How the lizard should have looked!

Rating: 4/10 (25 October 2012)

The lizard should have looked like the recent incarnation in the Amazing Spiderman #633. Google it and see how awesome he is.
I hated the first trilogy. Mainly due to the dull Maguire/Dunst combo and AWFUL Power Ranger goblin suit.
This one started brightly. Garfield is a million times the Peter Parker that Toby Maguire was. A more modern, loner skater boi version who delivers his Spidey lines with a thousand times more conviction.
It rushed the origin, but I wasn't too bothered as I know it like the back of my hand now and felt that it didn't even really need to be explained again.
The real ratings-killer? The Lizard.
The Lizard was always going to be a challenge to bring to the screen. He was always going to come across as a second rate Son of Godzilla so in some ways I feel he was the wrong choice to kick start this reboot. The CGI and character design are just awful. Really poor. His face looks ridiculous, he's far too big and he should never have been able to talk (even if that goes against the comics). Every time he opened his CGI'd mouth I cringed. It was poor. He looked like something from a crappy 90's sci-fi flick.