This Should be The Amazing Walk to Remember!

Rating: 5/10 (18 July 2012)

This is my first review on IMDb and it makes sense if I start writing with a Franchise that I have been so personally attached with since my childhood. Spiderman! I have read the comics, seen the cartoon on Television and even watched Sam Raimi's version of the films. Undoubtedly, Marc Webb's version of the franchise is different from earlier version seen before. Here, the nerdy Peter Parker has a camera in his hand which makes him popular in school. He has balls to take on Flash on his own when he bullies a kid. Is this really Peter Parker?? Such a character change is unacceptable for ardent followers of the franchise coz' over the years we have learnt to understand Peter Parker as one of us : a scared nerd with no balls to tackle our bullies. Even as Spiderman, Andrew Garfield character fails as the audience is left to wonder why would spiderman go around showing himself to kids, his GF and the cop whose sole aim in life is to arrest him. Too trusting, eh? The scene where he asks a kid to wear a mask that would give him strength is silly and outright farfetcted, to say the least. Even as we are sucked into this story of spiderman, we are bitterly disappointed by the utterly insipid romance of the protagonists which certainly takes most of the screen space. This is not a thriller but a romantic movie. The Amazing Walk to remember. But the biggest disappointment is The Lizard who is confused whether he wants to attack the city or kill spiderman. He starts with former, goes on to do the latter w/o completing the former, then again goes back to former w/o completing the latter. Plus there seems no motive for him to attack spiderman in school. Spiderman survives and yet he goes on to spread the virus. What's the reason for the attack? Seriously Webb could have done a better job with this with little more background check on the franchise.