Terrible character development - uneven, missing, etc.

Rating: 2/10 (6 July 2012)

There were so many times in this movie where characters and their relationships (as well as their reactions / behavior) appeared in scenes that appeared to be plopped in -- without the necessary preceding scenes for character/relationship development that would make it logical. Very weird - I felt as if I had walked out of the movie a number of times and missed important detail. Spiderman's relationship with the girl (in all stages), his reactions and acclimation to his new abilities, the school outcast -- just left me wondering how the screenplay got through. Thoroughly disappointing (and I usually give any superhero/mutant/etc. movie a great deal of latitude ... iow, it has to be really bad for me not to like it). On a lesser note, I was annoyed with the decision to go back to the comic book's idea of not having spiderman's web capabilities biological. I always thought that was an inherent flaw in the comic book and ... welcomed the tobey maguire movies where they made it biological. Anyway, I'll be skipping this particular franchise.