Good, but not "Amazing!"

Rating: 7/10 (5 July 2012)

Now I am in two minds about this movie. I did enjoy it. But at the end off the day I think "The amazing Spiderman" is just, well, "Spiderman."
There is nothing truelly "amazing" or even that different about this movie when compared to the others. The only things that will make it perhaps a bit better to some are its leads. Andrew Garfield is a great choice to play the character, and having Gwen Stacy as his love interest seems to have fans happier than they were before, with Emma Stone doing a decent job. Altogether the romance here is sweeter, funnier and more believable. But is that really what people wanted from a "Spiderman" reboot? The Biggest complaints I heard about the original trilogy were that they were too soppy. And it looks like instead off getting away from that here, they are going to delve even further into it in this new series.
So they've improved it where it didn't need improved. The Story desperately tries to retell the origins as differently as possible, but it still turns out as overly familiar. There's some decent action, but you'll be waiting a while (We have to get through the whole origin story again remember) and the villain is OK but could off been done way better. Just like the villain in the original "Spiderman" film then?
What I think saves "The Amazing Spiderman" though is it's sense off humour. Its pretty funny, and you can tell there's a lot off effort been put into making it what it is. Even though I still can't get over the feeling that they've restarted the series way too early. If they'd just made "Spiderman 4" with different actors it would off probably had the same effect. When I heard a kid saying "they ignored the other movies" on the way out. I knew I still wasn't alone in thinking this.