The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
Directed by Marc Webb
Starring Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone and Rhys Ifans
Peter Parker is a school boy living with the grief of his parent deaths while at the same time trying to have a normal life. When he finds a clue to his parents work he follows the trail which leads him to Oscorp. One room he stumbles upon contains some radioactive spiders which leads to one biting him and gaining spider like abilities. On the opposite side to Peter is Dr. Curt Connors, a man who worked with Peters father, and is trying to work out how to regrow the arm he has lost by using cross species genetics. Things don’t go according to plan leading Peter having to use his new abilities to stop Dr.Connors.
Yes this film is a remake of sort of the Spider-Man of 2002 but told in a slightly different way. Andrew Garfield starring as Peter Parker/Spider-Man was fantastic. He had the lanky, geeky aspect of Peter Parker along with the cockiness of Spider-Man down to a tee and what you would expect, not the short and smarmy look of Toby McGuire. Probably the biggest change between the films is the love interest. We have no Mary Jane in this, instead we have Gwen Stacey, who did make an appearance in Spider-Man 3, but this time is played by Emma Stone. She is quite simple stunning in the film wearing short skirts and knee high boots throughout. Also a mention must go to Rhys Ifans who portrays Dr.Curt Connors as a great mentor slash nemesis for Peter.
Recommend
Fans of the other Spider-Man films will love this. Yes it’s only been 10 years and some people think that it is a bit soon to start all over again but once you have seen this you will agree that making this was a great idea and that it will hopefully lead to some great sequels. And who knows, if the studios can come up with some sort of truce perhaps one day we will see Spidey joining the rest of the Avengers on the big screen. Go see this film, you will love it.
TheFriedGold rating – 3.5/5 – Got my Spidey sense tingling!
Film Fact
The original plan was for the Oscorp building in the film to be in the Sky line in the final battle in Avengers Assemble. This did not take place but shows that someone is trying to work on getting these guys all together.
thefriedgold 
Yeah it was good, felt this is the movie we should have had ten years ago. Garfield makes a much better Spidey/Parker than that other douche; I just think they’ve made Parker a lot more how I imagine him to be, rather than the looser buffoon of the Raimi trilogy.
It did feel really slow going through all the origin again though, I was impatient for him to be Spider-Man already. Hopefully now all this is out of the way they can really get down to business in the sequel.
Positives – smashing cast, Stone and Garfield were great together, and I love her boots. Loved the first person shots. Music was top notch, classic Horner. Couple of good battle scenes, but the action does take the back seat to the emotion. Good humour in it, nice to see Spidey having some witty quips which was something sorely missing from the Raimi ones.
Negatives – parker cries a lot, hopefully this is all over with now. The crane scene was utterly cringe. Thought the Lizard was a little weak, his CGI a little dodge from time to time.
Does anyone else wish they would make the Stan Lee cameo’s not so in your face? Massive respect to the guy as it’s down to him that we have all these great characters, but I preferred it when you had a ‘blink and you miss it’ Hitchcock style cameo, thinking of Spidey 2 as a good example. It just takes me totally out of the movie to see him too much, as I’m not looking at an amiable doddery librarian but I’m looking at Stan Lee, and it drags me straight back into the real world.
Rant aside, a solid movie that promises much for the future – 3 out of 5 for me.
The cast was good and the spidey humour was nice to have.
I thought the Lizard looked ok. Not as bad as some cgi we have had in the past.
The Stan Lee cameos dont bother me that much. Its just become one of those thing where you know he will pop up. Perhaps this cameo was a bit too much in your face but overall i dont mind.
And thanks i forgot to put my rating in. Will edited the main blog. Cheers
p.s emma stone was so hot