Funniest Spiderman Yet

Rating: 4/10 (31 August 2012)

A friend of mine who had seen this movie with her brother asked me to go see it with her when it came to the dollar theatre in our town so she could "watch my reaction". We then proceeded to spend most of the movie laughing.
While I would still rank it above Spider-Man 3, The Amazing Spider-Man had a lot of forced acting, cheesy lines, and overall corniness. Of course, any superhero movie is expected to be a little corny (with a few exceptions) but this movie took it to the extreme. And the soundtrack had some oddities that only added to the unintentional comedy. At the point where the Lizard is running through the lab, the music jolts and it sounds like he's jumped on a giant floorboard piano like the one in Big. And at times, the rest of the soundtrack may make you feel a bit like you should be wary of iceberg's ahead.
The Lizard's appearance was more comical than terrifying and no explanation was every given why Spider-Man managed to keep his powers and his mind after receiving an unregulated bite while the Lizard lost control and changed into, well, a giant lizard.
Other gaping plot points include Dr. Osborn who is talked about but never seen or explained, what happened to Uncle Ben's killer, and how exactly the Lizard was involved in Richard Parker's death (presumably this is a topic for a sequel). However, the one person Spider-man is seen actually saving is a little boy who I assumed was there to show that the people were starting to love Spider-man even if the police did not. But that was actually a new plot point involving further corniness as a path is create for Spider-man to go through the city and get to Oscorp. Because apparently the cure to having a bullet in the leg is to have people move machinery for you.
Overall, as I said, better than Spider-man 3 but I can't say much more for the hipster Spider-man in The Amazing Spider-man. You can tell they were trying to tell a different story but broke a little too much from the stock, geeky Peter Parker who rarely shed his mask for fear of hurting the ones he loved (something this Peter Parker seems to care little about). It's worth a watch but be prepared to laugh.