The Amazing Spiderman (3D)

Plot: Amazing Spider-man revisits the Spider-man creation story with Peter as a high school student.  Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) visits his dead father's scientific collaborator, Curt Conners, (Rhys Ifans) and gets bitten by a genetically engineered spider -- and get super powers. Super powers make him more popular at school, but complicate his relationship with his favorite girl, Gwen Stacy, (Emma Stone.) Spider-man fights criminals and then fights an evil lizard man. [imdb link]    [photos]

Review: I did not think it was time to redo the Spider-man origin story again, and I was not excited about seeing it.  Happily, Amazing Spiderman is a better telling of the Spider-man origin story than the 2002 Spider-Man movie. It was better because it was more authentic and less comic. This movie is almost a romance because it spents so much time on the Gwen & Peter love story, and because the acting & dialog were so good. Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone really stepped up. All their scenes were engaging, and better than the lizard fighting scenes. To use a cliche' "they had great chemistry." 

Amazing Spiderman was a straight-forward story without campiness or comedy like James Bond or there previous Spiderman series. 

Even though the root cause of the Lizard Man was a greedy chemical company, I did like the positive roles for scientists in the movie. 

I liked the scenes of Spider-man swinging around the streetscape. It looked like so much fun to do that, and it had such energy and grace. I understand it was an animation, but I liked it. I did not think the 3D was effective. The interior scenes had almost no 3D, and the outdoor web swinging scenes did not use the 3D that well. 

Cast: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans with Sally Field, Dennis Leary and Martin Sheen

Directed by: Marc Webb -- no really his name is WEBB.  Marc grew up in Madison Wisconsin.

Rating:   3.0 stars: the talking scenes were so good. The action part of the movie was weak and not as suspenseful as it could have been. The action movie effects were competent, but not outstanding.

More: Stay for the extra scene after the first group of credits. 

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