I thought The Amazing Spider-Man was a decent adaptation of the outstanding comic book character that focuses more on the character development of Peter Parker's realationship with Gwen Stacy and his hard journey on becoming Spider-Man than mixing character development with big, long and entertaining action scenes like Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire did with their outstanding trillogy.

The movie has a great story wittten by James Vanderbilt, Alvin Sargent and Steve Kloves about Peter Parker trying to solve the mystery of the disappearance of his parents and heading into a relationship with Gwen Stacy while batting The Lizard and learning what it real means to be a responsible person and hero but I was disappointed that the mystery of the disappearance of his parents was not sloved untill the sequel.

Andrew Garfield does a good job with the stunts in the action scenes as Tobey Maguire did but Andrew only had like 5 quips to say in this movie and Tobey's Peter Parker/Spider-Man said 27 quips in the first 3 movies but it's better than no quips at all and as Peter Parker he has a good relationship with Emma Stone.


But to me Peter Parker is a likeable academically brilliant but unpopular high school senior student who is bitten by a genetically modified spider and gains spider-like abilities who later became a superhero, a Columbia College physics student and photographer for The Daily Bugle as Tobey played him.

Andrew plays Peter as a selfish and ungrateful jerk who hates being responsible for the things he forgets to do and I hated that but the rest of the good cast do a fantastic job with their roles. I also hated Uncle Ben´s death scene because it lacked any sad emotions.

The Amazing Spider-Man is directed by Marc Webb and I thought he did a great job directing the scenes between Peter and Gwen as his did in another one of my all time favortie romantic comedy-drama movies (500) Days of Summer he does an impressive job directing the action scenes.

The special and visual effects and action scenes in this movie are cool, the message in this movie is strong and the music alright.

Despite that the story is disappointing and some of the acting performances are terrible the other acting performances, directing and the visuals make The Amazing Spider-Man worth watching but I still like the Sam Raimi/Tobey Maguire outstanding trillogy better because those movies were fun, lighthearted and very entertaining and they really defined what Spider-Man is all about.

I hope the sequels to The Amazing Spider-Man are better. I think the bad guy will be Mysterio.

So I give this movie a Matinee!

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