Complete Garbage

Rating: 3/10 (27 February 2013)

OK first off let me say I am an old school fan of Spider-Man and have read all the comics since I was a kid. If you are like me stay as far away from this movie as possible. I do understand that they went the way of Ultimate Spider-Man and not the original so take this with a grain of salt and just remember this is my opinion. So for starters, again with the origin story!!?? If you don't know how Peter became Spider-man by now, you must have been just born or born under a rock and in either case they already covered it in the first Spider-man movie so no need to drag that out again, even in a re-boot and since the movie was about 30-45 minutes too long they could have easily left it out.
I will say the CGI of Spidey swinging around was great. The lighting and music was also fine. Thats where my love ends and where the horror starts. The costume was just plain horrible, as was the casting of Andrew Garfield as Peter, is this Spider-Man or Twilight? You could swap him and Patterson out and no one would notice, hell Patterson was even considered for this role so believe me when i say to Mr.Webb I will mark your words and I didn't not "love him as Peter Parker" as you said I would! Emma is an OK casting choice as Gwen but would have made a perfect MJ in Spideys world. Rhys Ifans was fine as Curt Connors but sadly the Lizard looks just brutal, he looks like a cheap knock off of Killer Croc from Batman comics and thats me being very nice. Uncle Ben and Aunt May were OK, as was Captain Stacey (but maybe should have been a little older if they cared about staying true to the comics.)
Now for Parker jumping and sticking to the roof of the train and in school showing off, making half court, jumping above the basket, slam dunks and throwing a football hard enough to bend a goal post... do people not think "hey there's a new super hero that can do that and all of a sudden this nerd kid can too??" Plus throw in the fact that the lizard attacks him in his own school, so whoever cant put 2 and 2 together should join the people who are fooled by Clark Kent throwing on some glasses to fool everyone. I just don't get it but all that being said I can live with it, what I cant and what is without a doubt the biggest pet peeve in every single superhero movie is the fact that they need to show the stars face instead of the mask, its called a SECRET identity!!! but yet the main bad guy, the main cop chasing him, and a girl he knew for like what, a week? all got to know by the end!! Ridiculousness!! The story line was average at best, they start off with the mystery of Peters parents leaving and then never really bring it up again and unless they are planning to do more with it in the sequels it was very unnecessary and again could have been left out to trim this movie down. The quick relationship of Gwen and Peter was laughable and just crammed together, something they could have built up instead of all this other fodder they put in, not saying more love story is the way to go in a super hero movie but could have been used to build the characters at the very least to make it more believable. As I said the small use of Aunt May and Uncle Ben was fine,they are supporting characters and thats just what they did. The Lizards plot to turn everyone into hybrids is also OK and has been done lots in the cartoons and comics so no real problems there.
I really did have high hopes for this movie after the first 3 saddened me to no end but all this did was basically throw dirt on the grave. I've been waiting almost 40 years for a good Spider-Man movie and with the great characters in his world I find it hard to grasp why they cant and hope I don't have to wait another 40 to finally get my wish, I will always love the comics and one day hope someone with my love for the original characters and story lines will bring that to the screen.