Not For Purists

Rating: 2/10 (23 April 2013)

I will not go so far as to say this is one of the worst films I ever saw, or even the worst ("Howard The Duck"), but if you are a "Spider-Man fan, you know that this story is not canon. Lets start here: Spoilers ahead: When Captain Stacy died (Amazing Spider-Man 91), it was after a battle with Doctor Octopus (Doc Ock), not the Lizard as was shown here. In fact, Stacy was much older then Denis Leary in the comic. Next, Gwen despised Spider-Man (Particularly after 91), in fact it led to the multi-armed armed Spider-Man (Peter Parker wanted to lose his powers). The Lizard did not look like the Lizard (No scales), and Norman Osborn is made to look like he was responsible for the death of Peter's parents. Osborn/Green Goblin, is responsible for a lot of things including the death of Gwen in Amazing Spider-Man 121, but not that. Nor was he aware of who was Spider-Man until much later. Here he is basically set up to be like "Blofeld" from James Bond, whose identity is a mystery until later on. Martin Sheen & Sally Field where far too young to be Aunt May & Uncle Ben, and even why Uncle Ben died (In Amazing Fantasy 15 (The first Spider-Man) it goes to the inability for Pete to collect money from wrestling because the check was made out to Spider-Man). The Special Effects were very good, which prevented me from giving it one or no stars, so I give it a generous 2 stars.