Perhaps unnecessary, definitely not bad, terrible pre-spoiling though

Rating: Null/10 (6 July 2012)

It had been a while ago since I'd seen the trailer and the previous movies. I had watched the original trailer when it first came out and I forced myself to not watch it again nor to watch anything slightly related to this movie for that I figured the trailer showed far too much.
It turned out worse, as the trailer apparently happened to have burned itself into my memory and actually turned out to show the entire story. On top of that, the parts you did not see in the trailer were in the first movie which, while watching the first minutes of this movie, called itself up in my memory too. This made this movie terribly predictive. The plot to the "I'm in trouble" joke, who the villain would be, the love story, on top of the original story.. indeed.. story-wise there was not a single surprise. They played it safe.. actually far too safe.
That said, if this is the first Spiderman movie you are watching and you are sure to have forgotten most of the trailer, then this movie deserves a 8.5. It'd be very enjoyable then. Much more so then it was for me.
Now up to my major complaints apart from it being overly predictive.
Andrew Garfield was a terrific Spiderman (that's a big plus) but he was not a very good Peter Parker. As much as I like Andrew portraying his characters in other movies, he is just not quite as attractive as Peter, and perhaps because he is just too attractive as a human being.
Basically, the Peter Parker Andrew portrays is a handsome and super smart guy who takes good care of himself and stands up for the weak when necessary. Therefore, he doesn't have a reason to be as over-the-top shy as he is apart from being extremely introvert and having to deal with a trauma of losing his parents ages ago. Not quite convincing.
Tobey, on the other hand, actually was the weak guy himself, the one Andrew would have stood up for without needing to have Spidey powers. He therefore much more deserved to be Spiderman. You felt sorry for him and you attached to him. I think that is also the reason why in most polls I have seen, Tobey seems to score much better than Andrew as Peter Parker.
Secondly (or actually thirdly), Peter Parker becomes as strong as the Hulk (and that is not an exaggeration). This, however, didn't help him a single bit in the rest of the movie. There is a funny basketball scene in which he merely uses his spider senses and sticky fingers and as Spiderman he merely fights with speed and web shooters (which actually looked a bit too fashionable for the Peter in this movie too). He could and should have done much more with his strengths. And his web shooters just did not ever run out or have issues (I wonder if they even had cartridges but the movie went far too less over the technical aspects of Spider-man to make this clear even a single bit, though there definitely was room for it).
Apart from the above, this was a solid, good movie. It catches the emotions well, all actors performed to the best of their abilities (great thing, no sarcasm), it is just that although I went with no expectations, all of the memories called for by the movie, from the trailer and previous movies, actually made this a very mediocre experience, stuck at a solid 7 out of 10 at most.