The Amazing Spiderman

Just a note: If you saw Sam Rami’s Spiderman, you’ve already seen this movie.  But not as stylishly done.

There’s nothing really new in this new offering.  Sony is just hemorrhaging money and the only part of the conglomerate actually cash flowing is the Spiderman franchise.  So they’ll keep making these until Samsung prepares their finishing move.

But, if you’re a fan of the 1st Spiderman movie; you’ll still love this one.  It’s like the 1st trilogy was a set of very expensive focus groups to refine what works on screen and what doesn’t concerning the web-crawler.  And some lessons have been learned.  Such as: Venom will never be a big screen bad guy.  The living costume just isn’t that visually impressive.  Classic villains are the way to go.

And Wardo from the social network and Emily Stone are more charismatic than old Toby and whatsherface.  Stone is particularly charming.  And Wardo is just funnier than Toby. So this Spiderman is funnier.  And Dennis Leary is Stones dad.  Which is always cool.

And there’s little moments of unexpected heart in the film.

So really, yes its a retread, yes there’s nothing original.  But it’s all done with flair.  It’s worth watching.  Probably a better overall movie than Avengers.  Not that it’s quite as fun as Hulk Smash; but well worth seeing.

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