Too Dark

Rating: 2/10 (4 November 2012)

Don't let the title fool you, "The Amazing Spider-Man" isn't as dark as the Batman movies, but still, it's too dark for Spider-Man. The first three had it right, Spider-Man is supposed to be lighthearted fun, a story about a nerd that has to make wise cracks to keep his sanity in the super hero game. Even as an adult he's still a nerd and still hasn't exactly grown up.
At least this keeps the nerd element. But most of the action is dark, again, too dark for the source material. And his teenaged years, they kept the nerd, but tried too hard to make you feel his inner pain. It's one thing to try to make the audience feel sorry for Peter Parker, but it just feel wrong to turn the story as much into a drama as they did.
There's nothing campy about this, and what humor there is falls short.
It was too soon for a reboot, and this one is lacking, they turned the Spider-Man story into something it isn't and as a result it's too hard for the awkward comic book loving dork to really identify with the character.