Quite Amazing - Blend of great acting and mind-blowing CGI

Rating: 8/10 (4 July 2012)

The Amazing Spiderman (3D) Review -
Area - Score (Weightage)
Story - 7.0/10 (40)
Actors - 8.5/10 (30)
CGI - 9.0/10 (20)
Sound - 8.5/10 (10)
Overall - 8.0/10
Story -
The story is pretty straight forward - Peter Parker is left by his parents at a young age to be brought up by his uncle and aunt. One day he discovers his father's work case wherein he comes to know for the first time what his parents were working on all this while (Cross- genetics research). This is where his interest with Oscorp and his father's former co-worker Dr. Curt Connors starts. On his trip to Oscorp as a fake intern he gets bitten by a spider thus making him spider-man. Amazed with this, he decides to reveal his father's work to Dr. Curt Connors who then uses it to work on test mice to initial success and later is forced to perform human trials on himself. Both trials showed initial promise but cross-genetic size effects started showing up and Dr. Curt Connors turns himself into a lizard. The goal for Dr. Curt Connors is simple now, to use a powerful transmitter to transmit this dote into the atmosphere thereby making everyone in New York into this new species and the rest of the movie is completely based on Spidey stopping him from committing this crime. In parallel, Spidey falls in love with Gwen Stacy, Dr. Curt Connors's assistant at Oscorp and a police captains' daughter.
Good –
1. Amazing CGI, to be honest some scenes were just breathtaking. Technology is just remarkable nowadays. You won't feel bored anywhere in the movie.
2. The actors have also done a very good job, from Spidey being a shy, beaten up college kid, to Gwen being the girl everyone wants to date, to Peter's uncle, aunt and Captain Stacy trying to be good parents, to Dr. Curt Connors being a dedicated scientist, it's all there.
3. The occasional comic relief is welcome.
Bad –
1. They could have worked a bit more on the story by I guess this is just a restart to the series and they wanted to keep the facts straight. Also, it's a family movie that might have something to do with it.
2. Things just seemed a fast-paced at times; you could feel things falling in place a bit too early on. They could have put in an extra 10-15 minutes to slow thing down between 15-35 % into the movie even though the whole movie is 135 minutes long.
FYI - I found this to be better than the Avengers, maybe because my expectations were very high for Avengers (didn't even get close to it) compared to this one (much better than expected).