This is the story of
Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield), a photographer who is bit by a mutant spider
and….oh, wait, I guess you know all of that from the 2002 film Spider-Man. Yes, The Amazing Spider-Man revisits the origin story, again, just ten
years later. And it takes 136 minutes to work through it all again.
I wish that The Amazing Spider-Man would have taken a cue from a franchise like James Bond,
and introduced a new cast without putting the audience through another origin
retelling.
On the plus side; The
new director, (500) Days of Summer’s Marc
Webb (no pun intended), weaves an solid rom-com story with Garfield and the
amazing Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy. This is a slick Hollywood product, a
professionally-made film and generally likeable. But in the age of The Dark Knight series and The Avengers, another slick Spidey origin
movie was doomed to fall flat.
Simply
put: The new cast is
solid but I wish they would have skipped the origin and spun a new story.
Award
potential: My spider sense says “no”.
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