Good special effects but nothing to get exited about

Rating: 5/10 (24 May 2013)

Well I have to say, this wasn't a horrific movie , (it wasn't a great one either). I rather liked Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker and thought he brought more of a 'comicy', lighthearted feel to the role. I suppose it was inevitable that we had to go through all the clichéd bullying scenes where poor wimpy Parker is beaten up by the most stereotypical bully known to man (I felt very sorry for Chris Zylka who played the bully, Flash Thompson, I don't know Zylka from a hole in the ground but I think he should give the scriptwriter and director a good roughing up for making him cough up such corny, done to death lines and scenes ). Another inevitability was all the bright, shiny, futuristic technology at Oscorp, the lab of Dr Curt Connors, Parker's father's former partner and the stereotyped human/animal gene splicing caper but I suppose there's not much to be done about that if one wants to stick to the original Marvel Spiderman theme, I just felt it could have been portrayed more subtly and less unoriginally.
It was fun to see Spiderman swinging from the skyscrapers and saving people left right and centre and all those reptiles skittering about but, yet again, the cops aversion to the 'vigilante' AKA Spiderman was portrayed in such a hackneyed way it made me want to scream. There's 'sticking to the original story' and there's writing and directing with a complete lack of creativity and I'm afraid The Amazing Spiderman falls into the latter category. So, all in all, lots of fun bits and good special effects but nothing whatsoever to get excited about.