The Amazing Spider-Man Movie Reviews

It's impossible to avoid the comparisons, so we may as well just get them out of the way early so we can move on. The Amazing Spider-Man — a reboot? Prequel? New chapter? It's hard to decide what to call it — is pretty much different in every way from the staggeringly successful Marvel Comics-inspired trilogy that preceded it. The basics are the same: A high school kid gets bitten by a scientifically modified spider, discovers he has newfound super powers

Yes, we know Tobey Maguire no longer plays Spider-Man... and Sam Raimi no longer directs it. So we are not looking for them (or traces of their style) in The Amazing Spider-Man. We are not even making comparisons. But then is it really all that easy to undo the effect of the Spidey potion we have been guzzling since 2002, specially now that we have Andrew Garfield donning the Spidey suit for the first time ever... and Marc Webb directing it?

We've seen it before, of course. We know he gets bitten by accident, yahoos about his powers, learns tragically about power and responsibility, and is surprisingly adept at sewing himself a spandex costume with significant embellishment. The beats aren't new, and -- this is crucial -- they shouldn't be. Watching a superhero origin story is like watching yet another cinematic troupe play out a Shakespearean saga, an analogy that Stan Lee, with his faux-Bard posturing

It's impossible to avoid the comparisons, so we may as well just get them out of the way early so we can move on. The Amazing Spider-Man — a reboot? Prequel? New chapter? It's hard to decide what to call it — is pretty much different in every way from the staggeringly successful Marvel Comics-inspired trilogy that preceded it. The basics are the same: A high school kid gets bitten by a scientifically modified spider, discovers he has newfound super powers

If Sam Raimi's 2002 Spider-Man is still fresh in your memory, there's a good chance the new reboot might feel boringly familiar. This is after all the origin story all over again - Peter Parker gets bitten, he discovers his 'spider powers', he uses them first on the school bully, then goes out in the street to fight crime, finally clashing with a fearsome villain while cops and New Yorkers look on in amazement.

Five years after the revolting Spider-Man 3, the big screen witnesses the webslinging ways of one of Marvel Comic’s most popular everyman superhero in The Amazing Spider-Man. The film steers clear of the famous origin and early antecedents that have been depicted and endlessly recounted in the character’s numerous cartoon incarnations and the vastly successful Sam Raimi franchise. Fret not, our protagonist is still the brilliant, socially awkward

It's not easy to replace a favourite memory. And so I wasn't too happy about a new Spider-Man movie. Not just because the last one (2007) was such a joke but the likelihood of seeing someone other than Tobey Maguire under Spidey's distinguished mask appeared unbearable. At the same time, I hoped like Daniel Craig in Casino Royale and, perhaps, Anne Hathaway in the upcoming The Dark Knight Rises, Andrew Garfield could co-exist with, if certainly not erase

Unlike the earlier movies, this one begins with the mysterious disappearance of Peter Parker’s parents. Peter grows up under his kind aunt May (Sally Field) and slightly strict Uncle Ben (Martin Sheen). Ever the nerd, Peter gets bullied at school and has an incurable crush on his pretty classmate Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone). One day Peter accidently discovers a bag belonging to his father and learns of his father’s connection with the scientist Dr. Curt Connors (Rhys Ifans)

First, the bad news: The Amazing Spider-Man contains a majority of the elements found in the Sam Raimi film – Peter Parker is a loser school kid in NY, Peter has the hots for his classmate, Peter gets bitten, Peter becomes Spidey, Peter overcomes the school bully, Peter loses his uncle, and Peter fights crime. There is precious little that the reboot brings to the table, some of which includes a glimpse of his parents. The good news is that The Amazing Spider-Man works

The fourth Spiderman is not the fourth instalment in the ongoing saga of the webbed superhero; it is a reboot. Which is to say, it is the same story, done with different actors, and a different director. So the crucial question is : how different it is? And the answer to that one is simple. Not enough. Calling your film ‘The Amazing Spider-man’ is like sticking a label on it, which will impel us to examine it for said amazing-ness. So while there’s much that’s good

The fourth Spiderman is not the fourth instalment in the ongoing saga of the webbed superhero; it is a reboot. Which is to say, it is the same story, done with different actors, and a different director. So the crucial question is : how different it is? And the answer to that one is simple. Not enough. Calling your film ‘The Amazing Spider-man’ is like sticking a label on it, which will impel us to examine it for said amazing-ness. So while there’s much that’s good

There are movies that make you talk in unfinished sentences. You exit the theatre, shaking your head in awe or aggravation and saying things like 'That was just so...' or 'What the effing hell...'. But as we walked out of 'The Amazing Spider-Man', we were rendered speechless, unsure of whether to curse out loud about sky-high expectations being dashed to bits, or to just let this movie slide and wait for 'The Dark Knight Rises' to make the world a better place