Ten years after Sam Raimi's movie, Sony needed to make another Spiderman film in order to keep the rigths from reverting back completely to Marvel. So, they nabbed current hotshot indy and music video director Marc Webb (500 Days of Summer), set the stage in 2012 unlike Raimi who tried meshing the 60's era Spiderman he grew up with, change the villain, promise an entirely new backstory on his origin (which they don't deliver), and you get - - -
The Same Damn Movie....just slightly more enjoyable. AND - - C. Thomas FRICKIN' Howell!! He's BACK, baby!!
The casting was a giant upgrade, even though Gwen Stacy was about as relevant as Mary Jane in which she was actually irrelevant but it gave us all a reason to stare at Emma Stone, but she went blonde for the role so that killed it for me. Andrew Garfield was a great Peter Parker who is actually the star of the film, Spiderman just beats people up.Tobey Maguire was all wrong from the beginning. It should have been Topher Grace from the beginning. Rhys Ifans as Dr. Curt Connors/The Lizard was wasted. He's a great actor who didn't get to do anything except make way for his CGI alter-ego. Sally Field was Aunt May. She needs her eggs.
Martin Sheen was the biggest elevation of character in casting. Cliff Robertson in Raimi's flick was a sensitive grandfather, Martin Sheen was a proud, stern uncle. Denis Leary played a cop. Big stretch, I know.
They promised an untold origin and that's exactly what you get with this movie, a promise that eventually there will be an untold part of Spiderman's origin revealed, but for now you get about five minutes of new material; other than that, it's the same old story.
The greatest thing about The Amazing Spiderman - - C. Thomas Howell is BACK, baby!!
Screw the trailer, this movie's got enough hype and money.
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