Your Average Big-Budget Action Movie

Rating: 6/10 (17 July 2012)

Let me preface this by saying that if you're a Spider-Man fan, or a mid-pubescent male, you will enjoy this movie. I'm neither, but I can objectively say that this is not a "must see" film. However, I ended up seeing it twice and shucking out about 20 bucks in the process. I got what I expected. I just didn't expect very much at all.
I'm not a huge superhero fan, but some friend's wanted to see it, so I tagged along. Occasionally these sort of movies pleasantly surprise me, as was the case in The Dark Knight. Unfortunately, this movie is exactly what I expected; a few hours of thrilling action shots and engrossing fight scenes.
Like most films of this genre, the story line was sub-par, but they managed to pace it rather well. On the other hand, the screen-writing was actually pretty horrid. It featured boring and stereotypical scenes, corny wisecracks, and was really repetitive in some parts. Sometimes these repetition really took away from the advancement of the story line, which made an average story broken and disconnected. It just didn't come off as a very well put together movie.
But I'm not going to sit here and act like I have some exceedingly delicate movie-viewing pallet. I enjoyed it for what it was. Like I said, the action and special affects were entertaining, and the chemistry between Peter and Gwen (Garfield and Stone) really shown through out the entire movie. The characters were also well rounded, the only thing that keeps me from putting a price on the writers heads. Even the bully and the villain were real people.
The saving grace of this movie: How good looking the lead actors were. As a guy, I can say that Emma Stone looks kind of hot as this sweater-wearing high school intellectual. And the ladies were probably all over Garfield. So good job Marvel! You can't hire writers, but you can hire hot actors!