Makes the previous outings looks like Batman Returns, Batman Forever and Batman & Robin respectively

Rating: 10/10 (11 July 2012)

I wasn't expecting much from this movie based on the previous three Spider-man movies. I had been hoping for a reboot of the franchise ever since I had seen the first Spider-Man movie 10 years earlier.
This movie gives us a Spider-Man that's much more true to the original comics. I wasn't at all surprised when Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man wasn't considered for inclusion in The Avengers. The previous three movies did nothing to boost his career, but I can expect to see a lot more from Andrew Garfield in the coming years and I would love to see him in the sequel to The Avengers. Emma Stone also manages to outshine Kirsten 'Dunce' as the love interest, but in all fairness, that's not terribly difficult for such a sub-par actress like Kirsten.
Even if this story had been done before, it certainly hadn't been given the respectful treatment that it had in this film. The 3D is this movie could hardly have been done any better. The common denominator in all the bad reviews, besides the fact that they were apparently written by 12 year-olds (seriously, read some of them) is that people simply didn't like the villain, therefore they complain about the CGI to try to give themselves credibility.
This is on track to be the movie of the year and not The Avengers.