Movie Review: The Amazing Spider-Man

Aaaaariiight, first movie review! And who better to start this out with than none other than Spidey himself... well not quite himself (get into that in a sec).

Introducing... The Amazing Spider-Man!

Ya know I had quite a few ideas on how to do this. I was thinking doing the whole checklist type deal but when I think who the heck am I kidding, that just wouldnt be me. So lemme just break it down to the readers good ol water-cooler style!



So this movie is a reboot of movie that just end about 5 years ago. A bit too early if you ask me but then again how long did it take for that Hulk reboot? Either way, half of the movie I was enjoying it while the other half was trying to figure out why they made the movie in the first place? They told the same story and with a lot of small changes but the changes were really silly! The roundabout way he found the spiders, the way uncle Ben died and the angst that developed afterwards all seemed silly.
Now I really didnt care for Toby McGuire take as Spider-man but he did marvels(hah!) when compared to "Eric Sullivan"(A. Garfield) in this one. In the begining, they set up the whole deal about the parents and thier big "secret past"! Now when watching this I'm excited because they're exploring a part of the comics that wasnt explored in the movie. However as the ball began to roll I realized that I forgot about that whole plotline... Why? Oh because it seemed so did the movie! That story is left for the birds in the later half  of the movie and Spiderman ends up becoming a famliar story re-done but done differntly just to be different. The vibe between Gwen Stacy and Peter Parker was truly unbelibavble and I guess we're supposed to see that cool charming relationship in the next movie but for now it just seemed a bit forced. I really wanted the complex bond showed in the previous Spiderman(NOT the 3rd one!) but instead it was merely these two geeking out over each other and then fast-forwarding to becoming a trusted item...and then...not?
I enjoyed the Lizard but not really the actor, his motivations changed on a dime from helping people to making a race of Lizards. The CGI of him was cool but of course nowhere near the coolness of the cartoon. Now Andrew Garfield brought a different spin to spiderman which was the angst spin. The spin was like, "argh! You killed my uncle now I'm gonna hunt down the douche! Oh Uncle Ben said to be responsible, but no- I'm pissed! Argh I'm so misunderstood- I have power now and it gives me a license to be a douche!".......
Okay so a bit dramatic but you get the idea...
Now it is more realistic of someone his age, but its just not a good Spider-man, the new flow didn't work for me.
That being said, the fights scenes were cool and entertaining.The writing wasnt terrible just not really good. I may have hated the Green Goblin "super-armor" in the first Spider-man but at least that villain had those cool lines that worked for him. Small fanservice things like the mechanical web-slingers was something that could have been left either way seemed there just make another point of being separate from the previous movies.
In the end it was only the cool action sequences that brought anything positively new to the table. Everything else was a different but different in a way that would prompt the question - "Why did you change that?"