Different but just as good

Rating: 8/10 (8 July 2012)

I am a huge fan of the last Spider-man trilogy, as well as most superhero stories, and kind of hoped during the past few years that the trilogy was changed to a quadrilogy with a fourth movie with Tobey Maguire in the red and blue. With this being the case I was unsure how I would feel about this effort so I decided to try and cast the previous trilogy out of my mind. This was difficult as the Spider-man story was not in need of a re-boot in the same manner of Batman or The Incredible Hulk, I feel that the trilogy of the past decade were more than satisfactory.
I was pleasantly surprised as this movie looks slightly deeper into Peter Parker's past that what has been told before. It has certainly more story than action, which fans of the previous trilogy may not be appreciative of. However, here we have a good cast, plenty of humour, a great story and a satisfactory script. I do think Andrew Garfield is a great choice for the main role and has a difficult task as he story requires more acting skills than before. There is less CGI and more humanity this time around.
I do think this movie does for Spider-man what Batman Begins did for that franchise and it would be fantastic to see a second movie of the same quality as what Christopher Nolan produced.
Fans of the comicbook story should appreciate this as it is much more faithful to the original story than ever before.
If you watch this without comparing it to the previous trilogy, you will enjoy it much more. This is because it is as removed from the previous trilogy as it can be. The villain here could have been better in my opinion but, lets be truthful, the Scarecrow was not the best pick for the Batman trilogy either.
I like the new suit here too.