Field were okay as Uncle Ben and Aunt May. The problem is however, that they're barely used! That's right, Uncle Ben and Aunt May, arguably the most important characters in the Spider-Man mythology, ARE JUST BACKGROUND CHARACTERS!! Not to mention, the phrase: "With great power comes great responsibility." is heard nowhere in the film. Emma Stone's "Gwen Stacy" has no depth to her character. She's just Peter's Girlfriend and eye candy. As for "The Lizard" he plans on turning everyone in New York into Lizards. Why? Just because. I'm not even gonna go into the plot, because aside from a few tweaks here and there, it's the exact same plot from Sam Raimi's first Spider-Man movie. I was hoping for so much more from this film, I'd hoped that by starting anew, that Sony would break new ground with Spider-Man. Unfortunately, all I got was the same old story with a new coat of paint slapped on it. This movie was a huge disappointment, but the biggest disappointment would be it's sequel. (Review coming soon!)