Incredible!! Can't Wait for more !!

Rating: 8/10 (6 July 2012)

I'm extremely surprised that I am seeing so many awful reviews on this site and I really needed to created an account JUST so I can add my opinion to this review and hopefully be more of help.
PLEASE NOTE: The Original Spider-Man movie (2002) has an IMDb rating of 7.4 and Spider-Man 2 has an IMDb rating of 7.5 and Spider-Man 3 has a 6.3 ... So far The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) has a 7.8 rating ... so anyone who says the ratings are lower than the originals shame on you! So, With that said ...
WARNING: This MAY contain Spoilers!! You've BEEN WARNED!!...
First and foremost let me state that the cast and crew really did a fantastic job bringing these characters to life. Andrew Garfield is a much better Peter Parker than Toby ever was, and I realize that now. Though I did enjoy the 1st and 2nd Spider-Man movies by Sam R. I will say that after watching this current rendition and actually looking back at the originals I was actually more bored with the Originals!! Everything looked and felt dated from the fighting, to the CGI, to the stale acting... Seriously Toby made Peter Parker look like a pale, cry baby, that always got weak in the knees about MJ, and Kirsten D. was NOT a very good MJ, a lot of the acting in those movies felt flat. However THIS cast really soars and the two incredible up and coming actors Garfield and Stone really really shine and their chemistry is FAR superior to anything Peter and MJ had in the Raimi movies.
As for the Plot: SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SAYING IT'S THE SAME MOVIE AS THE FIRST!??? ... This is REALLY not the case at all!!... Raimi's Spider-man took peter from 30 minutes of being in high school to the rest of the movie living in Manhattan and working for the daily bugle and attending college ... NONE OF THIS IS IN "THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN"... This origin centers entirely with Peter living with his Aunt and Uncle and attending high school, he is a teenager, and he does not work for the Bugle. Also, though there are similar plot points (I counted anywhere between 4-5 similarities) everything was done with a twist, and even the dialogue was very different. When I expected the whole "With great power comes great responsibility line" I was pleasantly surprised that Uncle Ben never says that to this Peter, and says it in his own way that sounds less cheesy in my opinion and something that our own relatives would say to us while growing up and running into hard times. Even the way Uncle Ben dies is completely different (but the similarity does lie in the fact that Peter let's a thief go). And the set pieces are different as well (except for the bridge seen which IS in the original but then again like I said it plays out differently and I thought of it more as paying tribute to the original rather than trying to out shine it).
And there are also little nods to the comics in the way Spidey's costume: he has mechanical web-shooters which is how it was originally intended in the comics, there is even a scene that shows Spidey in the sewer drain and trying to use the webs but it fails, which hints at the fact that Spider-man's weakness is being in WATER! And the way peter gets bitten by the spider is different as well and the circumstances surrounding it is completely different (hint: it's not a field trip). Basically, when this movie wanted to be similar it did it but with a twist, and when it wanted to be different it found ways of being different and telling a new story. (Comic books do this ALL the time, there are hundreds of re-tellings in the comic book world!)
In addition, the villain is different, Gwen Stacey (Peter's first love NOT MJ) is here and they shine together (they react to one another like real teenagers do and I kind of got sent back to my youngin' days lol), the action is more fun and engaging (the IMAX 3D was incredible for this movie), and Spidey's smart-mouth-charm and finesse really comes out through Garfield's performance. The CGI is great too and is much more modern and fresh. I've heard complaints that the CGI is not very realistic and I was left dumbfounded at how someone could really think much of ANY CGI IS realistic!! The only quality CGI I've ever seen was in either the Lord of the Rings or Rise of the Planet of the Apes! And those movies were done by complete motion capture experts (Academy renowned too). And, comparing this movie to The Avengers is a bad call because The Avengers was an action explosion with superheroes that had their own movies and character developments before being thrown together (and by the way that CGI wasn't convincing either yet that movie is a hit anyway I digress).
Look the point is, this movie is incredible, it is fresh, it is NOT the same as the first spider-man movie! It is more true to the comics than that movie was. With the great attention to character development, the charm, the emotion, and the fun that is portrayed I walked out of the theater wanting more! No matter what I, nor any one else says, you owe it to yourself to watch this film and make your own judgment.
I really hope this review helps!!